Financial Clerks, All Other 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 ($38,770) to the 90th ($75,860). 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 37,030, or 0.02% of the U.S. total. Texas leads the state table with 5,570 jobs; the top three states sum to 30.5% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: Delaware posts a location quotient of 3.91, 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: $46,350 at the 25th percentile, $52,150 at the middle, $61,190 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $37,090, a ratio of 2.0 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

The state spread for Financial Clerks, All Other runs from the $61,210 median in Massachusetts down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in Texas (5,570 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Financial Clerks, All Other stands number 441 by employment and number 489 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 9% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.2% of the group's 18,218,060 jobs. In 20 of the 47 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $52,150, 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 2,900 jobs, 7.8% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 98 metros BLS publishes for this occupation: where the jobs are, then where the money is, with the pay ranking restricted to metros employing at least 500 people in this occupation to keep small samples out of the lead.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Cleveland, OH posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $50,810 a year, against $65,910 in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC. The lowest-paying large metro and the highest are both real markets for this occupation; the difference between them is the geography premium, or penalty, in cash terms.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

Budget arithmetic on the median: $4,346 a month before tax, $2,006 biweekly, $1,003 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($46,350) to the 75th ($61,190) is worth $14,840 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 $57,365 would sit between the median ($52,150) and the 75th percentile ($61,190), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $46,350, is $5,800 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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