Stockers and Order Fillers
What the pay figures show
- Washington pays stockers and order fillers the most, $44,620. It still pays the most after tax. What it does not do is stay ahead once you count what living there costs. Level that out and Wyoming wins, at $37,406. Same work. A wage that goes further.
- For stockers and order fillers, Washington leads both nominally at $44,620 and after tax — state income tax differentials are not large enough here to disturb the ordering. Regional price parity is: deflating take-home by each state's price level puts Wyoming first at $37,406. The adjustment that matters for this occupation is therefore cost of living rather than tax, which is the opposite of the assumption most relocation comparisons start from.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$37,330
People doing it
2,833,810
Highest paid
$44,620
WA
Best off, really
$37,406
WY, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$30,110
Highest tenth
$49,260
Lowest, really
$28,443
MA
States with data
51
National average
$39,540
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
90.85%
WY, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Nationally, this job pays within a fairly narrow band. Adjust for tax and for local prices and the band tightens again, to between $28,443 and $37,406. Geography is not the main lever on pay here.
- About 2,833,810 people in the country do this job. Very few jobs are this big. That is part of why its geography is worth setting out with care.
- No gaps here — all 51 jurisdictions publish a number for this job, which sits at $37,330 in the middle.
- Wages for stockers and order fillers cluster comparatively tightly across states, and the clustering strengthens after tax and price deflation — a real range of $28,443 to $37,406. Occupation-level factors such as specialisation and employer type therefore explain more of an individual's pay here than location does.
- 2,833,810 workers are employed nationally in stockers and order fillers. At this scale the occupation's wage geography is a macroeconomic fact as much as a career one, and small per-worker differentials aggregate into substantial regional flows.
- 51 jurisdictions report stockers and order fillers, giving full coverage. The extremes quoted above are therefore the true reported maximum and minimum.
Pay band: Stockers and Order Fillers
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $30,110 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $37,330 |
| Top tenth earn over | $49,260 |
| This salary | $37,330 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
Where these numbers come from
| BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates, time-series bulk download (oe.data.0.Current) | as of 2025-05-01 |
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Steps in Stockers and Order Fillers
The national median for this job
$37,330around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $30,110 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $37,330 |
| Top tenth | $49,260 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Stockers and Order Fillers, state by state
The national median for this job
51states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Mississippi · $34,270 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Washington · $44,620 |
| Spread | $10,350 |
One dot per state that publishes this job. A missing state means suppressed data, not zero pay.
Best paid, and best off
The national median for this job
| Texas pays | $36,840 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $37,911 |
Median pay against the same pay once BEA price parities are applied.
Every state, three ways
Sorted by what the money is actually worth. "Kept" is take-home for a single filer after federal, FICA and state income tax. "Really worth" divides that by the state's own price level, so a dollar in each row buys the same thing. Tap a state to put your own salary into it. States BLS does not publish for this job are absent — that means no published figure, not no work.
| State | Median pay | Kept after tax | Really worth |
|---|---|---|---|
| WY | $39,580 | $33,983 | $37,406 |
| SD | $37,650 | $32,432 | $36,815 |
| MT | $39,050 | $32,478 | $35,989 |
| ND | $36,790 | $31,741 | $35,836 |
| WA | $44,620 | $38,032 | $35,033 |
| IA | $36,640 | $30,840 | $34,742 |
| CO | $42,350 | $35,053 | $34,575 |
| OH | $37,130 | $31,709 | $34,537 |
| AK | $40,310 | $34,569 | $33,986 |
| ID | $37,310 | $31,034 | $33,945 |
| KY | $36,810 | $30,586 | $33,809 |
| AR | $34,700 | $29,236 | $33,796 |
| TN | $36,140 | $31,218 | $33,744 |
| MO | $36,710 | $30,888 | $33,661 |
| NM | $35,830 | $30,396 | $33,629 |
| NE | $35,920 | $30,111 | $33,317 |
| NV | $37,380 | $32,215 | $33,218 |
| LA | $34,490 | $29,244 | $33,102 |
| SC | $36,020 | $30,704 | $32,952 |
| OK | $34,790 | $29,069 | $32,926 |
| IN | $36,250 | $30,267 | $32,833 |
| TX | $36,840 | $31,781 | $32,705 |
| MS | $34,270 | $28,437 | $32,577 |
| UT | $37,690 | $30,787 | $32,406 |
| WV | $34,510 | $29,039 | $32,347 |
| OR | $43,480 | $33,862 | $32,335 |
| CT | $40,590 | $33,398 | $32,209 |
| KS | $35,450 | $28,975 | $32,206 |
| VT | $37,130 | $31,026 | $32,107 |
| NC | $35,950 | $30,140 | $32,017 |
| CA | $42,870 | $35,776 | $31,778 |
| ME | $37,220 | $30,838 | $31,760 |
| WI | $35,000 | $29,430 | $31,613 |
| MI | $35,930 | $29,773 | $31,612 |
| AL | $34,290 | $28,283 | $31,436 |
| AZ | $37,500 | $31,776 | $31,429 |
| MN | $37,120 | $30,839 | $31,335 |
| PA | $36,640 | $30,495 | $31,277 |
| IL | $37,680 | $30,736 | $31,092 |
| DE | $37,420 | $30,737 | $30,968 |
| GA | $35,620 | $29,622 | $30,633 |
| FL | $36,400 | $31,427 | $30,379 |
| NH | $36,780 | $31,733 | $30,123 |
| RI | $36,470 | $30,536 | $30,111 |
| VA | $36,380 | $30,080 | $29,856 |
| MD | $37,690 | $31,037 | $29,854 |
| NY | $39,030 | $32,030 | $29,760 |
| DC | $39,640 | $32,818 | $29,618 |
| HI | $39,300 | $32,157 | $29,608 |
| NJ | $37,250 | $31,524 | $28,952 |
| MA | $37,540 | $30,786 | $28,443 |
Sources and assumptions
- These are middle-of-the-range figures for stockers and order fillers, not what a new starter is offered. Half the people doing this job earn under $37,330 nationally, half over. Your own experience and employer will move you well away from that midpoint in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, nothing paid into a pension before tax — that is the household behind every take-home figure for stockers and order fillers. It is the simplest case on purpose, so the states can be compared against each other rather than against each other's family circumstances. City income taxes are not counted. On that household, Washington keeps the most at $38,032.
- Levelling out prices for stockers and order fillers is done with one number per state, which is a simplification. Living costs inside a state vary a lot between its cities and its countryside. The comparison shows which way the ranking moves, not an exact figure for any address — Massachusetts sits at the bottom on $28,443.
- All wage figures for stockers and order fillers are medians rather than entry or offer rates; the national median is $37,330. Within-state dispersion typically exceeds between-state dispersion in this data, so an individual's expected wage is determined more by experience, sector and employer than by the state comparisons presented here.
- The household modeled for stockers and order fillers is a single filer, standard deduction, no dependants, no pre-tax contributions. Holding the household constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful; it also means the absolute figures overstate liability for most real filers. On that basis Washington retains the most, $38,032. Municipal and school-district income taxes are not included in any state.
- The price deflation applied to stockers and order fillers uses state-level parities. Within-state dispersion in price level, concentrated in housing, is large enough that a state figure describes no particular locality well; the bottom of this occupation's real range is Massachusetts at $28,443. The comparison establishes the direction and rough magnitude of the reordering rather than an address-level result — Massachusetts anchors the bottom at $28,443 — and the two source series are dated independently.