# Stockers and Order Fillers

US SOC code 53-7065. Markdown version of https://futurehistory.earth/timeline/53-7065

Also called: Stocker, Order filler, Retail stock associate, Stock clerk, Warehouse picker.

## In brief

In May 2025, [BLS](https://www.bls.gov/oes/special-requests/oesm25nat.zip) counted **2,833,810** US stockers and order fillers, with median pay of **$37,330** a year. Of the BLS counts since 2021, the highest was **2,872,680**, in May 2023, close to the May 2025 count. The earliest figure here is [an estimate](https://usa.ipums.org/usa/volii/9050occup.shtml) of **80,000** from 1890, not measured the same way as today's count. The last full technology era for stockers and order fillers: Amazon Kiva acquisition + Walmart Bossa Nova pilot, 2012 to 2020. The Walmart Bossa Nova termination in retail is the canonical counter-example to automatic displacement: human workers proved more flexible in ambiguous physical environments.

## What the sources say

### Official outlook

BLS projects employment to grow 8.9% from 2025 to 2035. Source: [BLS Employment Projections 2025-35](https://data.bls.gov/projections/nationalMatrix?queryParams=53-7065&ioType=o).

### AI exposure studies

- **19.1%** of this job's tasks are exposed to large language models. Not a forecast of job losses. [Eloundou and others, 2023](https://github.com/openai/GPTs-are-GPTs/blob/main/data/occ_level.csv)
- **0.64** estimated probability that the whole occupation could be computerised, over an unspecified number of years. Not a forecast of job losses. [Frey and Osborne, 2013](https://oms-www.files.svdcdn.com/production/downloads/academic/The_Future_of_Employment.pdf)

Data as of BLS OEWS May 2025; BLS Employment Projections 2025-35. BLS publishes these counts as yearly survey snapshots and cautions against reading them as a precise trend.

## Stockers and Order Fillers employment and pay by year

- On record since: 1859
- Latest US employment: 2,833,810 (May 2025). Source: BLS OEWS May 2025 [6]
- Latest US median pay: $37,330 (May 2025). Source: BLS OEWS May 2025 [17]
- Outlook: +8.9% by 2035. Source: BLS Employment Projections 2025-35 [36]

### In other countries

The latest figure each country's statistics agency publishes for this job. Each uses its own occupation definition, survey basis and currency, so the numbers are not directly comparable with each other or with the US figures.

- **Canada** (NOC 65102)
  - Employment, 2020: 225,115. Source: Statistics Canada Census 2021 [9]. Statistics Canada Census of Population 2021: number of persons with employment income in NOC 65102 Store shelf stockers, clerks and order fillers, Canada, reference year 2020. A recipients basis (anyone with employment income during the year), slightly broader than a point-in-time employed count. Statistics Canada Open Licence.
  - Median pay, 2020: C$34,800. Source: Statistics Canada Census 2021 [20]. Statistics Canada Census of Population 2021 (Table 98-10-0586): median employment income for NOC 65102 Store shelf stockers, clerks and order fillers, Canada, reference year 2020, full-year full-time workers (the basis comparable to the US OEWS full-time median). Statistics Canada Open Licence.
- **United Kingdom** (UK SOC 9252)
  - Employment, 2025: 463,000. Source: ONS ASHE 2025 [13]. ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (Table 14): employee jobs in Shelf fillers and warehouse/storage operatives, United Kingdom, 2025, taken as the sum of the cited cells for SOC 9241 + 9252 (ASHE "number of jobs", thousands x1000; excludes self-employment). Open Government Licence v3.0.
  - Median pay, 2025: £26,574. Source: ONS ASHE 2025 [24]. ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (Table 14.7a): median gross annual pay for the dominant constituent group, SOC 9252, within the combined Shelf fillers and warehouse/storage operatives (SOC 9241 + 9252), United Kingdom, 2025. Wages are the cited median of the largest constituent group, not a blend. Open Government Licence v3.0.
- **Australia** (ANZSCO 7411)
  - Employment, 2025: 163,400. Source: ABS Labour Force Survey [14]. ABS Labour Force Survey (Detailed), table EQ08: employed persons in ANZSCO 7411 Storepersons, national (summed across sex and state/territory), annual average of 4 quarterly estimates.
  - Median pay, 2025: A$69,056. Source: ABS Employee Earnings May 2025 [25]. Annualised (x52) from A$1,328 median weekly earnings. ABS Survey of Employee Earnings and Hours, May 2025: median pay for full-time non-managerial employees paid at the adult rate, before tax. Surfaced via the Jobs and Skills Australia occupation profile.

