Billing and Posting Clerks
United States. Estimated employment 404,060, with pages for 25 metro areas below.
Data released May 2025
BLS OEWS · SOC 43-3021
Fig. 1 — The wage rule
Where you sit in the distribution
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$48,500 · 50th
$37,29010th
$42,84025th
$48,50050th
$58,29075th
$67,71090th
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in the US earn more.
Table 1 — By metro area
Where it pays
Every published Billing and Posting Clerks page, by median pay. Employment is the BLS estimate for the metro.
| Metro area | Median | Employment |
|---|---|---|
| San Jose, CA | $70,280 | 2,350 |
| San Francisco, CA | $66,390 | 4,690 |
| Napa, CA | $59,810 | 120 |
| Santa Cruz, CA | $58,400 | 210 |
| Santa Rosa, CA | $58,350 | 350 |
| Oxnard, CA | $58,250 | 790 |
| Sacramento, CA | $58,190 | 2,550 |
| New York, NY | $56,160 | 32,930 |
| San Diego, CA | $55,260 | 3,610 |
| Los Angeles, CA | $53,070 | 16,670 |
| Chicago, IL | $49,960 | 13,610 |
| Utica, NY | $49,460 | 410 |
| Kingston, NY | $49,080 | 180 |
| Albany, NY | $49,030 | 1,110 |
| Kiryas Joel, NY | $48,500 | 1,100 |
| Syracuse, NY | $48,230 | 1,250 |
| Ithaca, NY | $48,060 | 180 |
| Buffalo, NY | $47,950 | 2,000 |
| Champaign, IL | $47,500 | 250 |
| Peoria, IL | $47,320 | 550 |
| Rockford, IL | $46,540 | 340 |
| Decatur, IL | $46,330 | 130 |
| Springfield, IL | $45,570 | 490 |
| Bloomington, IL | $45,020 | 200 |
| Kankakee, IL | $41,290 | 180 |
Sources
How this page was made
- Wage data
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
- Employment
- 404,060 employed in this occupation nationally (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 43-3021, Billing and Posting Clerks. Mapped to our taxonomy as billing-and-posting-clerks.
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