Order Clerks in Alabama
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$39,330
after federal, FICA and Alabama tax
Tax takes
$9,510
19.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$43,715
Alabama costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Alabama — 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
$48,840
Kept after tax
$39,330
Worth in national money
$43,715
State rank
7
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Alabama pays order clerks a middle wage of $48,840, ranking 7 of 48 states and sitting about 5.78% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Alabama, this sits in the middle: 262 of 482 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 $48,840 you keep $39,330 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $43,715 at national prices. Here the average runs under the middle, at $47,570.
- Alabama's median for order clerks is $48,840, about 5.78% above the national figure and 7 of 48 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Order clerks ranks 262 of 482 occupations in Alabama 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 Alabama is $39,330 after the full tax stack, from $48,840. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $43,715 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $47,570 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Order Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,600 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $48,840 |
| Top tenth earn over | $59,270 |
| This salary | $48,840 |
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 Alabama | $39,330 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,423 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,087 |
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 | $46,235 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,315 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Alabama earn less than $48,840. The published range is $36,600 up to $59,270, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Alabama's $39,330, worked from $48,840. 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 262 of 482.
- Two cautions on $43,715, the adjusted value of that $48,840 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Alabama. 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 262 of 482 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for order clerks in Alabama the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $36,600 to $59,270. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Alabama take-home of $39,330, on $48,840 for work ranking 262 of 482 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 262 of 482 in the state.
- This $43,715 adjusted figure, worked from $48,840, 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 262 of 482 in the state. The occupation ranks 262 of 482 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $36,600 at the tenth percentile, $59,270 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Alabama sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $43,715 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; Alabama then takes its own share, leaving $39,330.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 48 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 ($36,600 to $59,270) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Alabama rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Alabama'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 $43,715 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 $39,330 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Alabama 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.