Warehouse Associate job description

Warehouse associate is the general floor title in a distribution center: unloading trailers, putting stock away, picking and packing orders, cycle counting, staging outbound freight, and running a pallet jack or a lift once certified for it. It is a title rather than a BLS occupation, and postings under it land across codes that together held 6,917,800 jobs in 2025 at $38,220 a year in the May 2025 wage survey, or $18.38 an hour, spanning $30,190 to $52,340 across the middle eight tenths of the field. Retail trade employs 35 percent of that group and transportation and warehousing 22 percent. Entry takes no formal credential and training runs a month or less.