Stockers and Order Fillers
SOC 53-7065 · 2024-2034
Receive, store, and issue merchandise, materials, equipment, and other items from stockroom, warehouse, or storage yard to fill shelves, racks, tables, or customers' orders. May operate power equipment to fill orders. May mark prices on merchandise and set up sales displays.
How the U.S. Department of Labor describes this work. Published in English only.
The job this trains for
- Typical pay in California
- $43,808per year
- Projected openings
- 565,760
- Projected change
- +15.5%
- Usually needs
- No formal educational credential
Bright Outlook — a U.S. Department of Labor designation
Rapid Growth · Numerous Job Openings
The Department's own designation, made from its national projections. It is not this project's assessment and it is not California's: every other figure on this page comes from California's projection, which can point the other way and for some occupations does.
Skills this work uses most
O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, rates how important each of these is to this work, and they are listed in that order, most important first. The ratings themselves are not shown, because the data carries the number without the scale it was measured on. The names are as published, in English.
- Active Listening
- Reading Comprehension
- Speaking
- Service Orientation
- Monitoring
- Social Perceptiveness
Pay by region
| Region | Typical pay in California | Projected openings |
|---|---|---|
| San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties) | $46,002 | 19,200 |
| Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties) | $45,821 | 28,440 |
| San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties) | $45,603 | 15,810 |
| San Rafael MD (Marin County) | $45,223 | 2,880 |
| Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County) | $42,847 | 5,070 |
| Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County) | $42,540 | 13,120 |
| Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties) | $41,505 | 1,710 |
| Napa MSA (Napa County) | $41,474 | 1,830 |
| Vallejo MSA (Solano County) | $41,085 | 4,620 |
| Visalia MSA (Tulare County) | $40,686 | 5,820 |
| Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties) | $40,266 | 74,650 |
| Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties) | $40,122 | 29,670 |
| El Centro MSA (Imperial County) | $40,081 | 2,260 |
| Chico MSA (Butte County) | $39,733 | 2,150 |
| Hanford-Corcoran MSA (Kings County) | $39,702 | 1,410 |
| San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County) | $39,631 | 37,520 |
| Merced MSA (Merced County) | $39,620 | 2,930 |
| Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County) | $39,620 | 6,240 |
| Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County) | $39,538 | 43,830 |
| San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County) | $39,538 | 3,090 |
| North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties) | $39,354 | 3,210 |
| Redding MSA (Shasta County) | $39,344 | 2,120 |
| Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County) | $39,312 | 116,580 |
| Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County) | $39,303 | 10,460 |
| Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties) | $39,067 | 14,180 |
| Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County) | $38,780 | 2,530 |
| Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County) | $38,647 | 8,740 |
| Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties) | $38,545 | 1,640 |
| North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties) | $38,514 | 3,110 |
| Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County) | $38,442 | 4,720 |
Similar work
O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, names these as occupations involving work similar to this one — its own reading of the job, not a grouping by code. They keep O*NET's order, and only those California publishes a projection for are shown.
| The job this trains for | Typical pay in California | Projected openings | Projected change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks | $47,621 | 75,500 | -5.2% |
| Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand | $45,689 | 502,850 | +8.6% |
| Counter and Rental Clerks | $45,420 | 77,120 | +3.2% |
| Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping | $46,812 | 8,760 | +1.3% |
| Retail Salespersons | $38,790 | 549,460 | -1.3% |
| Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators | $60,898 | 6,950 | -11% |
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