What Stockers and Order Fillers earn in Cass County, TX
If you are weighing a move or a job offer, start with $36,180: the median annual pay for Stockers and Order Fillers in Cass County, TX. Spread over a standard 2,080-hour work year, that is $17.39 an hour. Because the wage survey covers the whole North Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area, the number reflects employers across the region rather than a single town or a single company.
The mean wage is $36,600, which is 1.2% above the median, so pay is spread fairly evenly. The survey counts about 6,930 people working in this occupation across the North Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area, so the estimate rests on a substantial pool of workers. Cass County, TX has roughly 28,568 residents, according to the population figures used by the rent data.
The salary range, from entry level to top earners
Pay for Stockers and Order Fillers in the North Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area is not one number. The lowest-paid tenth of workers earn up to $27,780 a year ($13.36 an hour), while the highest-paid tenth earn $47,230 or more ($22.71 an hour). That is a gap of $19,450 between the bottom and the top of the scale. The middle half of workers falls between $31,520 at the 25th percentile and $39,510 at the 75th percentile. A top-tier earner makes 1.7 times what someone at the bottom makes, so experience, certification and employer all matter.
What the hourly rate looks like
Employers quote this occupation by the hour or by the year, so here are both: $17.39 an hour or $36,180 a year at the median for Cass County, TX. Before any deductions, that is $3,015 a month, $1,392 every two weeks and $696 each week. After taxes the same job pays $15.00 per hour of take-home income, which is the number that actually has to cover rent and groceries.
About this occupation: Stockers and Order Fillers
The U.S. Department of Labor's O*NET database describes the work of Stockers and Order Fillers this way: "Receive, store, and issue merchandise, materials, equipment, and other items from stockroom, warehouse, or storage yard to fill shelves, racks, tables, or customers' orders. May operate power equipment to fill orders. May mark prices on merchandise and set up sales displays."
Core tasks recorded by O*NET include: "Complete order receipts"; "Obtain merchandise from bins or shelves"; "Read orders to ascertain catalog numbers, sizes, colors, and quantities of merchandise"; "Pack and unpack items to be stocked on shelves in stockrooms, warehouses, or storage yards".
Job outlook for Stockers and Order Fillers
The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects national employment in this occupation to grow from 2,804,300 jobs in 2025 to 3,055,000 in 2035, a change of +8.9%, faster than the 3.5% projected for all occupations. The projection counts 430,700 openings a year on average, including positions created by growth and positions left by workers who retire or move to another occupation; that equals 15.4% of current employment each year.
Typical entry-level education: no formal educational credential. Typical on-the-job training to reach competency: short-term on-the-job training. BLS lists a national median annual wage of $37,330 for this occupation; the Cass County, TX median of $36,180 is 3.1% below it.
How pay in Cass County, TX compares
Compared with the Texas average
Pay in Cass County, TX runs $772 below the Texas average of $36,952, a gap of 2.1%. A worker who moved to a better-paying part of Texas would, on paper, gain that difference before taxes. Within Texas, the highest median we track for this job is $37,720 in Travis County, TX.
Compared with the national average
The national employment-weighted average for Stockers and Order Fillers is $37,561 across the contiguous United States. At $36,180, Cass County, TX pays $1,381 less, which is 3.7% below that benchmark. Keep in mind that a higher salary only helps if living costs do not rise faster, which is why the cost sections below matter as much as the headline number.
Where this job ranks in Cass County, TX
Among the 402 occupations with published wages in Cass County, TX, Stockers and Order Fillers ranks number 328 by median pay, ahead of about 18% of them. The best-paying occupation we track here is General and Operations Managers at $80,820 a year, which is $44,640 more than the median for Stockers and Order Fillers.
From gross pay to take-home pay
Three separate tax bills sit between the gross salary and the bank account: federal income tax, FICA, and state income tax. For Stockers and Order Fillers earning the Cass County, TX median of $36,180, they add up to $4,981. The result is $31,199 of take-home pay a year ($2,600 a month), based on a single filer using the standard deduction.