### All 16 years of cited US data

| Year | US employment | Annual pay (median unless marked) | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1890 | 80,000 (estimate) | n/a | Est., IPUMS USA [1] |
| 1920 | 200,000 (estimate) | n/a | Est., A&P Company history [2] |
| 1950 | 500,000 (estimate) | n/a | Est., US Bureau of the Census [3] |
| 1970 | n/a | $4,200 (estimate) | Est., BLS Historical Wage Data [15] |
| 1974 | 850,000 (estimate) | n/a | Est., Smithsonian National Museum of American… [4] |
| 1990 | 1,500,000 (estimate) | $11,500 (estimate) | Est., Walmart Corporate History (employment) [2]; Est., BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook (pay) [16] |
| 2000 | 2,000,000 (estimate) | n/a | Est., BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook [5] |
| 2010 | n/a | $21,200 (estimate) | Est., BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook [16] |
| 2012 | 2,300,000 (estimate) | n/a | Est., BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook [5] |
| 2019 | 2,135,850 | $27,380 | BLS OEWS May 2019 [6] |
| 2020 | 2,210,960 | $29,190 | BLS OEWS May 2020 [6] |
| 2021 | 2,451,430 | $30,110 | BLS OEWS May 2021 [6] |
| 2022 | 2,842,060 | $34,220 | BLS OEWS May 2022 [6] |
| 2023 | 2,872,680 | $36,390 | BLS OEWS May 2023 [6] |
| 2024 | 2,779,530 | $37,090 | BLS OEWS May 2024 [6] |
| 2025 | 2,833,810 | $37,330 | BLS OEWS May 2025 [6] |

## Sources (81)

### Employment series

1. [IPUMS USA — 1890 Census occupational categories; A&P chain store history (founded 1859, ~200 stores by 1900); retail sector growth context](https://usa.ipums.org/usa/volii/9050occup.shtml), IPUMS / University of Minnesota
2. [A&P Company history — chain store expansion: 4,600 stores by 1920; Piggly Wiggly self-service grocery (1916) impact on shelf-stocking importance](https://corporate.walmart.com/about/history), Walmart Inc. (context source for chain retail era)
3. [US Bureau of the Census — 1950 Census occupational data; "stock clerks and storekeepers" combined category; retail trade employment series](https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1953/dec/population-vol-04.html), US Bureau of the Census
4. [Smithsonian National Museum of American History — UPC barcode first scan June 26, 1974 (Marsh supermarket, Troy, Ohio); retail employment context](https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1394024), Smithsonian National Museum of American History
5. [BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook — Stockers and Order Fillers (OOH current page, historical employment context circa 2000)](https://www.bls.gov/ooh/transportation-and-material-moving/stockers-and-order-fillers.htm), Bureau of Labor Statistics
6. BLS OEWS, national cross-industry estimates (flat file), Bureau of Labor Statistics. Editions: [2019](https://www.bls.gov/oes/special-requests/oesm19nat.zip), [2020](https://www.bls.gov/oes/special-requests/oesm20nat.zip), [2021](https://www.bls.gov/oes/special-requests/oesm21nat.zip), [2022](https://www.bls.gov/oes/special-requests/oesm22nat.zip), [2023](https://www.bls.gov/oes/special-requests/oesm23nat.zip), [2024](https://www.bls.gov/oes/special-requests/oesm24nat.zip), [2025](https://www.bls.gov/oes/special-requests/oesm25nat.zip)
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14. [ABS: Labour Force, Australia, Detailed, table EQ08 (Employed persons by Occupation unit group, ANZSCO 2013), latest release](https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/employment-and-unemployment/labour-force-australia-detailed/latest-release), Australian Bureau of Statistics

