Shipping and Receiving Clerk job description

High school is the typical education on the way in, and the desk sits inside the warehouse rather than away from it. Shipping, receiving, and inventory clerks check inbound loads against packing slips, record damage and shortages, enter receipts into the system, build and label outbound shipments, book carrier pickups, and keep the inventory record in agreement with the floor. BLS counted 827,700 clerks in 2025 and reported May 2025 median pay of $45,260. Scanning and RFID have absorbed much of the manual recordkeeping, which is why BLS projects an 8 percent decline for the occupation to 2035 even while about 98,600 material recording clerk openings a year are expected.