Court, Municipal, and License Clerks in Georgia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$35,153
after federal, FICA and Georgia tax
Tax takes
$7,807
18.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$36,353
Georgia costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Georgia — 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
$42,960
Kept after tax
$35,153
Worth in national money
$36,353
State rank
45
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Georgia pays court, municipal, and license clerks a middle wage of $42,960, 45 of 51 states and about 11.79% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Within Georgia this is lower-paid work. Of 492 occupations the state publishes figures for, court, municipal, and license clerks ranks 379. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $42,960 you keep $35,153 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $36,353 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $44,990, since top earners drag the number up.
- Georgia's $42,960 median for court, municipal, and license clerks places it 45 of 51 states, about 11.79% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Against every occupation Georgia reports, court, municipal, and license clerks ranks 379 of 492, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- Retained pay in Georgia is $35,153 after the full tax stack, from $42,960. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $36,353 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $44,990 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Court, Municipal, and License Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $34,010 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $42,960 |
| Top tenth earn over | $60,740 |
| This salary | $42,960 |
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 Georgia | $35,153 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $36,698 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,412 |
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 | $41,037 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,707 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Georgia earn less than $42,960. The published range is $34,010 up to $60,740, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Georgia the take-home figure of $35,153, from $42,960, 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 379 of 492 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $36,353, the adjusted value of that $42,960 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Georgia. 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 379 of 492 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for court, municipal, and license clerks in Georgia the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $34,010 to $60,740. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Georgia is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $35,153 from $42,960. 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 379 of 492 locally.
- This $36,353 adjusted figure, worked from $42,960, 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 379 of 492 in the state. The occupation ranks 379 of 492 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $44,990, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $34,010 at the tenth percentile, $60,740 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $36,353.
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 Georgia's own levy, $35,153 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 Georgia is $44,990. 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 ($34,010 to $60,740) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Georgia rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Georgia'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 $36,353 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 $35,153 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Georgia 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.