Salaries / Warehouse Worker
Transportation & Warehouse · SOC 53-7062
Warehouse Worker salary
Laborers and material movers pack, load, and move freight and stock by hand in warehouses and distribution centers.
Median annual
$37,000
Median hourly
$17.80
Typical range
$28,000 to $50,000
Source: National estimate (to be replaced by live BLS data). Figures are gross pay and vary by location, employer, and experience.
The pay range, visually.
Low end (about the 10th percentile), median, and high end (about the 90th percentile).
By state
State figures are estimates derived from the national median and a state wage index, shown to give a rough sense of local differences.
Your skills are a business
Ideas we have for people in transportation & warehouse.
The same experience that earns a paycheck as a warehouse worker can start a business. Here are real ideas from our marketplace that fit this field.
Start a Pallet Recovery and Resale Business
Collect the wooden pallets piling up behind businesses, sort and repair them, and sell them back into the supply chain, a commodity trade with standing buyers hiding in plain sight.
Start a Moving Company
Move households and offices locally, charging hourly crew rates or flat job prices, starting with labor-only moves before buying a truck.
Start a Specialty Nurse Staffing Agency (ICU, OR, L&D, Oncology)
Staff the units generalist agencies cannot fill: ICU, operating room, labor and delivery, oncology, and NICU nurses placed per diem and on contract, at the premium that scarcity pays.
Start a Staffing Agency
Place candidates with companies that already pay for people. Pick a niche, a model, and a fee structure, then land the first job order.
You could hire warehouse workers, not just be one.
We have a staffing calculator to price the work and a full course on how to start a staffing agency, so you can turn a field you already know into a business that puts other people to work.