Occupation / job
Loan Interviewers and 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
Loan Interviewers and Clerks pays $50,020 at the midpoint against $50,020 across all occupations. The headline argues neither for nor against it; the case has to be made on the spread, the entry cost and what the day is actually like.
National employment is 164,790. 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 Loan Interviewers and 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 quarters sit at $45,120 and $60,600, $1,290 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 Loan Interviewers and Clerks earns under $45,120, which is within $4,900 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 absorbing other people’s frustration all day would wear you down; that is the substance of the role.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 164,790 is a headcount of the employed, which is a numerator without a denominator — everyone who qualified and never got hired is missing from it, and we will not estimate them to complete a percentage.
What the spread tells you
At 1.3x between $45,120 and $60,600, this is a narrow distribution. $50,020 is a reliable number to plan around, which is worth something — but so is knowing that outperforming the field will not be paid for.
Put in money rather than ratios: $45,120 at the 25th percentile, $50,020 at the midpoint, $60,600 at the 75th. $15,480 separates the quarter of Loan Interviewers and Clerks at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
The 75th percentile is $60,600. Reaching it from the $50,020 midpoint is $10,580 a year; reaching it from the $45,120 that the bottom quarter of Loan Interviewers and Clerks earn is $15,480.
The upper half of the middle range — $50,020 to $60,600, or $10,580 — is far longer than the lower half at $4,900. In a shape like this an average would flatter Loan Interviewers and Clerks considerably, and would describe nobody.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $24.04 at the midpoint for Loan Interviewers and Clerks, $21.69 at the 25th percentile and $29.13 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
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 Loan Interviewers and Clerks for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $50,020 describes them.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Loan Interviewers and Clerks, the hourly figure is $50,020 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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