Court, Municipal, and License Clerks Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

The five rows are five different workers in the same occupation, from the 10th percentile ($34,860) to the 90th ($72,370). BLS suppresses cells that fail its reliability rules (n/p here) and caps the highest wages at $239,200+ a year or $115.00+ an hour; in this ladder that top code appears at the very top rows only.

Employment and concentration

With 170,010 jobs nationally, Court, Municipal, and License Clerks make up 0.11% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: Texas alone holds 14,030 of those jobs, the top three states hold 23.1%, and the deepest concentration sits in Wyoming (location quotient 2.64, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $37,510 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($72,370) is 2.1 times the 10th percentile ($34,860), a gap of $37,510 a year. The mean of $51,200 sitting above the median of $47,700 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

Washington posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $62,460, and Texas the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Court, Municipal, and License Clerks stands number 186 by employment and number 575 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 0% 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 $47,700, 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

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 9,090 jobs, 5.3% of the national total. Employment rank and pay rank are different lists: the second table re-sorts metros with at least 500 jobs in this occupation by mean pay, the floor keeping a handful of workers from posing as a market.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Tulsa, OK posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $41,240 a year, against $80,680 in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. That is the metro effect in one line: identical job title, materially different pay, decided mostly by which labor market the job sits in.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

Budget arithmetic on the median: $3,975 a month before tax, $1,835 biweekly, $917 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($39,730) to the 75th ($59,590) is worth $19,860 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. To turn any of these gross figures into spendable money, run them through the paycheck calculator; to weigh an offer against your current role, use the salary calculator; to test a raise against prices, the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $52,470 would sit between the median ($47,700) and the 75th percentile ($59,590), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $39,730, is $7,970 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

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