Office Clerks, General
Arecibo, PR metropolitan area. Estimated employment 760.
Data released May 2025
BLS OEWS · SOC 43-9061
Fig. 1 — The wage rule
Where you sit in the distribution
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$23,090 · 50th
$21,84010th
$21,88025th
$23,09050th
$27,14075th
$32,49090th
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in Arecibo earn more.
Table 1 — Nearby metros
The same job, elsewhere in Puerto Rico
Median annual pay for Office Clerks, General across Puerto Rico metro areas, from the same federal release.
Fig. 2 — Five-year trend
Nominal against real
The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.
Nominal, as published
Real, in 2025 dollars
US$ thousands
Published pay rose 29.8% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it still rose 9.2% — pay has outrun prices since 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.
Sources
How this page was made
- Wage data
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
- Inflation
- Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
- Employment
- 760 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 43-9061, Office Clerks, General. Mapped to our taxonomy as office-clerks-general.
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