JRIJob Risk Index

Real salary data

What Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks actually earn in 2026.

The median for Shipping and Receiving Clerk is $41,912 across 97 real salary records (H-1B visa filings and tech job postings), updated Sep 14, 2026.

01 / By source

Real salary bands, by source.

Bands come from 97 real records. Each source has a different bias, disclosed below.

Approximate salary distribution$41,912
p25$38,480p50$41,912p75$47,840

Density curve fitted to the observed quartiles (log-normal). $38,480–$47,840 contains the middle 50% of records in the best-represented source; the shape between them is an approximation.

SourceRecords25th pctMedian75th pct
Job postings97$38,480$41,912$47,840

Salary data updated Sep 14, 2026. Bands are percentiles, not averages; n is the number of underlying records.

02 / By city

What Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks earn, by city.

Real records; cities with at least 10 observations.

CityRecordsRange (p25–p75)Median
Houston, TX14$37,331 – $43,729$39,676
New York, NY14$43,553 – $53,157$45,760

03 / By state

What Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks earn, by state.

StateRecordsRange (p25–p75)Median
CA15$39,998 – $47,320$42,942
NY15$44,288 – $53,680$45,760
TX14$37,331 – $43,729$39,676

04 / Context

How Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks pay compares with similar roles.

ProfessionRiskMedianOutlook
Administrative AssistantCritical$48,620-1.6% (2024–34)
Compensation and Benefits ManagerMedium$178,900+0.2% (2024–34)
Customer Service RepresentativeHigh$40,300-5.5% (2024–34)
Data Entry ClerkCritical$44,834-25.9% (2024–34)
Executive Administrative AssistantHigh$75,000-1.6% (2024–34)

05 / Next step

How to move up the pay band.

The skills below appear most often in higher-paid roles:

06 / FAQ

Salary questions, answered.

01Why are the bands different from the BLS median?
The BLS median covers all Shipping and Receiving Clerk in the US. These bands come from real records with known biases — H-1B filings skew to visa-eligible (high-skill) roles and tech postings skew to tech employers — so they sit above the national median. We disclose the source of every band.
02How often is this data updated?
The dataset refreshes weekly from live job postings and quarterly from new H-1B disclosures.

Methodology