How to become a stock clerk
Official title: Stock clerks
Also called: Dispatch clerk (stock), Freight clerk, Stock clerk, Storeroom clerk, Weighing clerk
Stock clerks maintain records of goods produced and production materials received, weighed, issued, dispatched or put into stock.
Main tasks
- Arranging and controlling receipt and dispatch of goods and keeping relevant records
- Maintaining stock records, verifying issue of goods, estimating needs and making requisitions of new stocks
- Receiving, storing and issuing tools, spare parts or various equipment, and maintaining relevant records
- Weighing goods received or produced, or for issue or dispatch, and maintaining relevant records
- Compiling inventories of furniture and other items received for storage
Ways in
- Qualifications Framework: Vocational Qualifications Pathway: Logistics. The Qualifications Framework publishes a Vocational Qualifications Pathway for the Logistics industry (物流業), showing QF-recognised qualifications by level: https://www.hkqf.gov.hk/logistics/en/vqp. Link between the industry and this job by Peernovo.
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Median pay: HK$19,600 a month
- About 455,200 people in 2025, and about 412,000 projected by 2028. (-9.5%)
- Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
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Questions people ask
How do I become a stock clerk?
Ways in include: Vocational Qualifications Pathway: Logistics.
Do you need a degree to become a stock clerk?
Usually not. Only 19% of people in this job hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Ways in include: Vocational Qualifications Pathway: Logistics.
Will AI change the work of a stock clerk?
Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- Census and Statistics Department (2021 Population Census): 2021 Population Census, Interactive Data Dissemination Service: working population by occupation (38 groups) and sex, age, education, income; median income and field of education (9 groups) (2021 Population Census), retrieved 4 October 2026
- Census and Statistics Department (General Household Survey): Median monthly employment earnings by occupation (9 groups), excluding foreign domestic helpers (Table 210-06317A); employed persons by occupation, age and sex (210-06307A) and by industry (210-06308A) (2025 annual (series to 2026-07)), retrieved 4 October 2026
- Census and Statistics Department (Annual Earnings and Hours Survey): Monthly and hourly wage percentiles by occupational group (5 groups) (Tables 220-23014, 220-23024, 220-23003) (2025 (May to June 2025), released 2026-03-23), retrieved 4 October 2026
- Labour and Welfare Bureau; tables published by C&SD: Mid-term Update of Manpower Projection to 2028: supplementary statistical tables (5 occupation groups, 17 selected industries) (2025 to 2028 (published 2026-09)), retrieved 4 October 2026
- International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
Updated 4 October 2026