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Stockers and Order Fillers — Career Decision Dashboard

United States

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Median annual wage

$37,330

United States, 2025

Employment

2,833,810

United States, 2025

Typical education

Not recorded

Job Zone 2

Skills identified

35

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Career overview

Receive, store, and issue merchandise, materials, equipment, and other items from stockroom, warehouse, or storage yard to fill shelves, racks, tables, or customers' orders. May operate power equipment to fill orders. May mark prices on merchandise and set up sales displays.

O*NET code
53-7065.00
Job zone
2
Experience required
None

Typical tasks

  • Take inventory or examine merchandise to identify items to be reordered or replenished.
  • Answer customers' questions about merchandise and advise customers on merchandise selection.
  • Receive and count stock items, and record data manually or on computer.
  • Receive, unload, open, unpack, or issue sales floor merchandise.
  • Stock shelves, racks, cases, bins, and tables with new or transferred merchandise.
  • Pack and unpack items to be stocked on shelves in stockrooms, warehouses, or storage yards.
  • Mark stock items, using identification tags, stamps, electric marking tools, or other labeling equipment.
  • Store items in an orderly and accessible manner in warehouses, tool rooms, supply rooms, or other areas.

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Salary analysis — United States

$30,110
10th
$34,450
25th
$37,330
Median
$44,650
75th
$49,260
90th

10th percentile

$30,110

25th percentile

$34,450

75th percentile

$44,650

90th percentile

$49,260

Most important skills

  • Active Listening3.1
  • Reading Comprehension3.0
  • Speaking2.8
  • Coordination2.8
  • Service Orientation2.8
  • Critical Thinking2.8
  • Social Perceptiveness2.8
  • Writing2.6
  • Judgment and Decision Making2.6
  • Monitoring2.6
  • Time Management2.6
  • Complex Problem Solving2.3

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Select the skills you already have

Skills listed are those O*NET rates at importance 3.0 or above for this occupation. Set your own level on the same 0–7 O*NET scale.

Skill coverage

0%

0 of 2 identified skills

Matched

0

Missing

2

Your selected skills cover approximately 0% of the skills identified for this occupation in O*NET. This is a coverage measure of listed skills only — it is not a qualification, hiring or interview outcome.

Skills to develop

SkillImportanceRequired levelYour levelGap
Active Listening3.13.0Not selected3.0
Reading Comprehension3.02.9Not selected2.9

Ordered by required level gap multiplied by O*NET importance. No prediction or recommendation is implied.

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How salary varies by location

LocationMedianEmploymentYear
Cheyenne, WY$46,9001,7202025
Seattle, WA$46,83030,8602025
Kenosha, WI$46,0302,5302025
Bend, OR$45,8401,8702025
Bozeman, MT$45,5201,3402025
San Francisco, CA$45,13026,6102025
Boulder, CO$45,0102,2302025
San Jose, CA$44,97010,6102025
WA$44,62057,3702025
Greeley, CO$44,5601,6702025
Denver, CO$44,48032,6102025
Portland, OR$44,44026,7502025
Vallejo, CA$44,3002,8602025
Mount Vernon, WA$44,3009002025
Stockton, CA$44,2202025
Bremerton, WA$44,1401,6902025
Olympia, WA$44,0702,4502025
New Haven, CT$43,8409,4302025
OR$43,48042,6902025
Sacramento, CA$43,20017,8702025
All locations with published data

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Career and skills data: O*NET 31.0.

Salary and employment data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, 2025 (May 2025 release).

Figures are periodic published survey snapshots, not real-time market rates.