Career
Stockers and order fillers
Keep shelves stocked and orders filled.
$37,330
Median pay
+8.9%
Job growth, 2025–35
430,700
Openings a year
No formal educational credential
Typical education
None required
Typical time after high school
Here's what you actually need to know.
The work
What people in this job do
- 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.
The outlook
How the forecast changed this year
The deeper question
What kind of person does this path ask you to become?
What this work centers on
O*NET interest profile, scored 1–7.
The work
Do you want most of your days spent on information & systems, then objects & tools?
Responsibility
Are you willing to be the one responsible for this?
“Take inventory or examine merchandise to identify items to be reordered or replenished.”
Development
What would you need to build over the next 5–10 years?
Active Listening, Reading Comprehension, Speaking, Service Orientation.
Trade-offs
What does it ask of you in exchange?
No degree beyond high school, though short-term on-the-job training is typical, for a median of $37,330 a year and 430,700 openings nationally each year.
Paths in
Degrees that lead here
- NO MATCHCIP 99.9999
Paths across
Careers that use similar skills
- Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks$45,260 · -7.6%
- Counter and Rental Clerks$41,300 · +3.0%
- Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping$46,380 · -4.8%
- Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand$40,240 · +1.8%
- Retail Salespersons$35,410 · -0.3%
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Sources
- BLS Employment Projections, 2025–35, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
- BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34 (archived), U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
- O*NET 31.0 Database (August 2026), National Center for O*NET Development / U.S. Department of Labor. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
- CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 Crosswalk, NCES and BLS. Retrieved 2026-10-01.