What Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks earn in Haralson County, GA
If you are weighing a move or a job offer, start with $44,850: the median annual pay for Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks in Haralson County, GA. Spread over a standard 2,080-hour work year, that is $21.56 an hour. Because the wage survey covers the whole Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metropolitan area, the number reflects employers across the region rather than a single town or a single company.
The mean wage is $46,320, which is 3.3% above the median, a sign that a group of high earners lifts the average. The survey counts about 16,280 people working in this occupation across the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metropolitan area, so the estimate rests on a substantial pool of workers. Haralson County, GA has roughly 31,285 residents, according to the population figures used by the rent data.
The salary range, from entry level to top earners
Pay for Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metropolitan area is not one number. The lowest-paid tenth of workers earn up to $34,350 a year ($16.51 an hour), while the highest-paid tenth earn $62,890 or more ($30.24 an hour). That is a gap of $28,540 between the bottom and the top of the scale. The middle half of workers falls between $37,550 at the 25th percentile and $49,560 at the 75th percentile. A top-tier earner makes 1.8 times what someone at the bottom makes, so experience, certification and employer all matter.
What the hourly rate looks like
Employers quote this occupation by the hour or by the year, so here are both: $21.56 an hour or $44,850 a year at the median for Haralson County, GA. Before any deductions, that is $3,738 a month, $1,725 every two weeks and $863 each week. After taxes the same job pays $17.53 per hour of take-home income, which is the number that actually has to cover rent and groceries.
About this occupation: Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks
The U.S. Department of Labor's O*NET database describes the work of Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks this way: "Verify and maintain records on incoming and outgoing shipments involving inventory. Duties include verifying and recording incoming merchandise or material and arranging for the transportation of products. May prepare items for shipment."
Core tasks recorded by O*NET include: "Prepare documents, such as work orders, bills of lading, or shipping orders, to route materials"; "Record shipment data, such as weight, charges, space availability, damages, or discrepancies, for reporting, accounting, or recordkeeping purposes"; "Contact carrier representatives to make arrangements or to issue instructions for shipping and delivery of materials"; "Confer or correspond with establishment representatives to rectify problems, such as damages, shortages, or nonconformance to specifications".
Job outlook for Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks
The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects national employment in this occupation to shrink from 827,700 jobs in 2025 to 765,000 in 2035, a change of -7.6%, slower than the 3.5% projected for all occupations. The projection counts 61,300 openings a year on average, including positions created by growth and positions left by workers who retire or move to another occupation; that equals 7.4% of current employment each year.
Typical entry-level education: high school diploma or equivalent. Typical on-the-job training to reach competency: short-term on-the-job training. BLS lists a national median annual wage of $45,260 for this occupation; the Haralson County, GA median of $44,850 is 0.9% below it.
How pay in Haralson County, GA compares
Compared with the Georgia average
A worker in this occupation in Haralson County, GA earns $1,431 more than the Georgia average of $43,419, a premium of 3.3%. Over a year that premium is worth $1,431 before tax and roughly $1,163 after tax. Within Georgia, Haralson County, GA already has the highest median we track for this job.
Compared with the national average
Nationally, Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks earn an employment-weighted average of $44,960 across the contiguous United States, so $44,850 in Haralson County, GA is essentially average. Keep in mind that a higher salary only helps if living costs do not rise faster, which is why the cost sections below matter as much as the headline number.
Where this job ranks in Haralson County, GA
Among the 586 occupations with published wages in Haralson County, GA, Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks ranks number 453 by median pay, ahead of about 23% of them. The best-paying occupation we track here is Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers at $618,090 a year, which is $573,240 more than the median for Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks.
From gross pay to take-home pay
Three separate tax bills sit between the gross salary and the bank account: federal income tax, FICA, and state income tax. For Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks earning the Haralson County, GA median of $44,850, they add up to $8,389. The result is $36,461 of take-home pay a year ($3,038 a month), based on a single filer using the standard deduction.
