Grocery Clerk
Impact: Direct
Assist customers, stock shelves, operate cash registers, and maintain cleanliness and organization to ensure a positive shopping experience in a grocery store.
What the day looks like
- People interaction
- Extensive
- Team vs solo
- Team-oriented
- Client facing
- Always
- Impact visibility
- Moderate
- Travel
- None
- Schedule flexibility
- Moderate
- Remote work
- On-site Only
- Typical work hours
- 40 hours/week
- Stress level
- Moderate
At a glance
- Median salary
- $35,000
- Entry-level
- $28,000
- Senior
- $42,000
- Growth by 2033
- -2%
- Demand
- Declining
- Freelance potential
- Low
- Salary growth potential
- Low
- Typical student debt
- $0 - $5,000
Skills you'll use
Hard skills
- Cash Handling
- Inventory Management
- Product Knowledge
Soft skills
- Customer Service
- Communication
- Teamwork
Technical complexity: Low
How to get there
- Minimum education
- High School Diploma or Equivalent
- Licensing
- No
- Years to mid-career
- 3
- Years to senior
- 7
- Career switching
- Easy
Where this career leads
How people arrive here
Where you can go from here
Typical progression
- Entry-level grocery clerk can advance to lead clerk, department supervisor, or store manager with experience and additional training.
Future outlook
- Automation probability
- 85%
- AI disruption risk
- Moderate
- Demand trend
- Declining
How people feel about it
- Overall satisfaction
- 3.5/10
- Meaning
- 3/10
- Work-life balance
- 3.5/10
- Prestige
- 3.5/10
- Social perception
- Moderate