Stockers and Order Fillers salary in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD

The figures

The median Stockers and Order Fillers in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro area earns $38,630 a year ($18.57 an hour), according to the BLS OEWS May 2025 estimates (full citation in Sources). The middle half of Stockers and Order Fillers in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD earn between $35,550 and $45,270 a year. At the ends of the distribution, the lowest-paid 10 percent earn $31,870 or less and the top 10 percent earn $49,080 or more. BLS estimates 17,180 Stockers and Order Fillers jobs in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD area — 12.663 of every 1,000 jobs in the area, a location quotient of 0.69 (well below the national concentration). That is 0.6% of all Stockers and Order Fillers employment in the United States (2,833,810 jobs nationally). By employment, Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD is the #25 largest of the 25 covered metro areas for Stockers and Order Fillers. In aggregate, Stockers and Order Fillers in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD earn about $0.70 billion a year (BLS employment multiplied by the mean wage). At the mean wage, the engine's take-home is $33,320.28 a year, so the aggregate take-home of Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD Stockers and Order Fillers is about $0.57 billion. BLS reports a relative standard error of 6.1% for this employment estimate. Ranked by median pay, Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD stands #8 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 Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD. Placed against the national distribution for Stockers and Order Fillers, the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD median of $38,630 falls between the national median ($37,330) and the national 75th percentile ($44,650). Across all occupations, the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD median is $59,070 a year — Stockers and Order Fillers pay is 34.6% below the area's overall median.

Wages in detail

What the wage distribution says

The top 10 percent of Stockers and Order Fillers in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD earn 1.5 times what the bottom 10 percent earn ($49,080 against $31,870). The middle half spans $9,720 — from $35,550 to $45,270. Hourly, the 90th percentile ($23.60) is 1.54 times the 10th ($15.32). In the upper half of the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD distribution, the 75th percentile wage of $45,270 takes home $36,767.74 and the 90th percentile wage of $49,080 takes home $39,647.98 — $2,880.24 more net for $3,810 more gross. Against the median take-home of $31,747.80, the top decile keeps 1.25 times as much. The mean wage of $40,710 sits 5.4% above the median: higher-paid Stockers and Order Fillers pull the average up in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD. Among the 30 covered occupations in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, Stockers and Order Fillers ranks #22 by median pay. In the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD wage ladder of covered occupations, Stockers and Order Fillers sits between First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers at $38,760 and Home Health and Personal Care Aides at $37,640. Stockers and Order Fillers accounts for 1.3% of all employment in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro area. The average covered metro employs 46,387 Stockers and Order Fillers; Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD employs 0.4 times that.

Take-home pay on the median wage in Maryland

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

At the median, $31,747.80 of the $38,630 gross is kept ($1,221.07 per paycheck) — a deduction rate of 17.82%. The deduction rate moves with pay: 16.42% at the 10th percentile, 17.24% at the 25th percentile, 18.78% at the 75th percentile, 19.22% at the 90th percentile. Between the 25th and 75th percentile wages, annual take-home rises by $7,348.28 on a gross rise of $9,720.

The same engine at the other published points of the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD wage distribution:

Across the published distribution, take-home pay runs from $26,637.24 a year at the 10th percentile to $39,647.98 at the 90th — a spread of $13,010.74 of net pay inside one occupation and one metro area.

For scale: across all occupations, the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD median wage of $59,070 takes home $47,200.74 a year ($1,815.41 per paycheck, deduction rate 20.09%). The Stockers and Order Fillers median take-home of $31,747.80 sits $15,452.94 (32.7%) below the area-wide median take-home of $47,200.74.

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Take-home pay for $38,630 in Maryland

Against the national median

Nationally, the median Stockers and Order Fillers earns $37,330 a year ($17.95 an hour). The Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD median of $38,630 is $1,300 (3.5%) above the national median.

The means rank the area the same way: $40,710 a year in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD against $39,540 nationally, a gap of $1,170 (3.0%).

Set against the whole local market, the Stockers and Order Fillers 90th percentile of $49,080 is 35% of the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD all-occupations 90th percentile ($138,650), and its 10th percentile of $31,870 is 93% of the area-wide 10th ($34,230).

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.