New Accounts Clerks in Michigan
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$38,030
after federal, FICA and Michigan tax
Tax takes
$8,750
18.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$40,379
Michigan costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Michigan — 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
$46,780
Kept after tax
$38,030
Worth in national money
$40,379
State rank
26
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Michigan pays new accounts clerks around $46,780 at the midpoint, 26 of 45 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Michigan, this sits in the middle: 339 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Michigan is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $46,780 the take-home is $38,030; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $40,379 would nationally. The average comes to $47,790, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For new accounts clerks the Michigan median is $46,780, ranking 26 of 45 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- New accounts clerks ranks 339 of 493 occupations in Michigan 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 new accounts clerks in Michigan, on $46,780, is $38,030 — equivalent to $40,379 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 $47,790 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: New Accounts Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $38,180 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $46,780 |
| Top tenth earn over | $59,430 |
| This salary | $46,780 |
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 Michigan | $38,030 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $39,768 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$545 |
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 | $44,618 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$659 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 94 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $46,780 as a midpoint for Michigan, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $38,180 and the ninetieth is $59,430 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Michigan's $38,030, worked from $46,780. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 339 of 493.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $40,379 uses one figure for the whole of Michigan. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 493 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 339.
- The Michigan median of $46,780 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $38,180 to $59,430. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Michigan take-home of $38,030, on $46,780 for work ranking 339 of 493 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 339 of 493 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $40,379, worked from $46,780, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Michigan address, on work sitting at 339 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $38,180 at the tenth percentile, $59,430 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Michigan sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $40,379 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Michigan then takes its own share, leaving $38,030.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 45 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($38,180 to $59,430) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Michigan rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Michigan'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 $40,379 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 $38,030 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Michigan 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.
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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.