Stockers and Order Fillers
Receive, store, and issue merchandise, materials, equipment, and other items from stockroom, warehouse, or storage yard to fill shelves, racks, tables, or customers' orders. May operate power equipment to fill orders. May mark prices on merchandise and set up sales displays.
2,833,810 people do this job in the US. $37,330 a year.
of the working time. Estimate.
- 18%
- 0%
- 82%
Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 3%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 17%. Today's estimate: 18%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
The tasks
Sorted by . 30 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stock shelves, racks, cases, bins, and tables with new or transferred merchandise.Done daily by most who do it. | 10% | 38 min13 min to 1.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Receive, unload, open, unpack, or issue sales floor merchandise.Done daily by most who do it. | 10% | 38 min13 min to 1.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Store items in an orderly and accessible manner in warehouses, tool rooms, supply rooms, or other areas.Done daily by most who do it. | 7% | 29 min13 min to 1.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Pack and unpack items to be stocked on shelves in stockrooms, warehouses, or storage yards.Done daily by most who do it. | 7% | 25 min8 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Receive and count stock items, and record data manually or on computer.Done daily by most who do it. | 7% | 33 min13 min to 1.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Design and set up advertising signs and displays of merchandise on shelves, counters, or tables to attract customers and promote sales.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 5% | 1.3 h25 min to 2.5 h | Stays with people | |
| Take inventory or examine merchandise to identify items to be reordered or replenished.Done daily by most who do it. | 5% | 25 min13 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Determine proper storage methods, identification, and stock location, based on turnover, environmental factors, and physical capabilities of facilities.Done daily by most who do it. | 4% | 29 min13 min to 1.3 h | 99%Half by now | |
| Operate equipment such as forklifts.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 4% | 25 min8 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Recommend disposal of excess, defective, or obsolete stock.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 4% | 25 min8 min to 1.3 h | 97%Half by now | |
| Mark stock items, using identification tags, stamps, electric marking tools, or other labeling equipment.Done daily by most who do it. | 3% | 17 min8 min to 33 min | Stays with people | |
| Requisition merchandise from supplier, based on available space, merchandise on hand, customer demand, or advertised specials.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 3% | 25 min13 min to 50 min | 100%Half by now |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
Jobs that share skills with this one
From O*NET's related occupations. Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks43% now, 43% by 2028
- Counter and Rental Clerks53% now, 53% by 2028
- Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping21% now, 21% by 2028
- Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand11% now, 11% by 2028
- Retail Salespersons20% now, 20% by 2028
- Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators1% now, 1% by 2028
Where this job works
The industry groups that employ the most of it (BLS, May 2025).
Where the most of these jobs are
The metro areas with the most people in it (BLS, May 2025).