Stockers and Order Fillers salary in the US

Here is where pay for stockers and order fillers stands nationally, built from Census microdata rather than job-board postings.

How much do stockers and order fillers earn?

If you lined up all stockers and order fillers by pay, the person in the middle would earn about $30,458 a year — 42% less than the $52,508 median for all US earners aged 25 and older. Of the 171 occupation groups in our data, just 24 have a lower median. Behind these numbers are 58,245 survey records — a large enough sample to break the results down further below.

Stockers and Order Fillers: annual earnings thresholds (nationwide)
Position	Annual earnings
Top 10% start at	$59,662
Top 25% start at	$42,453
Median (top 50%)	$30,458
Bottom 25% earn below	$16,758

How wide is the pay range?

A worker earning $42,453 would already be in the top quarter of stockers and order fillers; the top 10% begins around $59,662, 2.0 times the midpoint. The bottom quarter earned under $16,758; that group includes people who worked part of the year or reduced hours, since every earner is counted. Put differently, the middle earner makes 1.8× what someone at the 25th percentile does.

Earnings by age

Typical pay rises 19% between the 25–34 and 45–54 age groups, topping out at $33,516. Among those 65 and older who still work, the median is $20,989, 37% below the peak — reduced schedules explain much of that.

25–34

$28,106

35–44

$31,484

45–54

$33,516

55–64

$33,516

65+

$20,989

Men and women

There is a 12% gap at the median: $31,772 for men and $27,930 for women. About 41% of the sampled workers are women, going by raw survey counts. Because these are annual totals, more part-time work in one group widens the gap; the survey doesn't adjust for that.

Group	Median earnings	Survey records
Men	$31,772	34,613
Women	$27,930	23,632

Does education change the pay?

The spread by education is moderate — 29% between workers with a doctorate ($24,410) and those with a bachelor's degree ($31,484). Most workers surveyed in this job have a high school education or less (32,143 records); any level under 100 records is blank in the table.

Education	Median earnings	Survey records
High school or less	$29,831	32,143
Some college / associate	$31,024	18,573
Bachelor's	$31,484	6,173
Master's	$30,458	1,109
Professional degree	$29,472	143
Doctorate	$24,410	104

Where the most work, and what they earn there

The five states with the most stockers and order fillers in the survey are California, Texas, Florida, New York, and Pennsylvania. Pay differs noticeably even across these five: $32,743 in California versus $28,336 in Florida. These are nominal dollars — living costs differ just as much between states and aren't adjusted for. 50 states have enough records (100+) for their own figure.

State	Median earnings	Survey records
California	$32,743	6,450
Texas	$30,550	5,028
Florida	$28,336	3,503
New York	$30,458	2,665
Pennsylvania	$30,458	2,581

Occupations with similar pay

For comparison, these jobs have medians within a few thousand dollars: bartenders ($29,831), preschool and kindergarten teachers ($31,484), landscaping and groundskeeping workers ($29,328), and cleaners of vehicles and equipment ($29,328). Similar pay doesn't mean similar work — training, hours and risk differ — but it's a useful reference when weighing a move.

Occupation	Median earnings	vs. this job
Bartenders	$29,831	−2%
Preschool and Kindergarten Teachers	$31,484	+3%
Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers	$29,328	−4%
Cleaners Of Vehicles And Equipment	$29,328	−4%
Packers And Packagers, Hand	$29,328	−4%

About these figures

A note on definitions: figures cover everyone 25+ with earnings in this occupation over 2020–2024, inflation-adjusted to 2024, full-time or not. Medians are weighted to the US population; suppressed cells are those under 100 records. The occupation total is 58,245 records.

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Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-Year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) — personal earnings (PERNP) in 2024 dollars, person-weighted

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