Put another way, of every $100 earned, about $19 goes to taxes and $81 reaches the paycheck. The overall effective tax rate is 18.7%.
Federal income tax
After the $15,750 standard deduction, taxable income is $29,100. Federal brackets are marginal, so only the slice of income above each threshold is taxed at the higher rate; the last dollars of this salary fall in the 12% bracket. The resulting federal income tax is $3,254, an effective 7.3% of gross pay, well below the 12% marginal rate because the lower brackets are cheaper.
Social Security and Medicare (FICA)
Payroll taxes are a flat percentage of wages. Social Security takes 6.2% up to a wage base of $176,100, which costs $2,781 on this salary. Medicare takes 1.45%, or $650. FICA totals $3,431, which is 7.6% of gross pay.
State income tax in Georgia
Georgia income tax on this salary is $1,705 a year, or 3.8% of gross pay, after the state's own deductions and exemptions are applied. That is 52% of the federal income tax bill, and it comes out to $142 a month. Local taxes such as county or city income taxes are not included, so a few jurisdictions may withhold slightly more.
A cross-check with IRS data for Haralson County, GA
IRS Statistics of Income data for Haralson County, GA show an average adjusted gross income of $66,993 per return and an average effective federal income tax rate of 10.1% across all filers. Filers in the $25,000 to under $50,000 bracket, where this salary falls, paid an average of 4.4%, compared with the 7.3% estimated here for a single filer taking the standard deduction. Gaps between the two reflect filing status, dependents, credits and other income, none of which a single-person wage estimate includes.
Cost of living in Haralson County, GA
Take-home pay only means something next to what life costs. We price four basics for one adult in Haralson County, GA: a one-bedroom apartment, food, home energy and gasoline. All of them are converted to annual figures first, then compared with the $36,461 of take-home pay.
Rent
Housing is the largest line in most budgets. For Haralson County, GA, HUD sets the Fair Market Rent for a one-bedroom unit at $782 a month ($9,384 a year), and at $1,023 for two bedrooms. For Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks, a one-bedroom absorbs 25.7% of take-home pay and 20.9% of gross pay.
Food
The USDA Thrifty Food Plan (August 2026) puts the cost of a nutritious home-cooked diet for an adult at about $3,436 a year, which is $286 a month or $66.07 a week. That equals 7.7% of gross pay for Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks in Haralson County, GA. It is a thrifty budget with no restaurant meals, so treat it as a floor.
Energy and gasoline
Using Georgia residential prices from the Energy Information Administration and national household averages for consumption, electricity costs about $1,488 a year and other home energy such as natural gas about $720, for $2,207 in total. Gasoline in Georgia averages $2.95 per gallon; at about 463 gallons a year (11,106 miles at 24 miles per gallon) fuel adds $1,366.
What is left over
Rent, food, energy and gasoline cost $16,393 a year in Haralson County, GA. Subtract that from $36,461 of take-home pay and $20,067 remains, which is $1,672 a month of breathing room. That margin equals 44.7% of gross pay, a comfortable cushion by common budgeting rules.
Local housing and commute data for Haralson County, GA
The budget above covers rent, food, energy and gasoline. Three more local facts shape what a paycheck buys in Haralson County, GA: property taxes, housing prices and the daily commute. The figures below are exact U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates for Haralson County, GA, set beside the Georgia and national medians.
Property taxes in Haralson County, GA
Homeowners in Haralson County, GA pay a median of $1,823 a year in real estate taxes, 22% below the Georgia median of $2,341 and 42% below the U.S. median of $3,119. Against a median home value of $227,500, the median tax bill is 0.80% of that value (the ratio of the two county medians). For a worker paid the local Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks median of $44,850, a tax bill of that size would equal 4.1% of gross pay, which matters for anyone planning to buy rather than rent.
