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Salary by Country
Shipping and Receiving Clerks Salary by Country
The US median for shipping and receiving clerks is $45,260. Below, the PPP-adjusted equivalent across 13 markets, modelled from US BLS data with OECD wage ratios and live exchange rates.
Pay and AI exposure
What the shipping and receiving clerks salary does not tell you
Salary measures what the market pays shipping and receiving clerks today. It says nothing about how durable that pay is as AI reshapes the work. Shipping and Receiving Clerks currently sit at 80/100 on the AI exposure scale, in the high exposure band. A well-paid role can still be highly exposed: the question is which layer of the work you occupy.
The country differences below are wage-level effects, not exposure differences. AI compresses the same routine layer of shipping and receiving clerks work in every market. To see where your own position sits and what shifts it, run the free structural reading or model the dimensions in the simulator.
13 markets
Shipping and Receiving Clerks salary across countries
Median annual pay and the typical 10th-to-90th-percentile range, shown in each market's local currency.
| Country | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|
| United States (source) | $45,260 | $34,650 to $62,190 |
| United Kingdom | £23,400 | £17,900 to £32,200 |
| Canada | $47,100 | $36,100 to $64,800 |
| Australia | $48,300 | $36,900 to $66,300 |
| Ireland | €30,800 | €23,600 to €42,400 |
| New Zealand | $45,700 | $35,000 to $62,800 |
| Germany | 29.300 € | 22.400 € to 40.300 € |
| France | 26 200 € | 20 100 € to 36 000 € |
| Netherlands | € 34.700 | € 26.600 to € 47.700 |
| Singapore | $47,200 | $36,200 to $64,900 |
| Japan | ￥4,279,500 | ￥3,276,300 to ￥5,880,300 |
| South Africa | R 254,300 | R 194,700 to R 349,500 |
| India | ₹7,79,200 | ₹5,96,500 to ₹10,70,600 |
US figures are BLS OEWS survey data. All other countries are PPP-adjusted estimates, derived from the US median via OECD average-wage ratios and live exchange rates. They indicate purchasing-power-style equivalents, not surveyed local salaries.
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