Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Stock Associate: $36K median posted pay.
From 109 salary bands employers posted on 293 open stock associate roles in retail. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 292 | $36K | — |
| Senior | 1 | — (0 of 8 bands) | — |
Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open.
| Employer | Open roles | Entry level |
|---|---|---|
| Worldmarket | 252 | — |
| Abercrombie | 14 | — |
| Crate & Barrel | CB2 | 6 | — |
| Jcrew | 5 | — |
| Knitwellgroup | 4 | — |
| Csc | 3 | — |
| ALO | 2 | — |
| Sézane | 2 | — |
| Toryburch | 1 | — |
| Genpt | 1 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open stock associate roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Customer Service | 270 | — |
| Visual Merchandising | 259 | — |
| Loss Prevention | 21 | — |
| Curbside and Delivery Fulfillment | 6 | — |
| Inventory Control | 5 | — |
| Point of Sale Systems | 5 | — |
| Opening and Closing Procedures | 3 | — |
| Price Changes and Markdowns | 2 | — |
| Shipping and Receiving | 2 | — |
| Cashiering | 2 | — |
Where the work is
0% of these roles are remote.
- Remote0%0 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site98%286 roles
- Not stated2%7 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 293 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on October 17, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 109 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Stock Associate (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in retail, which is why this page belongs to that career. A title gets a page only where twenty-five or more roles are open, eight or more of them posted a band, three or more employers are hiring for it and four in five of its postings sit in one career, so no page here is a guess.