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Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks pay in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA and Terre Haute, IN
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks is $56,370 per year in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA. It is $45,450 per year in Terre Haute, IN. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA is 24.0% above Terre Haute, IN on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 43-5071 and the same annual wage metric. Median means the middle of each area's published wage spread. It is not one worker's pay. The larger median is not proof that one place gives a better job or a better result. It is one wage fact from one source period.
BLS lists 12,520 wage and salary jobs in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA and 340 in Terre Haute, IN. Those are survey job counts, not open posts. Read pay, job scale, local share, and price level as separate facts before you make a choice.