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Occupation · Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks

SOC 43-5071.00 · 86,171 matched workers · high confidence

Strong Democratic lean
61.4% Democratic, 38.6% Republican

Two-party shares across 86,171 workers in this occupation matched to voter registration records.

61.4%
38.6%
DemocraticRepublican
Imputed
60.3% D · 39.7% R
Includes lean for unaffiliated registrants
Major group
Office and Administrative Support Occupations
SOC major code 43-0000
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Where Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks falls

Near the middle of occupations in Office and Administrative Support Occupations (57th percentile).

← DemocraticRepublican →Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants — 60% DemocraticCustomer Service Representatives — 64% DemocraticBilling and Posting Clerks — 57% DemocraticTellers — 55% DemocraticOffice and Administrative Support Workers, All Other — 59% DemocraticNew Accounts Clerks — 57% DemocraticProcurement Clerks — 54% DemocraticLegal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants — 62% DemocraticBookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks — 53% DemocraticReceptionists and Information Clerks — 63% DemocraticLoan Interviewers and Clerks — 52% DemocraticInsurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks — 59% DemocraticMedical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants — 62% DemocraticPayroll and Timekeeping Clerks — 56% DemocraticFinancial Clerks, All Other — 55% DemocraticHotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks — 69% DemocraticProduction, Planning, and Expediting Clerks — 54% DemocraticLibrary Assistants, Clerical — 72% DemocraticOrder Clerks — 59% DemocraticBill and Account Collectors — 60% DemocraticEligibility Interviewers, Government Programs — 66% DemocraticDispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance — 55% DemocraticOffice Clerks, General — 63% DemocraticFirst-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers — 58% DemocraticInformation and Record Clerks, All Other — 64% DemocraticHuman Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping — 61% DemocraticCredit Authorizers, Checkers, and Clerks — 60% DemocraticBrokerage Clerks — 56% DemocraticDesktop Publishers — 71% DemocraticCouriers and Messengers — 61% DemocraticOffice Machine Operators, Except Computer — 64% DemocraticData Entry Keyers — 68% DemocraticFile Clerks — 66% DemocraticCourt, Municipal, and License Clerks — 59% DemocraticCargo and Freight Agents — 56% DemocraticPublic Safety Telecommunicators — 54% DemocraticFreight Forwarders — 54% DemocraticSecretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive — 66% DemocraticPostal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators — 65% DemocraticStatistical Assistants — 60% DemocraticReservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks — 65% DemocraticTelephone Operators — 67% DemocraticMail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service — 67% DemocraticProofreaders and Copy Markers — 75% DemocraticCorrespondence Clerks — 65% DemocraticInterviewers, Except Eligibility and Loan — 69% DemocraticCommunications Equipment Operators, All Other — 46% DemocraticWeighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping — 61% DemocraticMeter Readers, Utilities — 50% DemocraticGambling Cage Workers — 58% DemocraticSwitchboard Operators, Including Answering Service — 63% DemocraticPostal Service Clerks — 61% DemocraticWord Processors and Typists — 59% DemocraticShipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks — 61% Democratic0%25%50%75%100%
Each dot is one of the 53 other occupations in Office and Administrative Support Occupations; size scales by worker count. Hover to see names — click to jump.

How this is measured

VRscores estimate the partisan composition of an occupation by linking voter registration records to employment profiles. Each worker is assigned to one occupation per year. The two-party shares above exclude workers with no major-party affiliation.

Read the full methodology or the published Organization Science paper.

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Citation

Kagan, Max; Frake, Justin; Hurst, Reuben (2026). “VRscores: A New Measure and Data Set of Workforce Politics Using Voter Registrations.” Organization Science, 37(2), 444–465.
https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2025.20402