Order Clerks Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Read the ladder vertically: each row is the wage of the Order Clerks worker at that point in the distribution, so $51,890 at the 75th percentile means three quarters of the occupation earns less. Figures BLS cannot publish appear as n/p, and its top code prints as $239,200+.

Employment and concentration

May 2024 employment stood at 83,420, or 0.05% of the U.S. total. California leads the state table with 13,240 jobs; the top three states sum to 29.4% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: Washington posts a location quotient of 2.67, 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: $38,110 at the 25th percentile, $44,660 at the middle, $51,890 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $28,150, a ratio of 1.8 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 13,240 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, Massachusetts would lead at $54,350. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Order Clerks stands number 294 by employment and number 647 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 7% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.5% of the group's 18,218,060 jobs. In 20 of the 49 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $44,660, 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

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA is the largest metro employer with 5,540 jobs, 6.6% 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, San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $38,690 a year, against $62,570 in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. 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

As a household number, $44,660 a year is $3,722 a month gross, $1,718 every two weeks, $859 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($38,110) to the 75th ($51,890) is worth $13,780 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. The next step from a gross figure is a net one: run the $3,722 monthly figure through the paycheck calculator applies your state's taxes, the salary calculator compares two offers in any unit, and the raise vs inflation calculator tells you whether a nominal raise is a real one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $49,126 would sit between the median ($44,660) and the 75th percentile ($51,890), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $38,110, is $6,550 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: Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants, Billing and Posting Clerks, Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks, Tellers, Postal Service Mail Carriers, Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.