Billing and Posting Clerks in Mississippi
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$33,721
after federal, FICA and Mississippi tax
Tax takes
$7,469
18.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$38,630
Mississippi costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Mississippi — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$41,190
Kept after tax
$33,721
Worth in national money
$38,630
State rank
48
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for billing and posting clerks is on the low side in Mississippi. The middle earner gets $41,190. That is 48 of 51 states, and about 15.07% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Billing and posting clerks ranks 319 among 486 occupations Mississippi publishes pay for.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $41,190 you keep $33,721 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $38,630 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $42,770, since top earners drag the number up.
- For billing and posting clerks, Mississippi sits in the lower band at $41,190, ranking 48 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 15.07%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Position 319 of 486 in Mississippi places billing and posting clerks in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Retained pay in Mississippi is $33,721 after the full tax stack, from $41,190. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $38,630 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $42,770 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Billing and Posting Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $31,050 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $41,190 |
| Top tenth earn over | $58,240 |
| This salary | $41,190 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Mississippi | $33,721 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $35,276 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,328 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $39,254 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,815 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 87 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Mississippi earn less than $41,190. The published range is $31,050 up to $58,240, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Mississippi's $33,721, worked from $41,190. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 319 of 486.
- Two cautions on $38,630, the adjusted value of that $41,190 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Mississippi. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 319 of 486 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for billing and posting clerks in Mississippi the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $31,050 to $58,240. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Mississippi take-home of $33,721, on $41,190 for work ranking 319 of 486 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 319 of 486 in the state.
- This $38,630 adjusted figure, worked from $41,190, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 319 of 486 in the state. The occupation ranks 319 of 486 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $42,770 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $31,050 at the tenth percentile, $58,240 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Mississippi is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $38,630 in national terms.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Mississippi's own levy, $33,721 remains.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Mississippi is $42,770. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($31,050 to $58,240) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Mississippi rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Mississippi's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $38,630 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $33,721 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Mississippi income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.