New Accounts Clerks Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given New Accounts Clerks offer sit among all 38,030 workers doing this job? The survey top-codes at $239,200+ and withholds unreliable cells, shown as n/p in the table.

Employment and concentration

May 2024 employment stood at 38,030, or 0.02% of the U.S. total. New York leads the state table with 4,480 jobs; the top three states sum to 30.9% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: Oklahoma posts a location quotient of 4.30, 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 $60,110, which is 1.6 times the $36,980 at the 10th, a difference of $23,130 annually. Because the mean wage ($47,610) sits above the median ($46,610), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

Every state with a publishable estimate is in this table, 46 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is North Dakota at $56,510; the jobs leader is New York:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, New Accounts Clerks stands number 436 by employment and number 608 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% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.2% of the group's 18,218,060 jobs. In 20 of the 45 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $46,610, 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 2,310 jobs, 6.1% of the national total. The first table ranks metros by employment; the second ranks them by mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs in the occupation, because a three-person metro can top a pay table by accident.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Kansas City, MO-KS posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $44,150 a year, against $57,190 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. A gap that size between two metro labor markets is why the same occupation title can fund two very different budgets in two different cities.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median New Accounts Clerks paycheck, gross, is $1,793 every two weeks on an annual $46,610, which is $3,884 a month and $896 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($40,050) to the 75th ($51,510) is worth $11,460 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 $51,271 would sit between the median ($46,610) and the 75th percentile ($51,510), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $40,050, is $6,560 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

Sibling occupations in Office and Administrative Support Occupations: Financial Clerks, All Other, Word Processors and Typists, Switchboard Operators, Including Answering Service, Office Machine Operators, Except Computer, Meter Readers, Utilities, Gambling Cage Workers. Medians there are computed identically, so the comparison is apples to apples; the full set lives on the Careers hub.