New Accounts Clerks
What the pay figures show
- The District of Columbia comes first for new accounts clerks on every measure. $60,990 on paper. Still first after tax. Still first at $55,050 once you adjust for what things cost. When the headline and the reality agree, say so plainly.
- For new accounts clerks, the District of Columbia's $60,990 median is the highest nominally, after tax, and after regional price adjustment, at $55,050. Concordance across all three measures is uncommon and worth stating explicitly, because the absence of a reordering is itself the finding for this occupation.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$47,670
People doing it
36,860
Highest paid
$60,990
DC
Best off, really
$55,050
ND, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$38,180
Highest tenth
$60,910
Lowest, really
$33,860
MD
States with data
45
National average
$49,370
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
88.57%
ND, 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 $33,860 to $55,050. For work like this, where you live changes your life more than it changes your pay.
- This is a small job: about 36,860 people nationally. Fewer workers means each state figure is built on less data.
- Some states are missing here. There are figures for 45 jurisdictions, averaging $47,670 in the middle. A blank means nobody published a number, not that the job pays nothing there. The District of Columbia leads the published set.
- Geographic dispersion in new accounts clerks is moderate by national standards. Tax and price adjustment compress the distribution further, to a real range of $33,860 through $55,050. 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 36,860 workers, new accounts clerks is among the smaller occupations BLS publishes. Treat single-state figures as indicative rather than precise; suppression and sampling error both bite harder at this scale.
- Coverage for new accounts clerks runs to 45 jurisdictions, short of the full set. The omitted states are suppressed at source; treat the spread above as the range across reported states rather than across the country.
Pay band: New Accounts Clerks
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $38,180 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $47,670 |
| Top tenth earn over | $60,910 |
| This salary | $47,670 |
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 New Accounts Clerks
The national median for this job
$47,670around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $38,180 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $47,670 |
| Top tenth | $60,910 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
New Accounts Clerks, state by state
The national median for this job
45states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Arkansas · $35,680 |
|---|---|
| Highest | District of Columbia · $60,990 |
| Spread | $25,310 |
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 | $44,040 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $45,320 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ND | $57,970 | $48,759 | $55,050 |
| NM | $51,380 | $42,215 | $46,705 |
| TN | $49,770 | $42,170 | $45,582 |
| MO | $50,270 | $41,147 | $44,841 |
| CT | $57,080 | $45,654 | $44,030 |
| OH | $48,310 | $40,385 | $43,987 |
| DC | $60,990 | $48,668 | $43,922 |
| NC | $49,480 | $40,472 | $42,991 |
| NY | $57,950 | $46,211 | $42,936 |
| WY | $45,760 | $38,948 | $42,872 |
| NJ | $57,240 | $46,558 | $42,759 |
| NE | $47,140 | $38,616 | $42,728 |
| IA | $45,630 | $37,722 | $42,495 |
| WI | $48,050 | $39,273 | $42,185 |
| NV | $47,450 | $40,306 | $41,561 |
| WA | $52,830 | $44,629 | $41,109 |
| ID | $45,760 | $37,376 | $40,882 |
| SC | $45,500 | $38,038 | $40,823 |
| VT | $47,910 | $39,327 | $40,696 |
| MI | $46,780 | $38,030 | $40,379 |
| MN | $48,920 | $39,684 | $40,322 |
| OK | $43,380 | $35,584 | $40,306 |
| AL | $44,780 | $36,246 | $40,287 |
| KY | $43,990 | $36,104 | $39,908 |
| MT | $43,610 | $35,928 | $39,812 |
| IL | $49,040 | $39,301 | $39,756 |
| PA | $47,330 | $38,757 | $39,750 |
| ME | $47,420 | $38,401 | $39,549 |
| CO | $48,870 | $40,005 | $39,460 |
| NH | $48,170 | $40,885 | $38,810 |
| TX | $44,040 | $37,566 | $38,658 |
| GA | $45,770 | $37,271 | $38,543 |
| IN | $42,950 | $35,453 | $38,459 |
| MS | $40,910 | $33,507 | $38,385 |
| DE | $47,150 | $38,015 | $38,301 |
| UT | $44,890 | $36,252 | $38,159 |
| CA | $52,100 | $42,724 | $37,949 |
| FL | $45,930 | $39,085 | $37,781 |
| VA | $46,350 | $37,518 | $37,239 |
| KS | $40,170 | $32,504 | $36,129 |
| WV | $38,520 | $32,134 | $35,795 |
| OR | $48,330 | $37,334 | $35,651 |
| HI | $47,440 | $38,116 | $35,095 |
| AR | $35,680 | $29,987 | $34,664 |
| MD | $43,200 | $35,203 | $33,860 |
Sources and assumptions
- These are middle-of-the-range figures for new accounts clerks, not what a new starter is offered. Half the people doing this job earn under $47,670 nationally, half over. Your own experience and employer will move you well away from that midpoint in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, nothing paid into a pension before tax — that is the household behind every take-home figure for new accounts clerks. It is the simplest case on purpose, so the states can be compared against each other rather than against each other's family circumstances. City income taxes are not counted. On that household, North Dakota keeps the most at $48,759.
- Levelling out prices for new accounts clerks 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 — Maryland sits at the bottom on $33,860.
- All wage figures for new accounts clerks are medians rather than entry or offer rates; the national median is $47,670. 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.
- The household modeled for new accounts clerks is a single filer, standard deduction, no dependants, no pre-tax contributions. Holding the household constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful; it also means the absolute figures overstate liability for most real filers. On that basis North Dakota retains the most, $48,759. Municipal and school-district income taxes are not included in any state.
- The price deflation applied to new accounts 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 Maryland at $33,860. The comparison establishes the direction and rough magnitude of the reordering rather than an address-level result — Maryland anchors the bottom at $33,860 — and the two source series are dated independently.