Put another way, of every $100 earned, about $14 goes to taxes and $86 reaches the paycheck. The overall effective tax rate is 13.8%.
Federal income tax
After the $15,750 standard deduction, taxable income is $20,430. Federal brackets are marginal, so only the slice of income above each threshold is taxed at the higher rate; the last dollars of this salary fall in the 12% bracket. The resulting federal income tax is $2,213, an effective 6.1% of gross pay, well below the 12% marginal rate because the lower brackets are cheaper.
Social Security and Medicare (FICA)
Payroll taxes are a flat percentage of wages. Social Security takes 6.2% up to a wage base of $176,100, which costs $2,243 on this salary. Medicare takes 1.45%, or $525. FICA totals $2,768, which is 7.6% of gross pay.
State income tax in Texas
Texas does not tax wage income, so the state income tax line for Stockers and Order Fillers in Cass County, TX is $0. That alone leaves more in the paycheck than the same salary would in a state with an income tax. For scale, a hypothetical flat 5% state tax on this salary would cost about $1,809 a year, so the absence of a state tax is worth roughly $151 a month.
A cross-check with IRS data for Cass County, TX
IRS Statistics of Income data for Cass County, TX show an average adjusted gross income of $59,862 per return and an average effective federal income tax rate of 9.6% across all filers. Filers in the $25,000 to under $50,000 bracket, where this salary falls, paid an average of 4.2%, compared with the 6.1% estimated here for a single filer taking the standard deduction. Gaps between the two reflect filing status, dependents, credits and other income, none of which a single-person wage estimate includes.
Cost of living in Cass County, TX
Take-home pay only means something next to what life costs. We price four basics for one adult in Cass County, TX: a one-bedroom apartment, food, home energy and gasoline. All of them are converted to annual figures first, then compared with the $31,199 of take-home pay.
Rent
Housing is the largest line in most budgets. For Cass County, TX, HUD sets the Fair Market Rent for a one-bedroom unit at $775 a month ($9,300 a year), and at $1,014 for two bedrooms. For Stockers and Order Fillers, a one-bedroom absorbs 29.8% of take-home pay and 25.7% of gross pay.
Food
The USDA Thrifty Food Plan (August 2026) puts the cost of a nutritious home-cooked diet for an adult at about $3,436 a year, which is $286 a month or $66.07 a week. That equals 9.5% of gross pay for Stockers and Order Fillers in Cass County, TX. It is a thrifty budget with no restaurant meals, so treat it as a floor.
Energy and gasoline
Using Texas residential prices from the Energy Information Administration and national household averages for consumption, electricity costs about $1,578 a year and other home energy such as natural gas about $719, for $2,297 in total. Gasoline in Texas averages $2.88 per gallon; at about 463 gallons a year (11,106 miles at 24 miles per gallon) fuel adds $1,334.
What is left over
Rent, food, energy and gasoline cost $16,367 a year in Cass County, TX. Subtract that from $31,199 of take-home pay and $14,832 remains, which is $1,236 a month of breathing room. That margin equals 41.0% of gross pay, a comfortable cushion by common budgeting rules.
Local housing and commute data for Cass County, TX
The budget above covers rent, food, energy and gasoline. Three more local facts shape what a paycheck buys in Cass County, TX: property taxes, housing prices and the daily commute. The figures below are exact U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates for Cass County, TX, set beside the Texas and national medians.
Property taxes in Cass County, TX
Homeowners in Cass County, TX pay a median of $1,375 a year in real estate taxes, 68% below the Texas median of $4,232 and 56% below the U.S. median of $3,119. Against a median home value of $146,400, the median tax bill is 0.94% of that value (the ratio of the two county medians). For a worker paid the local Stockers and Order Fillers median of $36,180, a tax bill of that size would equal 3.8% of gross pay, which matters for anyone planning to buy rather than rent.
