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Stockers and Order Fillers

Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metropolitan area. Estimated employment 42,650.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 53-7065
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

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$37,730 · 50th
$31,64010th
$35,36025th
$37,73050th
$46,37075th
$58,50090th

That is the medianhalf of people in this occupation in Phoenix earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$37,730 in Phoenix buys what $36,500 buys across the country as a whole.

Phoenix's regional price parity is 103.3 — above the national average, so the nominal figure overstates what it buys. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.

Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in Arizona

Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Phoenix
Yuma$37,810$40,80092.7+11.7%
Phoenix This page$37,730$36,500103.3
Prescott Valley$37,550$38,20098.3+4.6%
Flagstaff$37,520$37,400100.3+2.4%
Sierra Vista$36,530$40,90089.2+12.1%
Lake Havasu City$36,390$38,70094.1+5.9%
Tucson$35,960$37,10096.9+1.6%

Price parity and difference against Phoenix are in the full table on wider screens.

Fig. 2 — Five-year trend

Nominal against real

The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.

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Nominal, as published Real, in 2025 dollars US$ thousands

Published pay rose 25.3% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it still rose 5.5% — pay has outrun prices since 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.

Sources

How this page was made

Wage data
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
Price parity
Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
Inflation
Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
Employment
42,650 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 53-7065, Stockers and Order Fillers. Mapped to our taxonomy as stockers-and-order-fillers.

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