Rents, home prices and household income in Haralson County, GA
Renters in Haralson County, GA pay a median gross rent of $923 a month in the Census survey, 34% below the Georgia median of $1,393. HUD's Fair Market Rent for a one-bedroom apartment, which this site uses in the budget, is $782 a month; the two measures differ because the Census figure covers units of every size that renters already occupy, while the HUD figure is a one-bedroom benchmark. The median value of an owner-occupied home is $227,500, 25% below the Georgia median of $303,300. Median household income is $72,127, 7% below the Georgia median of $77,353, so a year of one-bedroom Fair Market Rent equals 13.0% of that income.
Commuting in Haralson County, GA
Workers in Haralson County, GA who travel to a workplace spend an average of 33.8 minutes each way, 19% above the Georgia average of 28.3. For someone who commutes five days a week, that is 5.6 hours of round-trip travel every week, a cost the budget does not price. 9.6% of workers in Haralson County, GA work from home, compared with 15.1% nationally, which removes the commute for them.
Can Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks afford to live in Haralson County, GA?
The 30% rent guideline
A common rule of thumb says rent should stay under 30% of gross income. For a gross salary of $44,850 that ceiling is $1,121 a month. The one-bedroom Fair Market Rent of $782 is $339 under it, so rent fits the guideline. Put as a wage, covering a one-bedroom at the 30% guideline takes $15.04 an hour; the median for Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks is $21.56, which is 43% above that mark. Another way to see it: at $17.53 of take-home pay an hour, a one-bedroom takes about 10.3 working hours every week.
Splitting a two-bedroom
Sharing a two-bedroom at $1,023 a month means $512 each. Compared with renting a one-bedroom alone, that saves $3,246 a year. With a roommate, the yearly margin after the basics becomes $23,313.
How fast you can save
At $1,672 a month of margin, building a $10,000 emergency fund would take about 6 months. Setting aside half of the margin stretches the same goal to about 12 months. These figures ignore interest, raises and any spending beyond the four basics.
Frequently asked questions about Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks pay in Haralson County, GA
How much do Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks make per hour in Haralson County, GA?
The median is $21.56 per hour, based on $44,850 a year over 2,080 hours. Hourly pay runs from about $16.51 at the 10th percentile to $30.24 at the 90th percentile.
How much do Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks take home after taxes in Haralson County, GA?
After federal income tax, FICA and state income tax, the median salary of $44,850 becomes $36,461 a year. That is $3,038 a month, $1,402 every two weeks or $701 a week.
How much tax do Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks pay in Haralson County, GA?
Total taxes are $8,389 a year, an effective rate of 18.7%: $3,254 federal income tax, $3,431 FICA and $1,705 Georgia income tax.
Do Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks earn more in Haralson County, GA than elsewhere in Georgia?
Yes. The local median of $44,850 is +3.3% versus the Georgia average of $43,419, a difference of $1,431 a year.
Can Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks afford a one-bedroom apartment in Haralson County, GA?
A one-bedroom costs $782 a month against take-home pay of $3,038, which is 25.7% of take-home pay. That meets the 30%-of-gross guideline, which allows up to $1,121 a month.
What is the monthly budget margin for Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks in Haralson County, GA?
About $1,672 a month ($20,067 a year) remains after a one-bedroom apartment, food, home energy and gasoline, which together cost $16,393 a year.
What hourly wage covers a one-bedroom in Haralson County, GA at the 30% guideline?
$15.04 an hour for a full-time schedule, calculated as the $9,384 annual rent divided by 0.30 and by 2,080 hours. The median for Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks is $21.56.
How we calculated these numbers
Wages are May 2025 medians from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey for the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metropolitan area; hourly-only values are annualized at 2,080 hours. Rents are HUD Fair Market Rents, food costs come from the USDA Thrifty Food Plan, and energy prices come from the Energy Information Administration. County-level tax statistics come from the IRS Statistics of Income.
Taxes use tax-year 2025 federal brackets, FICA rates and the Georgia rules for a single filer with wage income only. Figures are estimates for planning and comparison, not tax or financial advice, and they exclude local income taxes, benefits, retirement contributions and individual circumstances.