Occupation / job
Procurement 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
With a $50,580 median against a $50,020 national one, Procurement Clerks is an average-paying occupation by construction — $46 a month either way. What separates it from the alternatives is not on this line.
55,810 people are employed as Procurement Clerks. At that scale every large metro has a real market, and the difference between a good year and a bad one is usually which employer you are at rather than whether anyone is hiring.
Financial clerical work suits people who like a ledger that reconciles and are willing to be the person who finds out why it does not.
We carry no verified training length for Procurement Clerks — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
The middle half runs $43,420 to $60,080 — $1,388 a month between the quarters, a 1.4x 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 $43,420 is only $6,600 off the $50,020 national midpoint. Being in the worst-paid quarter of Procurement Clerks still means being paid close to what the average American job pays.
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No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 55,810 figure counts people already working as Procurement 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
Top quarter to bottom quarter is 1.4x. In a band that narrow, $50,580 is a genuinely representative number for Procurement Clerks and the main variable left is where you live.
In cash terms the middle half of Procurement Clerks runs $43,420 to $60,080 — $16,660 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $50,580.
Between $43,420 and $60,080 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $50,580. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $9,500; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $16,660.
The climb from $50,580 to $60,080 is $9,500; the drop to $43,420 is $7,160. A little more room above the midpoint than below it is the normal shape for Procurement Clerks and for most paid work, and it is the reason the median is the honest summary rather than the average.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $24.31 at the midpoint for Procurement Clerks, $20.87 at the 25th percentile and $28.88 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
What these figures are, and what they are not
The $50,580 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 $50,580 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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