Occupation / job
Information and Record 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
A $49,500 median against $50,020 across all occupations puts Information and Record Clerks, All Other within $43 a month of the exact middle of the American labour market. Nothing in the headline number argues either way.
134,920 people are employed as Information and Record Clerks, All Other. At that size there is a real ladder and enough churn that experience can be sold to a competitor rather than only accumulated where you are.
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 Information and Record 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 middle half runs $40,910 to $59,970 — $1,588 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.
Even the bottom quarter, under $40,910, lands within $9,110 of the $50,020 typical American wage. The downside of Information and Record Clerks, All Other is not really the money.
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 134,920 figure counts people already working as Information and Record 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
$40,910 to $59,970 is a 1.5x range. Ranges this tight usually mean the employer set is homogeneous — the same kind of organisation paying the same kind of scale — so the lever you have is geography rather than employer.
In cash terms the middle half of Information and Record Clerks, All Other runs $40,910 to $59,970 — $19,060 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $49,500.
The 75th percentile is $59,970. Reaching it from the $49,500 midpoint is $10,470 a year; reaching it from the $40,910 that the bottom quarter of Information and Record Clerks, All Other earn is $19,060.
From $49,500 it is $8,590 down to the bottom quarter and $10,470 up to the top. The upper half of the range is the longer one, which is the ordinary shape for work where experience compounds.
Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $19.66 at the bottom quarter, $23.79 at the midpoint, $28.83 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.
What these figures are, and what they are not
The $49,500 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.
Treat the per-hour figure as a conversion. It assumes a flat full-time year against $49,500 because we have no verified record of unpaid hours or out-of-pocket costs for this work, and we would rather convert honestly than adjust invented ones.
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