Occupation / job
Insurance Claims and Policy Processing 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
Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks pays $49,230, effectively level with the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint — $790 apart, which is inside the noise of a single year’s survey. Treat this as an average-paying occupation and decide it on everything else.
With 214,260 in the occupation, Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks is a big field with a visible internal market. Big fields reward moving: the pay you can negotiate on arrival usually beats what the annual review will give you for staying.
These roles suit people who want dependable indoor work with a clear task, and who would rather be accurate than visible.
How long it takes to become one of the 214,260 people doing this is not something we have a source for. BLS counts and pays them; it does not record how they got there, and we would rather say so than guess.
Who should not do this
A quarter of Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks earn under $44,270 and a quarter over $60,490 — 1.4x, or $16,220 apart. Narrow spreads usually mean a pay schedule, which is stability bought at the price of upside.
At $44,270, or $21.28 an hour, the bottom quarter of this work lands within $5,750 of the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint — an unusually solid floor.
Avoid it if you need a role with a defined next step; these posts often do not have one.
There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 214,260 people employed as Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks; it did not count the people who trained for it and are doing something else, and a rate built without that denominator would be a number we made up.
What the spread tells you
$44,270 to $60,490 is a 1.4x 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.
Put in money rather than ratios: $44,270 at the 25th percentile, $49,230 at the midpoint, $60,490 at the 75th. $16,220 separates the quarter of Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
Getting to $60,490, the 75th percentile, is worth $11,260 a year more than the $49,230 midpoint and $16,220 more than the $44,270 a quarter of Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks settle for.
The upper half of the middle range — $49,230 to $60,490, or $11,260 — is far longer than the lower half at $4,960. In a shape like this an average would flatter Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks considerably, and would describe nobody.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks is $23.66 an hour. The quarters sit at $21.28 and $29.08, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
What these figures are, and what they are not
This is payroll data: it comes from employers, about people they employ. Anyone doing the work of Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $49,230 describes them.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks, the hourly figure is $49,230 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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