Occupation / job
Financial Clerks, All Other
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
Financial Clerks, All Other pays $53,830, a little over the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint — $3,810 a year clear, or $1.83 an hour. A margin that size is worth having but is not on its own a reason to take on an entry requirement.
With 36,260 employed as Financial Clerks, All Other, most metros have a working market: several employers, visible turnover, and the ability to change jobs without moving house.
These roles suit people who want steady, structured work with money, and who find genuine satisfaction in a set of books that balance.
No verified preparation time is on file for Financial Clerks, All Other. 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 quarters sit at $47,510 and $62,310, $1,233 a month apart at a ratio of 1.3x. Narrow enough that what you can expect is close to what everyone else gets.
The bottom quarter of Financial Clerks, All Other earns under $47,510, which is within $2,510 of the $50,020 typical American job. An occupation whose 25th percentile is level with the national middle has an unusually forgiving downside.
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 36,260 figure counts people already working as Financial Clerks, All Other, 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
A 1.3x ratio from $47,510 to $62,310 makes $53,830 a dependable planning number. Dependable is the whole offer here — there is not much room above it.
Put in money rather than ratios: $47,510 at the 25th percentile, $53,830 at the midpoint, $62,310 at the 75th. $14,800 separates the quarter of Financial Clerks, All Other at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
Getting to $62,310, the 75th percentile, is worth $8,480 a year more than the $53,830 midpoint and $14,800 more than the $47,510 a quarter of Financial Clerks, All Other settle for.
The climb from $53,830 to $62,310 is $8,480; the drop to $47,510 is $6,320. A little more room above the midpoint than below it is the normal shape for Financial Clerks, All Other and for most paid work, and it is the reason the median is the honest summary rather than the average.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Financial Clerks, All Other is $25.87 an hour. The quarters sit at $22.84 and $29.95, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
What these figures are, and what they are not
Employers reported these wages for people already working as Financial Clerks, All Other. The self-employed are excluded, so $53,830 does not describe an independent doing the same work.
The hourly number on this page is $53,830 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Financial Clerks, All Other, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
How this is calculated · Self-employment failure rates · What credentials cost and pay back · Look up something else