Stockers and Order Fillers Average Salary in California
$43,440 average · $43,440 median · BLS OEWS 2025
SOC Code: 53-7065What is this?
This page shows employer-reported wages for Stockers and Order Fillers in California, drawn from the Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS survey — median and mean pay, the full percentile distribution, and the industries that employ this occupation locally. Night differentials, equipment certification (forklift, reach truck), and fulfillment vs. store settings create the main spreads. Union grocery and high-volume e-commerce nodes pay above small-format retail stocking. Lead and inventory-control roles are the first step out of the compressed base band.
How much do Stockers and Order Fillers make in California?
The average stockers and order fillers salary in California is $43,440 per year. That works out to about $20.88 per hour on average. BLS counts roughly 310,870 stockers and order fillers jobs in California.
Mean and median are close, so pay is relatively concentrated around $43,440. Entry-level roles (10th percentile) report about $43,440; experienced workers at the 90th percentile report about $43,440 — a 0% spread from bottom to top. Figures are employer-reported wages from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program — not self-reported survey averages — so they are the right baseline for offers, raises, and relocation decisions in this market.
How Stockers and Order Fillers Careers Are Structured
Stockers and order fillers keep shelves, backrooms, and fulfillment centers flowing — retail replenishment, grocery, and e-commerce pick/pack. The occupation absorbed much of the warehouse boom and is also among the most exposed to automation and productivity tooling.
The wage tables and percentile chart on this page show how stockers and order fillers pay is distributed in California specifically — and because state-level wages for the same occupation routinely differ by 30% or more, the local figures here are the ones that matter for offers, raises, and relocation decisions in this market.
What Moves Pay in This Field
Night differentials, equipment certification (forklift, reach truck), and fulfillment vs. store settings create the main spreads. Union grocery and high-volume e-commerce nodes pay above small-format retail stocking. Lead and inventory-control roles are the first step out of the compressed base band.
Hiring is immediate in most markets. Certifications and lead roles inside the warehouse, or moves into shipping/receiving clerk and material-moving supervisor occupations, are the clearest wage upgrades visible on related Wage Atlas pages.
New to reading wage distributions? Our guide to salary percentiles explains how to place yourself on the chart above, and the negotiation playbook shows how to use these numbers in an actual conversation.
What Do Stockers and Order Fillers Do?
Stockers and Order Fillers positions belong to the stockers and order fillers field. Stockers and order fillers keep shelves, backrooms, and fulfillment centers flowing — retail replenishment, grocery, and e-commerce pick/pack. The occupation absorbed much of the warehouse boom and is also among the most exposed to automation and productivity tooling.
Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) Code: 53-7065
Stockers and Order Fillers pay in California
In California, stockers and order fillers report a median of $43,440 (about $20.88/hour) across roughly 310,870 jobs. The local pay band runs from about $43,440 at the 10th percentile to $43,440 at the 90th.
Compared with the national distribution, local industry mix and cost of living are the main reasons California wages for this occupation sit where they do — toggle Regional Price Parity on this page to see purchasing-power-adjusted pay.
What your paycheck is really worth in California
Prices in California run 11% above the national average (RPP 110.7). So a nominal salary of $43,440 has the buying power of about $39,234 in national terms.
California vs. United States for Stockers and Order Fillers
The median stockers and order fillers salary in California is $43,440, which is +10.1% above the national median of $39,440 (mean pay is +9.8% above the U.S. mean of $39,579). Among 51 states and D.C. with OEWS data, California ranks #4 by median wage for this occupation (top tier). California accounts for about 2.2% of U.S. stockers and order fillers employment in the latest OEWS release.
See every state ranked for this occupation on the best-paying states page, or compare purchasing power on real wages.
Income reality check
The median salary for Stockers and Order Fillers in California of $43,440 falls in the Stably paid band of this framework - roughly ~12% of the U.S. population and ~15% of the global population sit in this band.
Illustrative relative standing for education only - this ladder is a simplified framework, not an official Census, BLS, or World Bank statistical series. Salary figures on Wage Atlas come from official BLS OEWS data.
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Top Industries for Stockers and Order Fillers
| $45,950 | $44,700 | $22 | 915,480 | |
| $43,198 | $42,262 | $21 | 519,820 | |
| $37,148 | $36,219 | $18 | 2,625,140 |
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| $33,202 | $33,180 | $16 | 15,770,510 | |
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