### Wage series

15. [BLS Historical Wage Data — general retail/stockroom worker wage context circa 1970; inflation adjustment via BLS CPI-U calculator (1970 to 2024)](https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm), Bureau of Labor Statistics
16. [BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook — Stock clerks (1990 edition, wage context); inflation adjustment via BLS CPI-U calculator (1990 to 2024)](https://www.bls.gov/ooh/transportation-and-material-moving/stockers-and-order-fillers.htm), Bureau of Labor Statistics
17. BLS OEWS, national cross-industry estimates (flat file), Bureau of Labor Statistics. Editions: [2019](https://www.bls.gov/oes/special-requests/oesm19nat.zip), [2020](https://www.bls.gov/oes/special-requests/oesm20nat.zip), [2021](https://www.bls.gov/oes/special-requests/oesm21nat.zip), [2022](https://www.bls.gov/oes/special-requests/oesm22nat.zip), [2023](https://www.bls.gov/oes/special-requests/oesm23nat.zip), [2024](https://www.bls.gov/oes/special-requests/oesm24nat.zip), [2025](https://www.bls.gov/oes/special-requests/oesm25nat.zip)
18. [Statistics Canada, Census of Population 2006, Table 97-563-XCB2006069 (Wage and salary statistics by occupation, NOC-S 2006), income reference year 2005](https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/dp-pd/tbt/Rp-eng.cfm?LANG=E&PID=96285), Statistics Canada
19. [Statistics Canada, Census of Population 2016, Table 98-400-X2016356 (Occupation by employment income statistics, NOC 2016), income reference year 2015](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/catalogue/98-400-X2016356), Statistics Canada
20. [Statistics Canada, Census of Population 2021, Table 98-10-0586 (Employment income statistics by occupation unit group, NOC 2021), income reference year 2020](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=9810058601), Statistics Canada
21. ONS: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Table 14.7a (Annual pay - Gross), 4-digit SOC 9149, United Kingdom. Office for National Statistics, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Table 14. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0., Office for National Statistics. Editions: [2002](https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datasets/occupation4digitsoc2010ashetable14/2002/2002-table-14.zip), [2006](https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datasets/occupation4digitsoc2010ashetable14/2006consistentw_007methodology/2006-table-14.zip), [2010](https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datasets/occupation4digitsoc2010ashetable14/2010revised/2010-revised-table-14.zip)
22. ONS: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Table 14.7a (Annual pay - Gross), 4-digit SOC 9260, United Kingdom. Office for National Statistics, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Table 14. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0., Office for National Statistics. Editions: [2011](https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datasets/occupation4digitsoc2010ashetable14/2011revisedbasedonsoc2010/2011-revised-table-14.zip), [2015](https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datasets/occupation4digitsoc2010ashetable14/2015/table142015revised.zip), [2020](https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datasets/occupation4digitsoc2010ashetable14/2020revised/table142020revised.zip)
23. [ONS: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Table 14.7a (Annual pay - Gross), 4-digit SOC 9252, United Kingdom, 2022. Office for National Statistics, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Table 14. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.](https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datasets/occupation4digitsoc2010ashetable14/2022revised/ashetable142022revised.zip), Office for National Statistics
24. [ONS: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Table 14.7a (Annual pay - Gross), 4-digit SOC 9252, United Kingdom, 2025. Office for National Statistics, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Table 14. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.](https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datasets/occupation4digitsoc2010ashetable14/2025provisional/ashetable142025provisional.zip), Office for National Statistics
25. [Jobs and Skills Australia: Storepersons (ABS Survey of Employee Earnings and Hours, May 2025)](https://www.jobsandskills.gov.au/data/occupation-and-industry-profiles/occupations/7411-storepersons), Jobs and Skills Australia / Australian Bureau of Statistics

