Occupation / job
Court, Municipal, and License 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
At $48,700 against $50,020, Court, Municipal, and License Clerks sits $0.63 an hour under the typical American job. A gap that small is not a reason to choose it or to rule it out; the spread and the entry cost are where the real decision is.
National employment is 179,750. At that scale hiring is continuous, the market rate is well established, and your leverage comes from being credibly willing to go somewhere else.
This work suits people who can hold a record straight and a caller calm at the same time, which is a harder combination than the pay suggests.
No verified preparation time is on file for Court, Municipal, and License Clerks. The wage survey behind every figure on this page asks employers what they pay, not what they required, so the honest answer here is that we do not know.
Who should not do this
The middle half runs $40,810 to $60,840 — $1,669 a month between the quarters, a 1.5x 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 $40,810 is only $9,210 off the $50,020 national midpoint. Being in the worst-paid quarter of Court, Municipal, and License Clerks still means being paid close to what the average American job pays.
Avoid it if being the first point of contact for other people’s problems all day would wear you down.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 179,750 figure counts people already working as Court, Municipal, and License 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
The quarters are $40,810 and $60,840, a ratio of 1.5x. In a distribution this narrow, the biggest single lever on your pay in Court, Municipal, and License Clerks is the cost of living where you do it.
In cash terms the middle half of Court, Municipal, and License Clerks runs $40,810 to $60,840 — $20,030 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $48,700.
Between $40,810 and $60,840 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $48,700. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $12,140; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $20,030.
$12,140 separates $48,700 from the $60,840 top quarter, while only $7,890 separates it from $40,810. The range leans upward, which means the middle of Court, Municipal, and License Clerks has more room above it than a symmetric reading of the median would suggest.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $23.41 at the midpoint for Court, Municipal, and License Clerks, $19.62 at the 25th percentile and $29.25 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
What these figures are, and what they are not
Employers reported these wages for people already working as Court, Municipal, and License Clerks. The self-employed are excluded, so $48,700 does not describe an independent doing the same work.
The hourly number on this page is $48,700 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Court, Municipal, and License Clerks, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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