Stockers and Order Fillers in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$31,781
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$5,059
13.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$32,705
Texas costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Texas — 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
$36,840
Kept after tax
$31,781
Worth in national money
$32,705
State rank
26
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Texas pays stockers and order fillers around $36,840 at the midpoint, 26 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against 493 occupations Texas publishes, stockers and order fillers lands at 425. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $36,840, tax leaves $31,781, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $32,705 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $38,610, since top earners drag the number up.
- For stockers and order fillers the Texas median is $36,840, ranking 26 of 51 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Within Texas, this work ranks 425 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.
- Because Texas sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for stockers and order fillers — median $36,840 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $31,781 retained, $32,705 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $38,610 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Stockers and Order Fillers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $28,870 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $36,840 |
| Top tenth earn over | $47,180 |
| This salary | $36,840 |
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 Texas | $31,781 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $31,781 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,984 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
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 | $36,840 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,555 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $36,840 as a midpoint for Texas, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $28,870 and the ninetieth is $47,180 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $31,781 take-home in Texas comes from $36,840. 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 425 of 493.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $32,705 uses one figure for the whole of Texas. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 493 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 425.
- The Texas median of $36,840 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $28,870 to $47,180. 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 $31,781, from $36,840, assumes a single Texas 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 425 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 26 of 51 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $32,705, worked from $36,840, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Texas address, on work sitting at 425 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $38,610 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $28,870 at the tenth percentile, $47,180 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $32,705.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $31,781 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like one.
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 Texas is $38,610. 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 ($28,870 to $47,180) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Texas rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Texas's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $32,705 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Texas levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $31,781 reflects the federal layer and FICA alone. Federal income tax and FICA are unchanged; states without a wage income tax generally recover revenue through consumption and property bases instead.
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.