Billing and Posting Clerks
What the pay figures show
- Two answers for billing and posting clerks. Best paid: the District of Columbia, at $64,330. Tax does not change that. Best off: North Dakota, at $46,504 once local prices count. Tax was not what separated them. Rent was.
- The District of Columbia's $64,330 median for billing and posting clerks survives the tax adjustment intact, so state income tax is not a differentiator in this occupation's geography. It does not survive price deflation: North Dakota takes the top position at $46,504. Housing is where regional price variation concentrates, which is why the reordering appears at this step and not the previous one.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$48,500
People doing it
404,060
Highest paid
$64,330
DC
Best off, really
$46,504
ND, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$37,290
Highest tenth
$67,710
Lowest, really
$35,847
AL
States with data
51
National average
$51,070
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
88.57%
ND, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Nationally, this job pays within a fairly narrow band. Adjust for tax and for local prices and the band tightens again, to between $35,847 and $46,504. Geography is not the main lever on pay here.
- 404,060 people do this job across the country, and the middle one earns $48,500. Common work, though not one of the giants.
- No gaps here — all 51 jurisdictions publish a number for this job, which sits at $48,500 in the middle.
- Wages for billing and posting clerks cluster comparatively tightly across states, and the clustering strengthens after tax and price deflation — a real range of $35,847 to $46,504. Occupation-level factors such as specialisation and employer type therefore explain more of an individual's pay here than location does.
- National employment in billing and posting clerks is 404,060 — a substantial occupation, though an order of magnitude below the largest. Regional differentials here move real aggregate sums without dominating any single state's wage bill.
- 51 jurisdictions report billing and posting clerks, giving full coverage. The extremes quoted above are therefore the true reported maximum and minimum.
Pay band: Billing and Posting Clerks
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $37,290 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $48,500 |
| Top tenth earn over | $67,710 |
| This salary | $48,500 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
Where these numbers come from
| BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates, time-series bulk download (oe.data.0.Current) | as of 2025-05-01 |
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Steps in Billing and Posting Clerks
The national median for this job
$48,500around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $37,290 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $48,500 |
| Top tenth | $67,710 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Billing and Posting Clerks, state by state
The national median for this job
51states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Arkansas · $38,780 |
|---|---|
| Highest | District of Columbia · $64,330 |
| Spread | $25,550 |
One dot per state that publishes this job. A missing state means suppressed data, not zero pay.
Best paid, and best off
The national median for this job
| Texas pays | $45,910 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $47,245 |
Median pay against the same pay once BEA price parities are applied.
Every state, three ways
Sorted by what the money is actually worth. "Kept" is take-home for a single filer after federal, FICA and state income tax. "Really worth" divides that by the state's own price level, so a dollar in each row buys the same thing. Tap a state to put your own salary into it. States BLS does not publish for this job are absent — that means no published figure, not no work.
| State | Median pay | Kept after tax | Really worth |
|---|---|---|---|
| ND | $48,550 | $41,190 | $46,504 |
| DC | $64,330 | $51,134 | $46,148 |
| MN | $55,810 | $44,752 | $45,471 |
| SD | $46,180 | $39,286 | $44,595 |
| IA | $47,110 | $38,855 | $43,771 |
| WA | $56,090 | $47,248 | $43,522 |
| AK | $52,170 | $44,099 | $43,355 |
| NE | $47,410 | $38,820 | $42,954 |
| VT | $50,730 | $41,498 | $42,943 |
| TN | $46,330 | $39,406 | $42,594 |
| RI | $52,910 | $43,129 | $42,529 |
| MT | $46,730 | $38,288 | $42,427 |
| OH | $46,390 | $38,895 | $42,364 |
| WI | $48,230 | $39,409 | $42,331 |
| CO | $52,670 | $42,891 | $42,307 |
| NM | $46,120 | $38,222 | $42,287 |
| WY | $44,880 | $38,241 | $42,093 |
| DE | $52,110 | $41,725 | $42,039 |
| MO | $46,760 | $38,491 | $41,947 |
| OK | $45,120 | $36,904 | $41,801 |
| NV | $47,430 | $40,290 | $41,545 |
| ID | $46,440 | $37,887 | $41,440 |
| MA | $56,110 | $44,779 | $41,371 |
| IN | $46,400 | $38,123 | $41,355 |
| KS | $46,420 | $37,177 | $41,324 |
| KY | $45,590 | $37,334 | $41,267 |
| NC | $47,160 | $38,700 | $41,110 |
| NH | $50,710 | $42,925 | $40,748 |
| LA | $43,170 | $35,958 | $40,702 |
| CA | $56,260 | $45,817 | $40,697 |
| SC | $45,250 | $37,854 | $40,626 |
| MI | $46,890 | $38,114 | $40,468 |
| MD | $52,210 | $42,014 | $40,412 |
| CT | $52,000 | $41,852 | $40,363 |
| IL | $49,730 | $39,821 | $40,282 |
| TX | $45,910 | $39,069 | $40,204 |
| ME | $47,840 | $38,710 | $39,868 |
| GA | $47,390 | $38,492 | $39,806 |
| NY | $53,320 | $42,740 | $39,712 |
| UT | $46,470 | $37,451 | $39,421 |
| PA | $46,890 | $38,417 | $39,402 |
| AZ | $47,730 | $39,740 | $39,306 |
| NJ | $51,750 | $42,450 | $38,987 |
| MS | $41,190 | $33,721 | $38,630 |
| FL | $46,540 | $39,575 | $38,254 |
| VA | $47,580 | $38,435 | $38,150 |
| OR | $51,860 | $39,862 | $38,065 |
| HI | $51,240 | $40,896 | $37,654 |
| AR | $38,780 | $32,363 | $37,411 |
| WV | $39,300 | $32,736 | $36,466 |
| AL | $39,520 | $32,251 | $35,847 |
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle of the range, not a starting salary and not an offer. Half of billing and posting clerks earn less than the figures here and half earn more, and experience, employer and city move an individual a long way from the middle. Nationally the middle earns $48,500.
- The take-home numbers here use the simplest possible household: one filer for billing and posting clerks, no children, no pension contributions, standard deduction. Real life usually reduces the tax bill below this. City and school-district income taxes are left out, and in Ohio or Pennsylvania that is a real omission. The best after-tax state here is the District of Columbia, at $51,134.
- The price adjustment for billing and posting clerks uses a statewide figure, and states are not uniform. A city and a rural county in the same state can differ more from each other than two states do, so treat the real-terms comparison as a direction rather than a precise answer — Alabama anchors the bottom at $35,847. The wage data and the price data also come from different years, because that is how each is published.
- Figures are medians of the published wage distribution for billing and posting clerks, not entry-level or offer wages. The national median is $48,500, with half of workers below it; dispersion within a state routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, driven by tenure, employer size, sector and metropolitan area. An individual's position in the distribution is not predictable from geography alone.
- Retained-pay figures for billing and posting clerks model a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax deferrals — deliberately the simplest household, so the comparison across states isolates geography rather than personal circumstances. Local income taxes are outside the model; Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland residents should expect a meaningfully lower figure than $51,134, which leads in the District of Columbia.
- Real-terms figures for billing and posting clerks deflate take-home by a statewide regional price parity, which conceals substantial intra-state variation — metropolitan and non-metropolitan price levels within one state frequently differ by more than two states differ from each other. The wage and price series also carry different reference periods, as each is published on its own schedule, so the adjustment is directionally sound rather than precisely dated.