Stocker job description
106 verified openings in Warehouse Associate
Nine percent growth through 2035 makes stockers and order fillers the one warehouse occupation BLS projects to grow quickly, from a 2025 base of 2,804,300 jobs. The work is receiving and unpacking merchandise, shelving and rotating stock, keeping the backroom and the sales floor orderly, and filling orders. Pay stood at a median of $37,330 for May 2025, from $30,110 at the tenth percentile to $49,260 at the ninetieth. BLS counts both titles inside one occupation, which is why the order picker page here shows this median too.
Core Duties and Responsibilities
Completing order receipts comes first, and answering customers' questions and advising them on what to buy comes second, which is the clearest line between a store stocker and a distribution center picker. Stocking shelves, racks, cases, bins, and tables comes next, with receiving, unloading, unpacking, and issuing sales floor merchandise, counting stock in and recording it by hand or on a computer, and changing price tags against a price list. Computing prices and checking invoices against what actually arrived sit on the supplemental list.
Common Skills and Technologies
Customers and coworkers interrupt all shift, which is why the skills here are conversational rather than mechanical: listening first, then reading, speaking, monitoring, social perceptiveness, and service orientation. The software is standard desktop and enterprise stuff, SAP with the Microsoft set around it, plus inventory management and supply chain tools further down.
Education, Training, and Career Path
Job Zone Two, no formal credential required, and training given at the shelf in short order. Of the people surveyed, 57 percent set the entry bar at high school, 30 percent at college coursework, and 8 percent below a finished diploma; the handful left over named a two-year degree or a certificate. More than a third of the wider hand laborers and material movers group works in retail trade, which is why so much stocking runs overnight or before a store opens, while distribution centers run it around the clock.
Sources: O*NET 30.0, 53-7065.00 Stockers and Order Fillers, https://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/53-7065.00. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, 53-7065, https://www.bls.gov/oes/tables.htm. BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, Hand Laborers and Material Movers, https://www.bls.gov/ooh/transportation-and-material-moving/hand-laborers-and-material-movers.htm.