### Tool eras

26. [A&P Company history — Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company founded 1859; chain store model creating systematic restocking roles](https://corporate.walmart.com/about/history), Walmart Inc. (context reference for chain retail era history)
27. [Wikipedia — Sears, Roebuck and Company Complex (North Lawndale, Chicago; 1906-1908 mail-order campus; designated National Historic Landmark 1978; world's largest commercial building at completion; prototype fulfillment center)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears,_Roebuck_and_Company_Complex), Wikipedia
28. [Smithsonian National Museum of American History — Piggly Wiggly self-service grocery (1916, Clarence Saunders, Memphis, Tennessee)](https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1394024), Smithsonian National Museum of American History
29. [US Bureau of the Census — 1950 Census: retail trade employment, "stock clerks and storekeepers" category growth](https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1953/dec/population-vol-04.html), US Bureau of the Census
30. [US Census Bureau — Annual Retail Trade Survey e-commerce data; e-commerce sales $87B (2005) to $168B (2010)](https://www.census.gov/retail/ecommerce.html), US Census Bureau
31. [BLS National Employment Matrix — 53-7065 Stockers and Order Fillers (2024 National Employment Matrix; retail trade vs. e-commerce share context)](https://data.bls.gov/projections/nationalMatrix?queryParams=53-7065&ioType=o), Bureau of Labor Statistics
32. [Amazon press — Kiva Systems acquisition announcement (March 19, 2012; $775M acquisition price; autonomous mobile robots for goods-to-person fulfillment)](https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazoncom-acquire-kiva-systems-inc/), Amazon
33. [Ocado Group — Ocado Smart Platform: 13 grocery partners globally, 25 live sites, 99.4% order accuracy (Kroger US partnership announced May 2018)](https://www.ocadogroup.com/our-solutions/ocado-smart-platform), Ocado Group
34. [US Census Bureau — Quarterly E-Commerce Sales: Q2 2020 +44.5% year-over-year (largest single-quarter gain in the data series)](https://www.census.gov/retail/mrts/www/data/pdf/ec_current.pdf), US Census Bureau
35. [Symbotic — Autonomous case-handling robotics for wholesale distribution; Walmart DC deployment; IPO 2022 ($5.5B valuation)](https://www.symbotic.com/solutions/), Symbotic

### Forecasts and exposure studies

36. [BLS Employment Projections 2025-35, National Employment Matrix: 53-7065 Stockers and order fillers (2025: 2,804.3 thousand; 2035: 3,055.0 thousand; +8.9%)](https://data.bls.gov/projections/nationalMatrix?queryParams=53-7065&ioType=o), Bureau of Labor Statistics
37. [Frey & Osborne (2013), "The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerisation?", Appendix (SOC 43-5081 Stock Clerks and Order Fillers: probability 0.64, rank 354 of 702)](https://oms-www.files.svdcdn.com/production/downloads/academic/The_Future_of_Employment.pdf), Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
38. [Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin & Rock (2023), "GPTs are GPTs", occupation-level exposure data occ\_level.csv (O\*NET-SOC 53-7065.00, human-rated β 0.191)](https://github.com/openai/GPTs-are-GPTs/blob/main/data/occ_level.csv), OpenAI

### Historical notes

39. [A&P Company history — Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company founded 1859; chain store expansion creating systematic restocking roles](https://corporate.walmart.com/about/history), Walmart Inc. (context reference for chain retail era history)
40. [Wikipedia — Sears, Roebuck and Company Complex (North Lawndale, Chicago; 1906-1908 mail-order campus; world's largest commercial building at completion; catalog fulfillment prototype)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears,_Roebuck_and_Company_Complex), Wikipedia
41. [Smithsonian National Museum of American History — Piggly Wiggly self-service grocery concept, 1916 (Clarence Saunders, Memphis, Tennessee)](https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1394024), Smithsonian National Museum of American History
42. [Amazon — Kiva Systems acquisition announcement press release (March 19, 2012; $775M acquisition price; autonomous mobile robots)](https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazoncom-acquire-kiva-systems-inc/), Amazon
43. [Ocado Group — Ocado Smart Platform solutions page: 13 grocery partners globally, 25 live sites, 99.4% order accuracy](https://www.ocadogroup.com/our-solutions/ocado-smart-platform), Ocado Group
44. [US Census Bureau — Quarterly E-Commerce Sales: Q2 2020 +44.5% YoY (historical context for same period Walmart was ending Bossa Nova pilot)](https://www.census.gov/retail/mrts/www/data/pdf/ec_current.pdf), US Census Bureau
45. [BLS National Employment Matrix — 53-7065 Stockers and Order Fillers (2024 baseline: 2,764.8k; 2034 projection: 2,999.8k; +8.5%)](https://data.bls.gov/projections/nationalMatrix?queryParams=53-7065&ioType=o), Bureau of Labor Statistics

