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.
North Carolina · 2025
Median annual (NC)
$38,230
Median hourly (NC)
$18.38
Typical range (NC)
$30,010 to $47,590
North Carolina source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS 2025.
National
Median annual
$40,240
Median hourly
$19.35
Typical range
$31,270 to $55,140
National source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS 2025. Figures are gross pay and vary by location, employer, and experience.
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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 Strike and Rapid-Response Staffing Agency
Mobilize large teams of qualified workers within 24 to 72 hours to cover labor strikes and critical staffing emergencies, at crisis pricing of two to three times normal bill rates plus a mobilization fee.
Start a Turnkey Volunteer Event Production Company
Produce one-day service projects (build days, packing marathons, park restorations, kit-assembly drives) as complete events for corporate, community, and faith groups. You supply the project, the supplies, the staff, and the logistics for a flat fee.
Start a Live Event Production Crew and Stagehand Staffing Company
Supply the labor promoters and venues need to run events: stagehands, load-in and load-out crews, riggers, audio and lighting techs, and general production staff, billed per event or per hour with a markup on labor.
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.
You could hire warehouse workers, not just be one.
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