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Material Handler Salary & Career Guide

What 439 live Material Handler postings ask for and pay: salary by years of experience, skills, education and the employers hiring.

Open roles
439
Employers
156
Remote
0%
Typical pay
$36k–53k
Verified live (7d)
395

Pay is advertised by 38% of these postings (165 of 439 in USD), so read it as what is offered rather than what is paid.

Pay by experience

Median advertised base, from postings that disclosed a range in USD · pick a band to read the rest of this page for it

ExperienceMedianPostings
0–2 years$39k34
3–5 years$42k11

Skills in demand

Across 180 material handler postings that named at least one skill

  • Enterprise Resource Planning38%
  • SAP27%
  • OSHA16%
  • Warehouse Management System13%
  • Kanban8.9%
  • Google Gmail1.7%
  • Intuit QuickBooks1.1%
  • SAP ERP1.1%
  • Eiffel0.6%
  • sK10.6%

Experience asked for

Minimum years named in the posting · 153 postings stated one

0–2 years
76%
3–5 years
24%

Education

The floor the posting sets · 207 postings stated one

High school
100%
Associate
0.5%

Employment type

How the role is engaged · 227 postings stated one

Full-time
88%
Part-time
2.6%
Contract
3.5%
Internship
5.7%

Employers hiring for this

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