Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks in Washington
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$50,567
after federal, FICA and Washington tax
Tax takes
$9,653
16.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$46,579
Washington costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Washington — 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
$60,220
Kept after tax
$50,567
Worth in national money
$46,579
State rank
2
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Washington's middle earner gets $60,220, putting the state 2 of 49 — about 22.32% ahead of the national figure.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 493 occupations Washington reports figures for, this is number 310.
- Washington is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $60,220 the take-home is $50,567; in national-average money that behaves like $46,579. The average comes to $61,830, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For insurance claims and policy processing clerks, Washington sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $60,220, ranking 2 of 49 and running about 22.32% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- In Washington's occupational distribution, insurance claims and policy processing clerks sits at 310 of 493 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Take-home for insurance claims and policy processing clerks in Washington, on $60,220, is $50,567; deflated by the state's price level, $46,579. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $61,830 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $44,290 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $60,220 |
| Top tenth earn over | $82,500 |
| This salary | $60,220 |
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 Washington | $50,567 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $50,567 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,458 |
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 | $60,220 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,601 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
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 insurance claims and policy processing clerks in Washington earn under $60,220 and half over. The published range runs $44,290 at the tenth percentile to $82,500 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $50,567 take-home in Washington comes from $60,220. 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 310 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Washington, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $46,579, the adjusted value of that $60,220 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 310 of 493 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for insurance claims and policy processing clerks in Washington, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $44,290 to $82,500; 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 $50,567, from $60,220, assumes a single Washington 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 310 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 2 of 49 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Washington, so $46,579 — the adjusted value of that $60,220 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 310 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $44,290 and the top tenth $82,500, so most people doing this work in Washington sit within a fairly tight band.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $46,579 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $50,567 of this wage reaches your account, because Washington takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 49 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($44,290 to $82,500) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Washington rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Washington's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $46,579 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Washington levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $50,567 reflects the federal layer and FICA alone. Federal income tax and FICA are unchanged; states without a wage income tax generally recover revenue through consumption and property bases instead.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.