# 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.

- **SOC code:** 53-7065.00
- **Canonical URL:** https://singulariki.com/roles/role-53-7065-00
- **Also known as:** Checker Stocker, Order Filler, Stock Clerk, Stocker, Inventory Specialist, Inventory Technician (Inventory Tech), Label Maker, Marking Clerk
- **Frame:** "AI exposure" means task overlap (how codifiable the work is), not jobs lost or a forecast. Every figure below is traced to a named public dataset.

## What this work is

**Core tasks** (O*NET):
- Complete order receipts.
- Answer customers' questions about merchandise and advise customers on merchandise selection.
- Compute prices of items or groups of items.
- Issue or distribute materials, products, parts, and supplies to customers or coworkers, based on information from incoming requisitions.
- Keep records of out-going orders.
- Stock shelves, racks, cases, bins, and tables with new or transferred merchandise.
- Operate equipment such as forklifts.
- Stamp, attach, or change price tags on merchandise, referring to price list.
- Obtain merchandise from bins or shelves.
- Itemize and total customer merchandise selection at checkout counter, using cash register, and accept cash or charge card for purchases.
- Receive and count stock items, and record data manually or on computer.
- Read orders to ascertain catalog numbers, sizes, colors, and quantities of merchandise.

## Skills, tools, capabilities

**Knowledge, skills & abilities** (O*NET, highest importance first):
- Near Vision _(ability)_
- Oral Comprehension _(ability)_
- Active Listening _(essential_skill)_
- Trunk Strength _(ability)_
- Customer and Personal Service _(knowledge)_
- Written Comprehension _(ability)_
- Oral Expression _(ability)_
- Manual Dexterity _(ability)_
- Extent Flexibility _(ability)_
- Speech Clarity _(ability)_
- English Language _(knowledge)_
- Reading Comprehension _(essential_skill)_

**Skills in demand:**
- Active Listening _(Common Skill)_
- English Language _(Common Skill)_
- Speech Recognition _(Specialized Skill)_
- Reading Comprehension _(Common Skill)_
- Microsoft Word _(Common Skill)_
- Microsoft Windows _(Common Skill)_
- Microsoft Outlook _(Common Skill)_
- Microsoft Excel _(Common Skill)_
- Microsoft Edge _(Specialized Skill)_
- Microsoft Access _(Specialized Skill)_
- Information Ordering _(Specialized Skill)_
- Google Docs _(Specialized Skill)_

**Tools & technology:**
- Apple Safari _(hot technology)_
- Google Docs _(hot technology)_
- Microsoft Access _(hot technology)_
- Microsoft Edge _(hot technology)_
- Microsoft Excel _(hot technology)_
- Microsoft Office software _(hot technology)_
- Microsoft Outlook _(hot technology)_
- Microsoft Windows _(hot technology)_
- Microsoft Word _(hot technology)_
- Mozilla Firefox _(hot technology)_
- SAP software _(hot technology)_
- Data entry software

## AI exposure & outlook

- **AI task-overlap index:** 29th percentile (Low) across all occupations — composite of current-era exposure studies (ai-exposure-index-v1).
- **LLM task exposure, γ (OpenAI / Eloundou):** 29th percentile (Low) — source: eloundou_gamma.
- **AI assistant applicability (Microsoft):** 33rd percentile (Low) — source: microsoft_applicability.
- **Projected employment (BLS 2024–34):** 8.5% growth (Growing fast); 472.3k annual openings; 2,764.8k → 2,999.8k jobs.
- **Pay & employment (BLS OEWS, May 2024):** median $37,090; 2,779,530 employed.

## Sources

- **O*NET** (30.3) — U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS)** (May 2024) — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS Employment Projections** (2024–2034) — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **Anthropic Economic Index** (v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27)) — Anthropic. https://www.anthropic.com/economic-index
- **Microsoft “Working with AI”** (working-with-ai) — Microsoft Research. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/
- **“GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.)** (arXiv 2303.10130) — OpenAI / academic. https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10130

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_Generated from Singulariki's joined dataset; data snapshot 2026-06-02T21:00:32.945303+00:00. https://singulariki.com/roles/role-53-7065-00_