Rents, home prices and household income in Cass County, TX
Renters in Cass County, TX pay a median gross rent of $852 a month in the Census survey, 39% below the Texas median of $1,403. HUD's Fair Market Rent for a one-bedroom apartment, which this site uses in the budget, is $775 a month; the two measures differ because the Census figure covers units of every size that renters already occupy, while the HUD figure is a one-bedroom benchmark. The median value of an owner-occupied home is $146,400, 48% below the Texas median of $283,800. Median household income is $53,813, 31% below the Texas median of $78,476, so a year of one-bedroom Fair Market Rent equals 17.3% of that income.
Commuting in Cass County, TX
Workers in Cass County, TX who travel to a workplace spend an average of 25.7 minutes each way, 4% below the Texas average of 26.7. For someone who commutes five days a week, that is 4.3 hours of round-trip travel every week, a cost the budget does not price. 6.4% of workers in Cass County, TX work from home, compared with 15.1% nationally, which removes the commute for them.
Can Stockers and Order Fillers afford to live in Cass County, TX?
The 30% rent guideline
A common rule of thumb says rent should stay under 30% of gross income. For a gross salary of $36,180 that ceiling is $905 a month. The one-bedroom Fair Market Rent of $775 is $130 under it, so rent fits the guideline. Put as a wage, covering a one-bedroom at the 30% guideline takes $14.90 an hour; the median for Stockers and Order Fillers is $17.39, which is 17% above that mark. Another way to see it: at $15.00 of take-home pay an hour, a one-bedroom takes about 11.9 working hours every week.
Splitting a two-bedroom
Sharing a two-bedroom at $1,014 a month means $507 each. Compared with renting a one-bedroom alone, that saves $3,216 a year. With a roommate, the yearly margin after the basics becomes $18,048.
How fast you can save
At $1,236 a month of margin, building a $10,000 emergency fund would take about 9 months. Setting aside half of the margin stretches the same goal to about 18 months. These figures ignore interest, raises and any spending beyond the four basics.
Frequently asked questions about Stockers and Order Fillers pay in Cass County, TX
How much do Stockers and Order Fillers make per hour in Cass County, TX?
The median is $17.39 per hour, based on $36,180 a year over 2,080 hours. Hourly pay runs from about $13.36 at the 10th percentile to $22.71 at the 90th percentile.
How much do Stockers and Order Fillers take home after taxes in Cass County, TX?
After federal income tax, FICA, the median salary of $36,180 becomes $31,199 a year. That is $2,600 a month, $1,200 every two weeks or $600 a week.
How much tax do Stockers and Order Fillers pay in Cass County, TX?
Total taxes are $4,981 a year, an effective rate of 13.8%: $2,213 federal income tax, $2,768 FICA and no Texas income tax.
Do Stockers and Order Fillers earn more in Cass County, TX than elsewhere in Texas?
No. The local median of $36,180 is -2.1% versus the Texas average of $36,952, a difference of $772 a year.
Can Stockers and Order Fillers afford a one-bedroom apartment in Cass County, TX?
A one-bedroom costs $775 a month against take-home pay of $2,600, which is 29.8% of take-home pay. That meets the 30%-of-gross guideline, which allows up to $905 a month.
What is the monthly budget margin for Stockers and Order Fillers in Cass County, TX?
About $1,236 a month ($14,832 a year) remains after a one-bedroom apartment, food, home energy and gasoline, which together cost $16,367 a year.
What hourly wage covers a one-bedroom in Cass County, TX at the 30% guideline?
$14.90 an hour for a full-time schedule, calculated as the $9,300 annual rent divided by 0.30 and by 2,080 hours. The median for Stockers and Order Fillers is $17.39.
How we calculated these numbers
Wages are May 2025 medians from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey for the North Region of Texas nonmetropolitan area; hourly-only values are annualized at 2,080 hours. Rents are HUD Fair Market Rents, food costs come from the USDA Thrifty Food Plan, and energy prices come from the Energy Information Administration. County-level tax statistics come from the IRS Statistics of Income.
Taxes use tax-year 2025 federal brackets, FICA rates and the Texas rules for a single filer with wage income only. Figures are estimates for planning and comparison, not tax or financial advice, and they exclude local income taxes, benefits, retirement contributions and individual circumstances.