Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks
What the pay figures show
- New Hampshire pays this job the most, at $60,650. Unusually, it stays on top. Tax does not overturn it. Nor do local prices — it is still first at $48,329 once levelled out. That is rarer than it sounds. For most jobs the leader changes.
- New Hampshire leads for insurance claims and policy processing clerks at $60,650 and retains the position through both adjustments, finishing first at $48,329 in price-deflated terms. That robustness is the minority case: across the largest occupations, state income tax reorders the leader roughly a third of the time and price level does so more often still. Where the nominal leader survives both, the wage premium is large enough to absorb the state's own tax and price levels.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$49,230
People doing it
214,260
Highest paid
$60,650
NH
Best off, really
$48,329
NH, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$37,560
Highest tenth
$73,590
Lowest, really
$34,682
AL
States with data
49
National average
$52,920
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
105.34%
NH, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Pay for this job is fairly steady around the country. Count tax and local prices and the states bunch closer still, from $34,682 to $48,329. For work like this, where you live changes your life more than it changes your pay.
- About 214,260 Americans work in this job, on a middle wage of $49,230. Big enough that where you live changes the arithmetic.
- This job is not published everywhere — 49 jurisdictions have a figure, with $49,230 in the middle. Where one is missing, it was never released. New Hampshire tops the ones that are.
- Geographic dispersion in insurance claims and policy processing clerks is moderate by national standards. Tax and price adjustment compress the distribution further, to a real range of $34,682 through $48,329. Where nominal spread is this contained, relocation decisions in the occupation turn on non-wage factors, because the wage differential does not survive the adjustments in a form large enough to drive them.
- With 214,260 workers, insurance claims and policy processing clerks sits in the middle of the BLS headcount distribution. The state-level spread described above therefore applies to a meaningful population rather than a niche one.
- 49 jurisdictions carry a published median for insurance claims and policy processing clerks. ⚠️ Suppression is not random: it correlates with small state-level samples, so the reported set skews toward larger employers of this occupation.
Pay band: Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $37,560 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $49,230 |
| Top tenth earn over | $73,590 |
| This salary | $49,230 |
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 Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks
The national median for this job
$49,230around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $37,560 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $49,230 |
| Top tenth | $73,590 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks, state by state
The national median for this job
49states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Alabama · $38,140 |
|---|---|
| Highest | New Hampshire · $60,650 |
| Spread | $22,510 |
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 | $49,880 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $51,330 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NH | $60,650 | $50,912 | $48,329 |
| ME | $58,890 | $46,843 | $48,244 |
| MN | $58,030 | $46,384 | $47,131 |
| CO | $58,660 | $47,441 | $46,794 |
| WA | $60,220 | $50,567 | $46,579 |
| ND | $48,390 | $41,061 | $46,359 |
| CT | $59,760 | $47,660 | $45,965 |
| MT | $50,890 | $41,435 | $45,914 |
| OK | $48,650 | $39,582 | $44,833 |
| NJ | $59,810 | $48,481 | $44,525 |
| SD | $45,610 | $38,828 | $44,075 |
| OH | $48,380 | $40,439 | $44,046 |
| LA | $46,800 | $38,766 | $43,880 |
| NE | $48,490 | $39,639 | $43,860 |
| WY | $46,870 | $39,840 | $43,854 |
| IN | $49,240 | $40,321 | $43,740 |
| KY | $48,330 | $39,439 | $43,595 |
| TX | $49,880 | $42,259 | $43,487 |
| IA | $46,430 | $38,334 | $43,185 |
| AR | $45,220 | $37,300 | $43,117 |
| WI | $49,170 | $40,118 | $43,092 |
| NY | $57,790 | $46,091 | $42,825 |
| KS | $47,960 | $38,328 | $42,604 |
| NV | $48,300 | $40,989 | $42,265 |
| TN | $45,720 | $38,916 | $42,065 |
| ID | $47,200 | $38,457 | $42,064 |
| NC | $48,130 | $39,441 | $41,896 |
| VT | $49,260 | $40,366 | $41,772 |
| AZ | $50,530 | $41,920 | $41,462 |
| PA | $49,420 | $40,372 | $41,407 |
| MO | $46,010 | $37,924 | $41,329 |
| MI | $47,860 | $38,852 | $41,251 |
| WV | $44,740 | $36,906 | $41,111 |
| CA | $56,800 | $46,218 | $41,053 |
| MS | $43,840 | $35,744 | $40,947 |
| AK | $48,740 | $41,343 | $40,646 |
| DE | $49,990 | $40,139 | $40,441 |
| SC | $44,650 | $37,412 | $40,151 |
| UT | $47,120 | $37,944 | $39,940 |
| IL | $48,440 | $38,849 | $39,299 |
| GA | $46,590 | $37,889 | $39,182 |
| MA | $52,910 | $42,368 | $39,143 |
| FL | $47,130 | $40,049 | $38,713 |
| NM | $41,700 | $34,860 | $38,568 |
| OR | $50,890 | $39,167 | $37,402 |
| VA | $46,430 | $37,577 | $37,298 |
| MD | $47,070 | $38,129 | $36,674 |
| HI | $47,420 | $38,101 | $35,081 |
| AL | $38,140 | $31,203 | $34,682 |
Sources and assumptions
- These are middle-of-the-range figures for this job, not what a new starter is offered. Half the people doing this job earn under $49,230 nationally, half over. Your own experience and employer will move you well away from that midpoint in either direction.
- Take-home figures for this job assume one person filing alone, with no dependants and nothing going into a pension before tax. Any of those lowers the tax and raises what you keep, so treat these as the plain case rather than your case. Local city income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those matter. In New Hampshire, the best state after tax, the figure works out at $50,912.
- Levelling out prices for this job is done with one number per state, which is a simplification. Living costs inside a state vary a lot between its cities and its countryside. The comparison shows which way the ranking moves, not an exact figure for any address — Alabama sits at the bottom on $34,682.
- All wage figures for insurance claims and policy processing clerks are medians rather than entry or offer rates; the national median is $49,230. Within-state dispersion typically exceeds between-state dispersion in this data, so an individual's expected wage is determined more by experience, sector and employer than by the state comparisons presented here.
- Take-home calculations for insurance claims and policy processing clerks assume a single filer with no dependants, the standard deduction, and no pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figures function as a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape; the highest such figure is $50,912, in New Hampshire. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland and parts of a few other states.
- The price deflation applied to insurance claims and policy processing clerks uses state-level parities. Within-state dispersion in price level, concentrated in housing, is large enough that a state figure describes no particular locality well; the bottom of this occupation's real range is Alabama at $34,682. The comparison establishes the direction and rough magnitude of the reordering rather than an address-level result — Alabama anchors the bottom at $34,682 — and the two source series are dated independently.