Procurement Clerks
What the pay figures show
- The District of Columbia pays procurement clerks the most, $62,880. It still pays the most after tax. What it does not do is stay ahead once you count what living there costs. Level that out and North Dakota wins, at $49,299. Same work. A wage that goes further.
- For procurement clerks, the District of Columbia leads both nominally at $62,880 and after tax — state income tax differentials are not large enough here to disturb the ordering. Regional price parity is: deflating take-home by each state's price level puts North Dakota first at $49,299. The adjustment that matters for this occupation is therefore cost of living rather than tax, which is the opposite of the assumption most relocation comparisons start from.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$50,580
People doing it
55,810
Highest paid
$62,880
DC
Best off, really
$49,299
ND, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$38,040
Highest tenth
$68,620
Lowest, really
$35,976
TN
States with data
51
National average
$52,370
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
88.57%
ND, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Nationally, this job pays within a fairly narrow band. Adjust for tax and for local prices and the band tightens again, to between $35,976 and $49,299. Geography is not the main lever on pay here.
- This is a small job: about 55,810 people nationally. Fewer workers means each state figure is built on less data.
- Coverage is complete — all 51 jurisdictions publish this, on a middle wage of $50,580. Nothing is missing.
- Wages for procurement clerks cluster comparatively tightly across states, and the clustering strengthens after tax and price deflation — a real range of $35,976 to $49,299. Occupation-level factors such as specialisation and employer type therefore explain more of an individual's pay here than location does.
- With 55,810 workers, procurement 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 procurement clerks is complete at 51 jurisdictions. No suppression applies, so the highest and lowest figures above are genuinely the national extremes.
Pay band: Procurement Clerks
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $38,040 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $50,580 |
| Top tenth earn over | $68,620 |
| This salary | $50,580 |
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 Procurement Clerks
The national median for this job
$50,580around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $38,040 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $50,580 |
| Top tenth | $68,620 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Procurement Clerks, state by state
The national median for this job
51states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Tennessee · $38,710 |
|---|---|
| Highest | District of Columbia · $62,880 |
| Spread | $24,170 |
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 | $47,660 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $49,046 |
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 | $51,630 | $43,665 | $49,299 |
| MN | $58,100 | $46,436 | $47,183 |
| AL | $52,940 | $42,444 | $47,176 |
| WY | $50,380 | $42,660 | $46,958 |
| NH | $58,830 | $49,450 | $46,941 |
| NM | $51,080 | $41,988 | $46,454 |
| LA | $49,680 | $40,994 | $46,402 |
| UT | $54,950 | $43,887 | $46,196 |
| OK | $49,940 | $40,560 | $45,942 |
| KY | $50,610 | $41,191 | $45,531 |
| AR | $47,760 | $39,247 | $45,368 |
| OH | $49,880 | $41,603 | $45,314 |
| IA | $48,870 | $40,202 | $45,289 |
| DC | $62,880 | $50,063 | $45,182 |
| SD | $46,690 | $39,695 | $45,060 |
| NV | $51,530 | $43,584 | $44,942 |
| AK | $54,100 | $45,649 | $44,880 |
| PA | $53,800 | $43,757 | $44,879 |
| MT | $49,560 | $40,429 | $44,799 |
| ID | $50,310 | $40,791 | $44,617 |
| SC | $49,810 | $41,216 | $44,234 |
| CO | $55,210 | $44,820 | $44,209 |
| MA | $60,110 | $47,793 | $44,155 |
| WV | $48,050 | $39,426 | $43,918 |
| ME | $53,070 | $42,560 | $43,832 |
| NC | $50,390 | $41,167 | $43,730 |
| IN | $49,210 | $40,298 | $43,715 |
| MO | $48,820 | $40,050 | $43,645 |
| NE | $47,950 | $39,230 | $43,407 |
| VA | $54,660 | $43,717 | $43,392 |
| RI | $53,980 | $43,949 | $43,337 |
| WI | $49,410 | $40,299 | $43,287 |
| MS | $46,270 | $37,599 | $43,073 |
| MI | $49,980 | $40,466 | $42,964 |
| NJ | $57,460 | $46,722 | $42,910 |
| KS | $47,730 | $38,156 | $42,412 |
| GA | $50,730 | $41,009 | $42,409 |
| MD | $53,960 | $43,337 | $41,685 |
| TX | $47,660 | $40,475 | $41,651 |
| WA | $52,910 | $44,693 | $41,168 |
| VT | $47,960 | $39,365 | $40,736 |
| CA | $56,160 | $45,742 | $40,631 |
| NY | $54,080 | $43,310 | $40,241 |
| FL | $48,710 | $41,318 | $39,940 |
| AZ | $47,970 | $39,927 | $39,491 |
| HI | $53,890 | $42,828 | $39,433 |
| CT | $50,510 | $40,737 | $39,287 |
| IL | $47,770 | $38,343 | $38,787 |
| OR | $52,700 | $40,463 | $38,639 |
| DE | $47,470 | $38,254 | $38,542 |
| TN | $38,710 | $33,283 | $35,976 |
Sources and assumptions
- These are middle-of-the-range figures for procurement clerks, not what a new starter is offered. Half the people doing this job earn under $50,580 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 procurement 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, the District of Columbia keeps the most at $50,063.
- One price figure per state stands behind the real-terms numbers for procurement clerks. Inside any state, a big city costs far more than a small town, so this is a fair way to compare states with each other and a poor way to price a specific move. The wage figures and the price figures are also from different years. At the bottom of the range sits Tennessee, on $35,976.
- All wage figures for procurement clerks are medians rather than entry or offer rates; the national median is $50,580. 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 procurement 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 the District of Columbia retains the most, $50,063. Municipal and school-district income taxes are not included in any state.
- Real-terms results for procurement clerks rest on statewide regional price parities, which average over intra-state variation that is itself larger than much of the interstate variation. They support comparison between states and not the pricing of an individual relocation; Tennessee anchors the distribution at $35,976. Wage and price series are published on separate cycles and therefore carry different reference periods.