Procurement Clerks Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Procurement Clerks offer sit among all 59,900 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

The occupation employed 59,900 people in May 2024, 0.04% of every job BLS counted. California is the largest employer at 7,290 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 26.1% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Tennessee, whose location quotient of 3.21 says this work is 3.21 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $41,240 at the 25th percentile, $48,510 at the middle, $57,680 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $29,080, 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

The state spread for Procurement Clerks runs from the $63,610 median in District of Columbia down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in California (7,290 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Procurement Clerks stands number 357 by employment and number 559 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 0.3% 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 $48,510, 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 3,720 jobs, 6.2% 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, Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $46,280 a year, against $64,280 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

As a household number, $48,510 a year is $4,042 a month gross, $1,866 every two weeks, $933 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($41,240) to the 75th ($57,680) is worth $16,440 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 $4,042 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 $53,361 would sit between the median ($48,510) and the 75th percentile ($57,680), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $41,240, is $7,270 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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