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Procurement Clerks earn $50,580 a year at the midpoint

Across roughly 55,810 people in this work, the midpoint is $50,580 a year, with most starting near $43,420.

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$50,580median a year · United States
$24.32an hour $52,370average 55,810people
Nine in ten people in this work earn between the two ends. The shaded part is the middle half — where most people are.
$43,42025th $50,580median $60,08075th
$38,04010th percentile $68,62090th percentile
$43,420a year at the 25th percentile, nearer a first job
$62,880best-paying state · District of Columbia
$38,710lowest-paying state · Tennessee
+24%top state against the national median
  • Read the spread, not the middle. The median is the midpoint across everyone in the occupation, most of them years into the work. A beginner starts nearer the 10th to 25th percentile, which is why the spread is published alongside it.
  • What the figure counts. The figure counts base pay plus tips, commissions and production bonuses. It leaves out the self-employed, unpaid family workers, private household workers, and the value of benefits or profit sharing.
  • The annual figure is arithmetic. For hourly occupations the annual figure is the hourly rate times 2080 hours. It is a calculation, not observed earnings: part time is the norm in retail and food service.
  • Where you live moves it more than your resume does. National figures. A state or metro area can sit far from the national number, and that gap is usually larger than any difference a resume makes.
  • Not in these numbers. Growth and annual openings are not in this dataset. They come from the separate Employment Projections tables, where an opening is a modelled ten year average and not a posted vacancy.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, 2025. Retrieved through the BLS Public Data API on 2026-08-13. bls.gov/oes “BLS.gov cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov.”

State matters a lotThe same job pays $62,880 in District of Columbia and $38,710 in Tennessee — a gap of $24,170 a year.

Procurement clerk earnings, from starting pay to the highest 10%

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Procurement clerk wages across the states

The 47 states where the most people do this work, of 51 with a published figure: their medians range by 1.62 times. Figures are the 2025 survey.

State Median a year Where most start 10th to 90th Employed
District of Columbia $62,880 $47,670 $47,670 — $88,850 220
Massachusetts $60,110 $46,520 $46,520 — $72,210 520
New Hampshire $58,830 $42,820 $42,820 — $77,950 190
Minnesota $58,100 $42,450 $42,450 — $68,620 790
New Jersey $57,460 $39,690 $39,690 — $72,660 2,370
California $56,160 $40,100 $40,100 — $75,110 7,080
Colorado $55,210 $39,270 $39,270 — $71,100 830
Utah $54,950 $36,360 $36,360 — $73,510 540
Virginia $54,660 $42,120 $42,120 — $69,240 930
Alaska $54,100 $43,260 $43,260 — $71,390 230
New York $54,080 $40,630 $40,630 — $74,030 2,680
Rhode Island $53,980 $41,280 $41,280 — $75,080 210
Maryland $53,960 $38,530 $38,530 — $76,900 1,230
Hawaii $53,890 $42,100 $42,100 — $67,810 330
Pennsylvania $53,800 $41,400 $41,400 — $71,550 2,360
Maine $53,070 $41,550 $41,550 — $72,220 320
Alabama $52,940 $38,790 $38,790 — $65,600 260
Washington $52,910 $43,760 $43,760 — $69,240 1,750
Oregon $52,700 $40,630 $40,630 — $67,280 510
Nevada $51,530 $35,080 $35,080 — $72,890 580
New Mexico $51,080 $38,210 $38,210 — $71,480 460
Georgia $50,730 $33,870 $33,870 — $67,090 1,800
Kentucky $50,610 $37,060 $37,060 — $64,410 810
Connecticut $50,510 $34,010 $34,010 — $70,640 710
North Carolina $50,390 $37,990 $37,990 — $64,330 1,460
Idaho $50,310 $38,200 $38,200 — $65,000 470
Michigan $49,980 $39,390 $39,390 — $65,550 1,220
Oklahoma $49,940 $37,620 $37,620 — $64,940 830
Ohio $49,880 $37,330 $37,330 — $64,360 1,350
South Carolina $49,810 $36,980 $36,980 — $72,080 900
Louisiana $49,680 $38,100 $38,100 — $66,290 760
Montana $49,560 $39,030 $39,030 — $61,610 150
Wisconsin $49,410 $40,090 $40,090 — $64,440 1,050
Indiana $49,210 $36,150 $36,150 — $64,250 1,110
Iowa $48,870 $38,370 $38,370 — $62,540 680
Missouri $48,820 $33,480 $33,480 — $66,580 630
Florida $48,710 $37,990 $37,990 — $62,650 2,890
West Virginia $48,050 $36,110 $36,110 — $63,840 520
Arizona $47,970 $37,250 $37,250 — $64,940 1,300
Nebraska $47,950 $37,900 $37,900 — $64,940 910
Illinois $47,770 $37,490 $37,490 — $64,500 1,950
Arkansas $47,760 $37,040 $37,040 — $70,110 400
Kansas $47,730 $36,330 $36,330 — $62,200 430
Texas $47,660 $35,100 $35,100 — $64,400 3,740
South Dakota $46,690 $34,870 $34,870 — $59,800 170
Mississippi $46,270 $31,510 $31,510 — $64,530 860
Tennessee $38,710 $36,750 $36,750 — $57,790 3,900

Ranked 511 of 788 by median pay

Better paid than 35% of the occupations in the survey.

  1. 509 Lathe and Turning Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic $50,620
  2. 510 Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping $50,610
  3. 511 Procurement Clerks $50,580
  4. 512 Floor Sanders and Finishers $50,440
  5. 513 Costume Attendants $50,400

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  • Tracked the status of requisitions, contracts, and orders.
  • Performed buying duties when necessary.
  • Prepared purchase orders and sent copies to suppliers and to departments originating requests.

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Nearby work, and what it pays

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Procurement Clerks$50,580
Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks$58,260+$7,680 Financial Clerks, All Other$53,830+$3,250 Bookkeeping, accounting and auditing clerks$50,670+$90 Billing and Posting Clerks$48,500−$2,080 Tellers$43,030−$7,550

Procurement clerk pay rate, hourly and yearly

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Questions people ask

What is a procurement clerk’s yearly income?

A procurement clerk makes a median of $50,580 a year (2025 survey). The middle half earn between $43,420 and $60,080.

What is a procurement clerk’s hourly pay rate?

The median pay rate is $24.32 an hour; the average is $52,370 a year.

What is the starting pay for a procurement clerk?

Starting pay is usually near the 25th percentile, $43,420 a year, and sometimes as low as the 10th, $38,040.

Which state pays procurement clerks the most?

District of Columbia, with a median of $62,880 a year.

How many people work as procurement clerks?

About 55,810 in the United States — number 511 of 788 occupations by median pay.

Work that pays about the same

Median pay within $90 of what procurement clerks earn — $50,580 a year — but not always the same spread.

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