Billing and Posting Clerks salary

SOC 43-3021 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$48,500

per year, nationally

Middle half

$42,840–$58,290

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

404,060

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

-0.4%

42,200 openings/yr

What the range looks like

A single median hides most of what a job pays. The bar below is the full national range: the wash spans the 10th to 90th percentile, the solid bar is the middle half, and the tick is the median.

$37,290$67,710

10th: $37,290
25th: $42,840
Median: $48,500
75th: $58,290
90th: $67,710

Getting in

Typical education to enter: High school diploma or equivalent
Related work experience: None
On-the-job training: Moderate-term on-the-job training

Entry requirements describe what is typical, not mandatory. Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34.

Where billing and posting clerks earn the most

Nominal pay and pay adjusted for local prices rank states differently — a high-wage state with high costs can be worse off in real terms than a middling one. Switch between the two below.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	State	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	District of Columbia	$64,330	109.9	530	0.29×
2	California	$56,260	110.7	41,290	0.87×
3	Massachusetts	$56,110	105.8	7,430	0.79×
4	Washington	$56,090	107.0	11,960	1.30×
5	Minnesota	$55,810	98.6	6,300	0.82×
6	New York	$53,320	107.9	32,770	1.30×
7	Rhode Island	$52,910	102.3	980	0.75×
8	Colorado	$52,670	103.1	8,170	1.09×
9	Maryland	$52,210	105.0	5,960	0.83×
10	Alaska	$52,170	102.4	370	0.44×
11	Delaware	$52,110	99.8	1,270	1.01×
12	Connecticut	$52,000	103.6	4,170	0.95×
13	Oregon	$51,860	103.4	5,030	0.98×
14	New Jersey	$51,750	108.8	14,910	1.34×
15	Hawaii	$51,240	110.0	1,340	0.82×
16	Vermont	$50,730	98.0	890	1.12×
17	New Hampshire	$50,710	104.2	1,480	0.84×
18	Illinois	$49,730	100.0	21,010	1.33×
19	North Dakota	$48,550	89.0	660	0.59×
20	Wisconsin	$48,230	94.1	7,790	1.02×
21	Maine	$47,840	97.0	1,850	1.11×
22	Arizona	$47,730	100.7	8,490	1.01×
23	Virginia	$47,580	101.1	7,500	0.70×
24	Nevada	$47,430	100.0	3,720	0.92×
25	Nebraska	$47,410	90.1	3,310	1.25×
26	Georgia	$47,390	96.3	11,450	0.90×
27	North Carolina	$47,160	94.3	7,000	0.55×
28	Iowa	$47,110	87.8	3,660	0.90×
29	Michigan	$46,890	96.2	12,550	1.10×
30	Pennsylvania	$46,890	97.6	15,800	1.00×
31	Missouri	$46,760	90.8	8,550	1.12×
32	Montana	$46,730	94.6	1,890	1.43×
33	Florida	$46,540	103.4	28,560	1.11×
34	Utah	$46,470	98.9	4,000	0.89×
35	Idaho	$46,440	95.5	2,850	1.28×
36	Kansas	$46,420	90.1	3,890	1.04×
37	Indiana	$46,400	93.3	8,060	0.97×
38	Ohio	$46,390	92.8	19,480	1.35×
39	Tennessee	$46,330	91.9	7,990	0.94×
40	South Dakota	$46,180	88.6	770	0.65×
41	New Mexico	$46,120	92.2	2,050	0.91×
42	Texas	$45,910	97.1	31,150	0.85×
43	Kentucky	$45,590	90.2	5,200	1.00×
44	South Carolina	$45,250	93.7	5,550	0.93×
45	Oklahoma	$45,120	87.8	4,460	1.01×
46	Wyoming	$44,880	92.7	580	0.80×
47	Louisiana	$43,170	88.2	5,970	1.19×
48	Mississippi	$41,190	87.0	3,040	1.00×
49	Alabama	$39,520	88.8	3,780	0.69×
50	West Virginia	$39,300	89.5	2,180	1.20×
51	Arkansas	$38,780	86.9	4,390	1.29×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. States where billing and posting clerks wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for billing and posting clerks

The 40 highest-paying metros with a published estimate. BLS suppresses roughly half of all occupation-by-metro cells, so a metro absent here has no local figure rather than a low one.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	Metro area	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$70,280	110.4	2,350	0.80×
2	Rochester, MN	$67,390	90.8	500	1.57×
3	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$66,390	115.6	4,690	0.76×
4	New Haven, CT	$61,180	104.6	980	1.34×
5	Napa, CA	$59,810	112.6	120	0.61×
6	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$58,920	111.1	6,410	1.18×
7	Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA	$58,400	109.9	210	0.81×
8	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$58,350	107.8	350	0.66×
9	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$58,250	110.5	790	0.93×
10	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$58,240	105.8	4,950	1.18×
11	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$58,190	106.7	2,550	0.91×
12	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$58,100	108.3	5,710	0.81×
13	Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA	$57,490	102.4	200	1.44×
14	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$57,330	104.8	4,080	0.80×
15	Kahului-Wailuku, HI	$56,870	109.4	110	0.59×
16	Barnstable Town, MA	$56,370	98.4	150	0.61×
17	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$56,160	112.6	32,930	1.34×
18	Bend, OR	$56,100	103.6	340	1.21×
19	Salem, OR	$56,040	103.6	460	0.94×
20	Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	$55,960	106.9	900	0.85×
21	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$55,920	108.9	4,450	0.55×
22	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$55,260	111.9	3,610	0.90×
23	Vallejo, CA	$54,990	108.5	250	0.66×
24	Durham-Chapel Hill, NC	$54,560	97.6	250	0.28×
25	Worcester, MA	$54,480	102.5	550	0.60×
26	Salinas, CA	$54,320	109.0	310	0.64×
27	Fairbanks-College, AK	$54,080	103.2	40	0.40×
28	Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA	$53,950	103.7	410	1.21×
29	Pittsfield, MA	$53,490	95.1	110	0.73×
30	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$53,070	113.6	16,670	1.02×
31	Boulder, CO	$53,030	105.2	320	0.64×
32	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	$52,940	104.5	3,290	0.93×
33	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$52,820	105.4	3,150	1.00×
34	Stockton-Lodi, CA	$52,210	105.1	550	0.73×
35	Anchorage, AK	$52,150	105.4	220	0.48×
36	Kennewick-Richland, WA	$52,150	100.1	370	1.10×
37	Grants Pass, OR	$52,070	97.8	90	1.16×
38	Bakersfield-Delano, CA	$52,000	100.9	620	0.71×
39	Chico, CA	$51,960	101.2	200	1.00×
40	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	$51,930	108.8	390	0.76×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. Metro areas where billing and posting clerks wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Similar occupations

Other jobs in the same field, with what each pays nationally.

Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks$50,670
Tellers$43,030
Bill and Account Collectors$47,030
Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks$58,260
Procurement Clerks$50,580
Financial Clerks, All Other$53,830
Gambling Cage Workers$37,580