Occupation / job
Billing and Posting Clerks
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
A $48,500 median against $50,020 across all occupations puts Billing and Posting Clerks within $126 a month of the exact middle of the American labour market. Nothing in the headline number argues either way.
This is a large occupation: 404,060 people work as Billing and Posting Clerks. Large occupations hire continuously and replace continuously, and the pay reflects both facts.
These roles suit people who want steady, structured work with money, and who find genuine satisfaction in a set of books that balance.
We carry no verified training length for Billing and Posting Clerks — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
The middle half runs $42,840 to $58,290 — $1,287 a month between the quarters, a 1.4x ratio. Spreads this narrow are usually set by a grade or a scale, so the negotiation you are imagining probably is not available.
The 25th percentile of $42,840 is only $7,180 off the $50,020 national midpoint. Being in the worst-paid quarter of Billing and Posting Clerks still means being paid close to what the average American job pays.
Avoid it if you want a role software is not steadily absorbing; this one is.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 404,060 figure counts people already working as Billing and Posting Clerks, not everyone who trained and never got hired. Without a licensing register to divide by, a rate here would be an invented denominator.
What the spread tells you
Top quarter to bottom quarter is 1.4x. In a band that narrow, $48,500 is a genuinely representative number for Billing and Posting Clerks and the main variable left is where you live.
In cash terms the middle half of Billing and Posting Clerks runs $42,840 to $58,290 — $15,450 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $48,500.
The 75th percentile is $58,290. Reaching it from the $48,500 midpoint is $9,790 a year; reaching it from the $42,840 that the bottom quarter of Billing and Posting Clerks earn is $15,450.
The distance from the midpoint up to $58,290 is $9,790 — well over the $5,660 down to $42,840. Distributions leaning this way mean the median understates what the upper half of Billing and Posting Clerks earns, and half the field is in that upper half.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Billing and Posting Clerks is $23.31 an hour. The quarters sit at $20.59 and $28.02, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
What these figures are, and what they are not
The $48,500 figure is what employers pay employees. It is before tax and before deductions, it excludes the self-employed entirely, and it says nothing about anyone who does this work on their own account.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Billing and Posting Clerks, the hourly figure is $48,500 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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