Information and Record Clerks, All Other Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

A percentile marks a point in this occupation's pay distribution: the worker one quarter of the way up the Information and Record Clerks, All Other ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $39,610. BLS top-codes very high wages ($239,200+ a year, $115.00+ an hour) and marks estimates it cannot publish as n/p.

Employment and concentration

May 2024 employment stood at 143,910, or 0.09% of the U.S. total. California leads the state table with 20,630 jobs; the top three states sum to 35.5% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: Colorado posts a location quotient of 4.94, so a worker there is far more likely to meet a colleague in this field than the national pattern suggests.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $68,850, which is 2.0 times the $34,170 at the 10th, a difference of $34,680 annually. Because the mean wage ($50,200) sits above the median ($48,360), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

The state spread for Information and Record Clerks, All Other runs from the $67,100 median in District of Columbia down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in California (20,630 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Information and Record Clerks, All Other stands number 212 by employment and number 567 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 1% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.8% of the group's 18,218,060 jobs. In 25 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $48,360, 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

Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO is the largest metro employer with 7,080 jobs, 4.9% 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, Greensboro-High Point, NC posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $31,360 a year, against $69,870 in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, 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

Budget arithmetic on the median: $4,030 a month before tax, $1,860 biweekly, $930 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($39,610) to the 75th ($58,680) is worth $19,070 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 $53,196 would sit between the median ($48,360) and the 75th percentile ($58,680), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $39,610, is $8,750 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

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