Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping offer sit among all 49,720 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

With 49,720 jobs nationally, Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping make up 0.03% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: California alone holds 9,120 of those jobs, the top three states hold 33.4%, and the deepest concentration sits in Maine (location quotient 1.97, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $38,650 at the 25th percentile, $45,650 at the middle, $53,060 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $25,540, a ratio of 1.7 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

Wyoming posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $51,720, and California the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping stands number 390 by employment and number 632 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 5% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.3% of the group's 18,218,060 jobs. In 24 of the 48 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $45,650, 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 2,760 jobs, 5.6% 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, Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $41,020 a year, against $53,270 in Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN. 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

Budget arithmetic on the median: $3,804 a month before tax, $1,756 biweekly, $878 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($38,650) to the 75th ($53,060) is worth $14,410 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 $50,215 would sit between the median ($45,650) and the 75th percentile ($53,060), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $38,650, is $7,000 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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