Credit Authorizers, Checkers, and 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 ($34,590) to the 90th ($71,730). 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

May 2024 employment stood at 11,960, or 0.01% of the U.S. total. California leads the state table with 1,010 jobs; the top three states sum to 21.9% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: Delaware posts a location quotient of 11.54, so a worker there is far more likely to meet a colleague in this field than the national pattern suggests.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $40,850 at the 25th percentile, $49,130 at the middle, $59,530 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $37,140, a ratio of 2.1 to 1. Where a specific job offer lands on that range says more about the role's level than the occupation's headline median does.

Pay by state

Sorted by employment, the table below puts California first at 1,010 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, Illinois would lead at $65,270. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Credit Authorizers, Checkers, and Clerks stands number 664 by employment and number 544 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 3% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.1% of the group's 18,218,060 jobs. In 18 of the 34 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $49,130, 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 730 jobs, 6.1% 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, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $52,970 a year, against $60,590 in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX. 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

The median Credit Authorizers, Checkers, and Clerks paycheck, gross, is $1,890 every two weeks on an annual $49,130, which is $4,094 a month and $945 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($40,850) to the 75th ($59,530) is worth $18,680 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Gross is a starting point, not a budget: the paycheck calculator nets it down by state, an offer comparison lives in the salary calculator, and the raise vs inflation calculator separates a real raise from a nominal one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $54,043 would sit between the median ($49,130) and the 75th percentile ($59,530), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $40,850, is $8,280 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

The occupations BLS groups with this one, by size: Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other, Loan Interviewers and Clerks, Court, Municipal, and License Clerks, Bill and Account Collectors, Interviewers, Except Eligibility and Loan, Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.