Tellers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Tellers offer sit among all 339,340 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 339,340, or 0.22% of the U.S. total. Texas leads the state table with 26,390 jobs; the top three states sum to 20.4% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: North Dakota posts a location quotient of 2.13, 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 $48,270, which is 1.5 times the $31,270 at the 10th, a difference of $17,000 annually. Because the mean wage ($40,940) sits above the median ($39,340), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

Washington posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $46,890, and Texas the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Tellers stands number 109 by employment and number 713 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 18% less than its group median, and it supplies 1.9% of the group's 18,218,060 jobs. In 23 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $39,340, 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 17,880 jobs, 5.3% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 393 metros BLS publishes for this occupation: where the jobs are, then where the money is, with the pay ranking restricted to metros employing at least 500 people in this occupation to keep small samples out of the lead.

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, $28,600 a year, against $52,860 in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. The lowest-paying large metro and the highest are both real markets for this occupation; the difference between them is the geography premium, or penalty, in cash terms.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

Budget arithmetic on the median: $3,278 a month before tax, $1,513 biweekly, $757 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($36,420) to the 75th ($45,550) is worth $9,130 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 $43,274 would sit between the median ($39,340) and the 75th percentile ($45,550), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $36,420, is $2,920 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

Pay for the neighboring roles in the same BLS major group: Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping, Brokerage Clerks, New Accounts Clerks, Financial Clerks, All Other, Word Processors and Typists, Switchboard Operators, Including Answering Service. The full directory is on the Careers hub.