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Office Clerks, General

Ponce, PR metropolitan area. Estimated employment 1,560.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 43-9061
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

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$23,070 · 50th
$21,84010th
$21,84025th
$23,07050th
$30,03075th
$31,32090th

That is the medianhalf of people in this occupation in Ponce 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.

Metro areaMedianvs. Ponce
San Juan$24,580+6.5%
Arecibo$23,090+0.1%
Ponce This page$23,070
Guayama$22,600−2.0%
Aguadilla$22,240−3.6%
Mayaguez$22,120−4.1%
Fig. 2 — Five-year trend

Nominal against real

The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.

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Nominal, as published Real, in 2025 dollars US$ thousands

Published pay rose 30.6% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it still rose 9.9% — 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
1,560 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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