Jobs at Costco

Published on 09/01/2026 by Zuleyda

Costco warehouses keep advertising for cashier assistants, stockers, food service assistants, meat assistants, member service assistants and tire installers. None of these beginner jobs pays less than $20.00 an hour, and meat and tire roles average above $22.

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Nearly every warehouse posts these six roles. When a new location gets ready to open, it advertises all of them in the same few weeks.

🧭 Mapped out below

  • Shift patterns and pay for six roles
  • How hard each one is on your body
  • Why new warehouses are the easiest door in
  • Costco’s own application site

Six Costco warehouse jobs open to beginners

Cashier Assistant

Checkout
📍 Registers and exit door 🕒 Full- or part-time, weekends included 💵 Starts at $20.00/hr

Pack bulky orders into boxes, help the cashier keep each lane moving and bring carts in from the parking lot.

✅ Worth a try if you: enjoy a quick pace and chatting with people

Stocker

Before opening
📍 Loading bay, then the aisles 🕒 Early starts, some overnight crews 💵 Starts at $20.00/hr

Unload the morning trucks, split pallets with a pallet jack and fill the steel racks before members walk in.

✅ Worth a try if you: are strong and don’t mind an early alarm

Food Service Assistant

Counter service
📍 Counter, ovens and seating area 🕒 Lunch and dinner rushes, weekends 💵 Starts at $20.00/hr

Bake pizzas, grill hot dogs, take orders at the till and wipe down tables between rushes.

✅ Worth a try if you: have worked a fast food or kitchen job

Meat Assistant

Chilled room
📍 Behind the butcher’s glass 🕒 Mostly early day shifts 💵 Cutters earn about $22.20/hr

Wrap, weigh and label each cut, scrub the saws and grinders, and train on knife work if you want to become a meat cutter.

✅ Worth a try if you: can stay focused in a cold, wet room

Member Service Assistant

Membership desk
📍 Entrance and returns counter 🕒 Opening, closing and Saturday shifts 💵 Starts at $20.00/hr

Sign up new members, snap the photo for their card, process returns and greet people at the entrance.

✅ Worth a try if you: stay polite when someone is annoyed

Tire Installer

Tire centre
📍 Service bays beside the warehouse 🕒 Day shifts, packed in spring and fall 💵 Technicians earn about $22.80/hr

Mount and balance tires, torque the wheel nuts and swap members’ winter and summer sets during changeover season.

✅ Worth a try if you: like tools, cars and physical work

How hard each Costco job works you, and what it pays

All six jobs start at Costco’s company floor of $20.00 or higher. What really separates them is how much lifting, cold and weather each one involves.

Warehouse job and effort Pay
Cashier assistant
On your feet, medium lifting		$20.00+
Stocker
Heaviest lifting of the six		$20.00+
Food service assistant
Hot ovens, quick service		$20.00+
Meat assistant
Cold room, sharp tools		$20.00+
cutters ~$22.20
Member service assistant
Lightest physically, most talking		$20.00+
Tire installer
Heavy wheels, outdoor air		$20.00+
techs ~$22.80

💡 A brand-new warehouse is the easiest door in: it has to fill every position at once, so there are far more openings than at an established warehouse. Anyone within driving distance of northeast Edmonton, Lloydminster, east Windsor or Wasaga Beach should apply to that location now.

Sending your Costco application online

Go to Costco’s job page, choose Canada and select the warehouse you can reach without trouble. Fill in every availability box honestly, because schedulers build shifts from what you enter there.

Choose a warehouse and see which Costco positions it has open today.

Applications go straight to Costco through its official hiring site.

Apply at Costco

The $20.00 figure is the starting rate Costco sets for every entry-level job; the meat cutter and tire technician figures are Indeed averages reported by Costco employees in Canada. Exact pay depends on the warehouse and your hours.