Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks in Indiana
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$39,222
after federal, FICA and Indiana tax
Tax takes
$8,598
18.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$42,548
Indiana costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Indiana — 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
$47,820
Kept after tax
$39,222
Worth in national money
$42,548
State rank
40
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Indiana. The middle earner gets $47,820. That is 40 of 51 states, and about 5.62% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against other work in Indiana, this sits in the middle: 328 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Indiana is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $47,820 the take-home is $39,222; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $42,548 would nationally. The average comes to $49,730, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks, Indiana sits in the lower band at $47,820, ranking 40 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 5.62%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks ranks 328 of 493 occupations in Indiana by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Post-tax income for bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks in Indiana, on $47,820, is $39,222 — equivalent to $42,548 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $49,730 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $33,010 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $47,820 |
| Top tenth earn over | $66,960 |
| This salary | $47,820 |
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 Indiana | $39,222 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $40,603 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$764 |
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 | $46,101 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$924 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 92 |
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 bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks in Indiana earn under $47,820 and half over. The published range runs $33,010 at the tenth percentile to $66,960 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Indiana the take-home figure of $39,222, from $47,820, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 328 of 493 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $42,548, the adjusted value of that $47,820 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Indiana. 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 328 of 493 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks in Indiana, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $33,010 to $66,960; 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.
- Take-home for Indiana is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $39,222 from $47,820. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 328 of 493 locally.
- This $42,548 adjusted figure, worked from $47,820, 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 328 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 328 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $49,730, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $33,010 and the top tenth $66,960, so most people doing this work in Indiana sit within a fairly tight band.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Indiana sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $42,548 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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 Indiana's own levy, $39,222 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 Indiana is $49,730. 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 ($33,010 to $66,960) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Indiana rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Indiana'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 $42,548 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 $39,222 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Indiana 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.