Billing and Posting Clerks in Oregon
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$39,862
after federal, FICA and Oregon tax
Tax takes
$11,998
23.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$38,065
Oregon costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Oregon — 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
$51,860
Kept after tax
$39,862
Worth in national money
$38,065
State rank
13
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Oregon pays billing and posting clerks a middle wage of $51,860, ranking 13 of 51 states and sitting about 6.93% above the national middle.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Billing and posting clerks ranks 338 among 489 occupations Oregon publishes pay for.
- Oregon is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $51,860 the take-home is $39,862; in national-average money that behaves like $38,065. The average comes to $53,690, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Oregon's median for billing and posting clerks is $51,860, about 6.93% above the national figure and 13 of 51 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Position 338 of 489 in Oregon 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.
- Take-home for billing and posting clerks in Oregon, on $51,860, is $39,862; deflated by the state's price level, $38,065. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $53,690 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Billing and Posting Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $41,410 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $51,860 |
| Top tenth earn over | $65,070 |
| This salary | $51,860 |
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 Oregon | $39,862 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $43,850 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$7,059 |
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 | $46,897 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$8,538 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of billing and posting clerks in Oregon earn under $51,860 and half over. The published range runs $41,410 at the tenth percentile to $65,070 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $39,862 take-home in Oregon comes from $51,860. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 338 of 489.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $38,065 uses one figure for the whole of Oregon. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 489 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 338.
- Figures are distribution medians for billing and posting clerks in Oregon, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $41,410 to $65,070; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Retained pay of $39,862, from $51,860, assumes a single Oregon filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 338 of 489 locally, and the state ranks 13 of 51 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $38,065, worked from $51,860, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Oregon address, on work sitting at 338 of 489 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 $53,690 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 — $41,410 at the tenth percentile, $65,070 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Oregon costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $38,065 rather than its face figure.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Oregon adds its own income tax on top — which is why $39,862 of this wage survives to your account.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 Oregon is $53,690. 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 ($41,410 to $65,070) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Oregon rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Oregon's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $38,065 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $39,862 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Oregon 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.