New Accounts Clerks in North Carolina
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$40,472
after federal, FICA and North Carolina tax
Tax takes
$9,008
18.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$42,991
North Carolina costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in North Carolina — 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
$49,480
Kept after tax
$40,472
Worth in national money
$42,991
State rank
11
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- North Carolina is one of the better-paying states for new accounts clerks. The middle earner takes $49,480, which ranks 11 of 45 states with published figures. That is about 3.8% above the national middle.
- Against other work in North Carolina, this sits in the middle: 287 of 489 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $49,480 you keep $40,472 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $42,991 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $54,050, since top earners drag the number up.
- North Carolina ranks 11 of 45 states publishing a median for new accounts clerks, at $49,480 — about 3.8% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- New accounts clerks ranks 287 of 489 occupations in North Carolina 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.
- Retained pay in North Carolina is $40,472 after the full tax stack, from $49,480. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $42,991 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $54,050 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: New Accounts Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $43,690 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $49,480 |
| Top tenth earn over | $71,300 |
| This salary | $49,480 |
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 North Carolina | $40,472 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,937 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$165 |
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 | $47,656 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$200 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 94 |
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 new accounts clerks in North Carolina earn under $49,480 and half over. The published range runs $43,690 at the tenth percentile to $71,300 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $40,472 take-home in North Carolina comes from $49,480. 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 287 of 489.
- Two cautions on $42,991, the adjusted value of that $49,480 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of North Carolina. 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 287 of 489 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for new accounts clerks in North Carolina, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $43,690 to $71,300; 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 $40,472, from $49,480, assumes a single North Carolina 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 287 of 489 locally, and the state ranks 11 of 45 for it.
- This $42,991 adjusted figure, worked from $49,480, 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 287 of 489 in the state. The occupation ranks 287 of 489 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $54,050 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $43,690 and the top tenth $71,300, so most people doing this work in North Carolina sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $42,991.
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; North Carolina then takes its own share, leaving $40,472.
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.
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 North Carolina is $54,050. 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 ($43,690 to $71,300) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to North Carolina rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
North Carolina'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 $42,991 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 $40,472 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and North Carolina 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.