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Occupation

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.

45 AI exposure
51 Human advantage
71 Market demand
48 AI leverage

Is Stockers and Order Fillers a safe career from AI?

Stockers and Order Fillers scores 45 out of 100 for AI exposure, which is low. Most of what this job involves is not the kind of task current AI systems are good at, largely because it happens in a physical place rather than on a screen.

Its human advantage score is 51. There is a real physical and in-person component to this work, alongside a good deal that could be done from anywhere. Market demand scores 71 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 8.9% over ten years.

What Stockers and Order Fillers pay

The median wage is $37,090 a year. The lower quarter earns under $33,710 and the upper quarter over $43,140. About 2,779,530 people do this work in the United States.

Where Stockers and Order Fillers can go next

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Where this comes from

Work content and transitions from O*NET, the US Department of Labor's occupational database. Wages and employment projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. AI exposure from published research measuring which occupations current AI capabilities overlap with. None of it is a forecast, and none of these numbers are ours: they are public data, put next to each other.

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