The Datum Report

Occupation 9241 · Elementary occupations

Shelf fillers

Half of full-time shelf fillers in the UK earn more than £24,896 a year, and half earn less.

Shelf fillers receive incoming goods from storage, check them for damage and place them on the appropriate shelves in the store.

How people enter it

There are no minimum academic entry requirements. Some on-the-job training may be provided.

What the work involves

• selects goods from storeroom and checks for any damage
• checks store layout or written instructions to determine the appropriate shelf location for the goods
• prices goods by machine and fills shelves with goods
• monitors depletion of stocks and re-fills shelves as required

Also called

Customer team member (shelf filling) · Evening merchandiser · General assistant (retail trade) · Grocery assistant · Shelf filler · Shelf stacker

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for shelf fillers, full-time employees, 2023 to 2025. Each point is that year's ASHE April snapshot as published — revisions are not backfilled into earlier years, and a year ONS withheld is a gap rather than a joined line.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Year-on-year change

The change from each year to the next, in per cent, computed from the figures in the chart above — so the two cannot disagree.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Pay by region

Median gross annual pay for full-time employees, ranked, against the UK figure. 5 of 11 regions are published: ONS withholds a cell where the survey sample cannot support it, and those are shown as gaps rather than dropped — an absent region is not a region without the work in it.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Period 2025. Table

Every regional figure

ONS does not publish occupational pay below region. Cells the survey could not support are shown as withheld, with its reason — adding a region split to a specific occupation leaves roughly a tenth of cells publishable.

Common questions

Classified alongside this

Elementary sales occupations n.e.c.