Stockers and Order Fillers in New York
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$32,030
after federal, FICA and New York tax
Tax takes
$7,000
17.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$29,760
New York costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in New York — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$39,030
Kept after tax
$32,030
Worth in national money
$29,760
State rank
11
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for stockers and order fillers is strong here. New York's middle earner gets $39,030, putting the state 11 of 51 — about 4.55% ahead of the national figure.
- Against 493 occupations New York publishes, stockers and order fillers lands at 458. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- The wage here flatters the reality. From $39,030 the take-home is $32,030. But New York costs more than the national average, so that money behaves more like $29,760 would elsewhere. Worth knowing before comparing offers across states. The average is higher, $42,430, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For stockers and order fillers, New York sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $39,030, ranking 11 of 51 and running about 4.55% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Within New York, this work ranks 458 of 493 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Retained pay after federal, FICA and New York income tax is $32,030 for stockers and order fillers, from $39,030. The state's price level exceeds the national average, so the price-adjusted equivalent is $29,760. ⚠️ This is purchasing power and not a wage; cross-state offer comparisons that stop at the nominal figure systematically overvalue high-cost states. The mean of $42,430 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Stockers and Order Fillers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $34,130 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $39,030 |
| Top tenth earn over | $56,850 |
| This salary | $39,030 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in New York | $32,030 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $33,541 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,755 |
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $37,150 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,751 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 108 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $39,030 as a midpoint for New York, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $34,130 and the ninetieth is $56,850 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $32,030 take-home in New York comes from $39,030. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 458 of 493.
- Two cautions on $29,760, the adjusted value of that $39,030 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of New York. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 458 of 493 locally.
- The New York median of $39,030 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $34,130 to $56,850. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $32,030, from $39,030, assumes a single New York filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 458 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 11 of 51 for it.
- This $29,760 adjusted figure, worked from $39,030, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 458 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 458 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $42,430, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $34,130 at the bottom tenth to $56,850 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. New York costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $29,760 rather than its face figure.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and New York's own levy, $32,030 remains.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in New York is $42,430. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($34,130 to $56,850) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to New York rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
New York's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $29,760 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $32,030 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and New York income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.