Bill and Account Collectors Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Read the ladder vertically: each row is the wage of the Bill and Account Collectors worker at that point in the distribution, so $54,990 at the 75th percentile means three quarters of the occupation earns less. Figures BLS cannot publish appear as n/p, and its top code prints as $239,200+.

Employment and concentration

The occupation employed 165,020 people in May 2024, 0.11% of every job BLS counted. Texas is the largest employer at 20,800 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 29.8% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in South Dakota, whose location quotient of 2.67 says this work is 2.67 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $65,830, which is 1.9 times the $33,960 at the 10th, a difference of $31,870 annually. Because the mean wage ($48,370) sits above the median ($46,040), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

Every state with a publishable estimate is in this table, 51 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is Alaska at $58,070; the jobs leader is Texas:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Bill and Account Collectors stands number 188 by employment and number 621 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Office and Administrative Support Occupations, the group median wage is $47,850 across 54 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 4% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.9% of the group's 18,218,060 jobs. In 21 of the 50 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $46,040, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX is the largest metro employer with 8,490 jobs, 5.1% of the national total. Below, the biggest employers come first; the pay table after it only counts metros with 500 or more jobs in the occupation, so its leader is a real market and not a statistical artifact.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $27,380 a year, against $76,140 in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. Anyone relocating for this work should price the destination metro's table row, not the national median, before signing anything.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

As a household number, $46,040 a year is $3,837 a month gross, $1,771 every two weeks, $885 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($38,290) to the 75th ($54,990) is worth $16,700 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. The next step from a gross figure is a net one: run the $3,837 monthly figure through the paycheck calculator applies your state's taxes, the salary calculator compares two offers in any unit, and the raise vs inflation calculator tells you whether a nominal raise is a real one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $50,644 would sit between the median ($46,040) and the 75th percentile ($54,990), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $38,290, is $7,750 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Sibling occupations in Office and Administrative Support Occupations: Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks, Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators, Public Safety Telecommunicators, Cargo and Freight Agents, Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping, Order Clerks. Medians there are computed identically, so the comparison is apples to apples; the full set lives on the Careers hub.