Insurance Claims and Policy Processing 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 ($36,900) to the 90th ($73,100). 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

The occupation employed 229,070 people in May 2024, 0.15% of every job BLS counted. Texas is the largest employer at 28,160 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 30.8% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Tennessee, whose location quotient of 1.81 says this work is 1.81 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $36,200 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($73,100) is 2.0 times the 10th percentile ($36,900), a gap of $36,200 a year. The mean of $51,980 sitting above the median of $48,450 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

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 Washington at $59,190; the jobs leader is Texas:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks stands number 148 by employment and number 562 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 1.3% of the group's 18,218,060 jobs. In 22 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $48,450, 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 9,400 jobs, 4.1% 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, San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $30,810 a year, against $65,890 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: $4,038 a month before tax, $1,863 biweekly, $932 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($41,600) to the 75th ($59,500) is worth $17,900 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 $53,295 would sit between the median ($48,450) and the 75th percentile ($59,500), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $41,600, is $6,850 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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