Stockers and Order Fillers salary in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

The figures

The median Stockers and Order Fillers in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area earns $37,700 a year ($18.13 an hour), according to the BLS OEWS May 2025 estimates (full citation in Sources). The middle half of Stockers and Order Fillers in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH earn between $35,920 and $44,990 a year. At the ends of the distribution, the lowest-paid 10 percent earn $32,960 or less and the top 10 percent earn $49,220 or more. BLS estimates 35,770 Stockers and Order Fillers jobs in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH area — 13.228 of every 1,000 jobs in the area, a location quotient of 0.73 (well below the national concentration). That is 1.3% of all Stockers and Order Fillers employment in the United States (2,833,810 jobs nationally). By employment, Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH is the #12 largest of the 25 covered metro areas for Stockers and Order Fillers. In aggregate, Stockers and Order Fillers in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH earn about $1.45 billion a year (BLS employment multiplied by the mean wage). At the mean wage, the engine's take-home is $33,107.30 a year, so the aggregate take-home of Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Stockers and Order Fillers is about $1.18 billion. BLS reports a relative standard error of 2.8% for this employment estimate. Ranked by median pay, Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH stands #15 of the 25 metro areas covered on this site for Stockers and Order Fillers. By employment, Stockers and Order Fillers is the #12 largest of the 30 covered occupations in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. Placed against the national distribution for Stockers and Order Fillers, the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH median of $37,700 falls between the national median ($37,330) and the national 75th percentile ($44,650). Across all occupations, the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH median is $66,620 a year — Stockers and Order Fillers pay is 43.4% below the area's overall median.

Wages in detail

What the wage distribution says

The top 10 percent of Stockers and Order Fillers in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH earn 1.5 times what the bottom 10 percent earn ($49,220 against $32,960). The middle half spans $9,070 — from $35,920 to $44,990. Hourly, the 90th percentile ($23.66) is 1.49 times the 10th ($15.85). In the upper half of the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH distribution, the 75th percentile wage of $44,990 takes home $36,400.12 and the 90th percentile wage of $49,220 takes home $39,587.26 — $3,187.14 more net for $4,230 more gross. Against the median take-home of $30,906.98, the top decile keeps 1.28 times as much. The mean wage of $40,620 sits 7.7% above the median: higher-paid Stockers and Order Fillers pull the average up in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. Among the 30 covered occupations in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH, Stockers and Order Fillers ranks #27 by median pay. In the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH wage ladder of covered occupations, Stockers and Order Fillers sits between Waiters and Waitresses at $39,270 and Retail Salespersons at $36,850. Stockers and Order Fillers accounts for 1.3% of all employment in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area. The average covered metro employs 46,387 Stockers and Order Fillers; Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH employs 0.8 times that.

Take-home pay on the median wage in Massachusetts

Single filer, no dependents, no pre-tax contributions, paid biweekly, a full year of W-2 wages in Massachusetts; city and local taxes are not included:

At the median, $30,906.98 of the $37,700 gross is kept ($1,188.73 per paycheck) — a deduction rate of 18.02%. The deduction rate moves with pay: 17.07% at the 10th percentile, 17.69% at the 25th percentile, 19.09% at the 75th percentile, 19.57% at the 90th percentile. Between the 25th and 75th percentile wages, annual take-home rises by $6,834.52 on a gross rise of $9,070.

The same engine at the other published points of the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH wage distribution:

Across the published distribution, take-home pay runs from $27,335.16 a year at the 10th percentile to $39,587.26 at the 90th — a spread of $12,252.10 of net pay inside one occupation and one metro area.

For scale: across all occupations, the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH median wage of $66,620 takes home $52,686.34 a year ($2,026.40 per paycheck, deduction rate 20.92%). The Stockers and Order Fillers median take-home of $30,906.98 sits $21,779.36 (below that area-wide figure.

Multi-state metro area. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH also covers parts of New Hampshire. The take-home estimate above uses Massachusetts rules — the metro area's primary state. If the job is based in another part of the metro area, the state tax changes: see the New Hampshire paycheck calculator.

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Take-home pay for $37,700 in Massachusetts

Against the national median

Nationally, the median Stockers and Order Fillers earns $37,330 a year ($17.95 an hour). The Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH median of $37,700 is $370 (1.0%) above the national median.

The means rank the area the same way: $40,620 a year in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH against $39,540 nationally, a gap of $1,080 (2.7%).

Set against the whole local market, the Stockers and Order Fillers 90th percentile of $49,220 is 29% of the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH all-occupations 90th percentile ($168,090), and its 10th percentile of $32,960 is 90% of the area-wide 10th ($36,760).

Sources and method

Wage data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates (released May 15, 2026), retrieved October 27, 2026 — bls.gov/oes. OEWS figures are survey estimates for May 2025, not job offers. Take-home pay is computed by this site's paycheck engine with 2026 federal and state rules; the method, and what the engine does not model, is documented in the paycheck methodology guide. Estimates only — not tax advice.