### Predecessors & successors

46. [IPUMS USA — historical Census occupational mobility; agricultural laborers to retail/warehouse employment context](https://usa.ipums.org/usa/volii/9050occup.shtml), IPUMS / University of Minnesota
47. [BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook — Stockers and Order Fillers: related occupations and career paths](https://www.bls.gov/ooh/transportation-and-material-moving/stockers-and-order-fillers.htm), Bureau of Labor Statistics
48. [O\*NET — 53-7065.00 related occupations; military occupational specialty crosswalk for logistics/supply MOS codes](https://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/53-7065.00), O\*NET / USDOL
49. [BLS Labor Force Statistics — demographic composition of retail and warehouse labor, occupational entry patterns](https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.htm), Bureau of Labor Statistics

### Present-day analysis

- [O\*NET 30.3, Stockers and Order Fillers (53-7065.00): tasks, tools, knowledge, job outlook](https://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/53-7065.00), accessed 2026-06-03
- [BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, Hand Laborers and Material Movers 2024-2034: Stockers and Order Fillers project 7%+ growth, 472,300 annual openings](https://www.bls.gov/ooh/transportation-and-material-moving/hand-laborers-and-material-movers.htm), accessed 2026-06-03
- [BLS Monthly Labor Review, Industry and Occupational Employment Projections Overview 2024-34: Stockers and Order Fillers account for ~40% of transportation-and-material-moving gains](https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2026/article/industry-and-occupational-employment-projections-overview.htm), accessed 2026-06-03
- [Eloundou et al. 2024, GPTs are GPTs: occupational task exposure to large language models (Science)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10130), accessed 2026-06-03
- [Metaintro, Amazon 1 million robots and 600,000 warehouse jobs analysis (2026)](https://www.metaintro.com/blog/amazon-1-million-robots-600000-warehouse-jobs-workers-2026), accessed 2026-06-03
- [McKinsey Global Institute, A Future That Works: Automation, Employment, and Productivity (2017)](https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/digital-disruption/harnessing-automation-for-a-future-that-works), accessed 2026-06-03
- [Goldman Sachs, How Will AI Affect the Global Workforce: estimated 300M full-time jobs exposed globally (2024)](https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/articles/how-will-ai-affect-the-global-workforce), accessed 2026-06-03
- [Maveneer, Voice picking overview: hands-free, eyes-free workflow reduces picking errors and improves accuracy in warehouse fulfillment (2025)](https://maveneer.com/blog/picking-by-voice), accessed 2026-06-03
- [ShipHero, Voice picking and pick-to-light systems: 25-35% error reduction vs. paper pick lists (2025)](https://www.shiphero.com/blog/automated-warehouse-picking-systems), accessed 2026-06-03
- [Locus Robotics, LocusONE enterprise AMR orchestration: human-robot collaboration at goods-to-person stations achieving 2-3x pick rate improvement (2025)](https://locusrobotics.com/blog/top-warehouse-automation-trends), accessed 2026-06-03
- [Zebra Technologies, Symmetry Fulfillment: AMR-assisted picking solution using wearable tech, WES software, and analytics to boost productivity 40%+ (May 2025)](https://www.zebra.com/us/en/about-zebra/newsroom/press-releases/2025/zebra-technologies-expands-symmetry-fulfillment-solution-to-increase-productivity-with-30-fewer-robots.html), accessed 2026-06-03
- [Locus Robotics, LocusONE orchestration platform: co-robot workflows for in-store fulfillment and AMR-assisted order picking (2025)](https://www.locusrobotics.com/solutions/warehouse-picking), accessed 2026-06-22

How to read these figures: https://futurehistory.earth/methodology. Every figure links to its own source; gaps stay gaps.