New Accounts Clerks in Oregon
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$37,334
after federal, FICA and Oregon tax
Tax takes
$10,996
22.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$35,651
Oregon costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Oregon — 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
$48,330
Kept after tax
$37,334
Worth in national money
$35,651
State rank
15
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for new accounts clerks is strong here. Oregon's middle earner gets $48,330, putting the state 15 of 45 — about 1.38% ahead of the national figure.
- Within Oregon this is lower-paid work. Of 489 occupations the state publishes figures for, new accounts clerks ranks 389. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Oregon is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $48,330 the take-home is $37,334; in national-average money that behaves like $35,651. The average comes to $50,070, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For new accounts clerks, Oregon sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $48,330, ranking 15 of 45 and running about 1.38% 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.
- Against every occupation Oregon reports, new accounts clerks ranks 389 of 489, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- Take-home for new accounts clerks in Oregon, on $48,330, is $37,334; deflated by the state's price level, $35,651. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $50,070 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 | $45,440 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $48,330 |
| Top tenth earn over | $58,400 |
| This salary | $48,330 |
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 Oregon | $37,334 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,013 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,554 |
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 | $43,752 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,927 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $48,330 as a midpoint for Oregon, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $45,440 and the ninetieth is $58,400 — 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 Oregon's $37,334, worked from $48,330. 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 389 of 489.
- Two cautions on $35,651, the adjusted value of that $48,330 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Oregon. 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 389 of 489 locally.
- The Oregon median of $48,330 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $45,440 to $58,400. 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 Oregon take-home of $37,334, on $48,330 for work ranking 389 of 489 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 389 of 489 in the state.
- This $35,651 adjusted figure, worked from $48,330, 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 389 of 489 in the state. The occupation ranks 389 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 $50,070 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $45,440 at the tenth percentile, $58,400 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Oregon costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $35,651 rather than its face figure.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Oregon adds its own income tax on top — which is why $37,334 of this wage survives to your account.
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 Oregon is $50,070. 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 ($45,440 to $58,400) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Oregon rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Oregon's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $35,651 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $37,334 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Oregon 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.