Stockers and Order Fillers in Wisconsin
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$29,430
after federal, FICA and Wisconsin tax
Tax takes
$5,570
15.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$31,613
Wisconsin costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Wisconsin — 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
$35,000
Kept after tax
$29,430
Worth in national money
$31,613
State rank
45
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for stockers and order fillers is on the low side in Wisconsin. The middle earner gets $35,000. That is 45 of 51 states, and about 6.24% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 491 occupations Wisconsin publishes, stockers and order fillers lands at 465. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $35,000 you keep $29,430 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $31,613 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $37,270, since top earners drag the number up.
- For stockers and order fillers, Wisconsin sits in the lower band at $35,000, ranking 45 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 6.24%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Wisconsin, this work ranks 465 of 491 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 in Wisconsin is $29,430 after the full tax stack, from $35,000. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $31,613 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $37,270 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 | $29,280 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $35,000 |
| Top tenth earn over | $48,400 |
| This salary | $35,000 |
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 Wisconsin | $29,430 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $30,303 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$429 |
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 | $33,914 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$519 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 93 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of stockers and order fillers in Wisconsin earn under $35,000 and half over. The published range runs $29,280 at the tenth percentile to $48,400 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Wisconsin's $29,430, worked from $35,000. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 465 of 491.
- Two cautions on $31,613, the adjusted value of that $35,000 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Wisconsin. 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 465 of 491 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for stockers and order fillers in Wisconsin, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $29,280 to $48,400; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- The Wisconsin take-home of $29,430, on $35,000 for work ranking 465 of 491 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 465 of 491 in the state.
- This $31,613 adjusted figure, worked from $35,000, 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 465 of 491 in the state. The occupation ranks 465 of 491 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 $37,270, 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?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $29,280 at the tenth percentile, $48,400 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 $31,613.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Wisconsin adds its own income tax on top — which is why $29,430 of this wage survives to your account.
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 Wisconsin is $37,270. 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 ($29,280 to $48,400) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Wisconsin rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Wisconsin'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 $31,613 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $29,430 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Wisconsin 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.