Pay · 43-4021

Correspondence Clerks earn $46,800 a year at the midpoint

Only about 4,290 people do this work in the United States, and half of them earn more than $46,800 a year. The lowest tenth are paid about $33,300, the highest tenth about $64,510.

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$46,800median a year · United States

$22.50an hour $48,090average 4,290people

Nine in ten people in this work earn between the two ends. The shaded part is the middle half — where most people are.

$38,61025th $46,800median $56,09075th

$33,30010th percentile $64,51090th percentile

$38,610a year at the 25th percentile, nearer a first job

$61,310best-paying state · Connecticut

$36,790lowest-paying state · Louisiana

+31%top state against the national median

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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 $61,310 in Connecticut and $36,790 in Louisiana — a gap of $24,520 a year.

Correspondence clerk earnings, from starting pay to the best-paid 10%

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Maintained files and control records to show correspondence activities.
Read incoming correspondence to ascertain nature of writers' concerns and to determine disposition of correspondence.
Gathered records pertinent to specific problems, review them for completeness and accuracy, and attach records to correspondence as necessary.

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Correspondence clerk pay rate, hourly to annual

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$46,800a year

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Correspondence clerk wages by state

The 25 states where the most people do this work, of 26 with a published figure: their medians range by 1.67 times. Figures are the 2025 survey.

State	Median a year	Where most start	10th to 90th	Employed
Connecticut	$61,310	$42,840	$42,840 — $64,510	70
Oregon	$61,160	$49,660	$49,660 — $75,490	110
California	$53,640	$37,130	$37,130 — $81,070	240
Idaho	$51,010	$46,380	$46,380 — $55,490	40
Nebraska	$49,800	$39,270	$39,270 — $49,800	60
New Hampshire	$49,730	$34,380	$34,380 — $60,070	120
Indiana	$49,710	$32,130	$32,130 — $58,740	70
Ohio	$49,700	$35,650	$35,650 — $58,020	40
New York	$49,360	$37,840	$37,840 — $66,800	540
Maine	$49,180	$40,260	$40,260 — $57,840	40
Texas	$48,860	$36,850	$36,850 — $66,620	830
New Jersey	$48,510	$32,220	$32,220 — $63,470	40
Virginia	$48,310	$30,640	$30,640 — $48,310	—
Nevada	$47,820	$40,650	$40,650 — $61,030	130
Utah	$47,450	$37,460	$37,460 — $51,490	140
Illinois	$46,280	$39,090	$39,090 — $71,840	50
Colorado	$45,510	$32,560	$32,560 — $66,150	50
Missouri	$43,400	$34,260	$34,260 — $46,240	70
Tennessee	$42,390	$35,100	$35,100 — $50,280	100
North Carolina	$42,340	$40,400	$40,400 — $62,640	50
South Carolina	$41,710	$37,310	$37,310 — $52,480	130
Michigan	$40,780	$33,850	$33,850 — $56,600	40
Pennsylvania	$40,270	$35,630	$35,630 — $58,610	140
Arizona	$39,900	$31,400	$31,400 — $59,680	110
Louisiana	$36,790	$31,930	$31,930 — $51,210	60

No estimate is published for 2 states: the survey withholds a figure when too few employers report it. Nothing has been filled in for them.

Place 594 of 788 by median pay

Better paid than 25% of the occupations in the survey.

592 Rehabilitation Counselors $46,850
593 Self-Enrichment Teachers $46,800
594 Correspondence Clerks $46,800
595 Parking Enforcement Workers $46,730
596 Cabinetmakers and Bench Carpenters $46,680

What people often ask

What is a correspondence clerk’s yearly income?

A correspondence clerk makes a median of $46,800 a year (2025 survey). The middle half earn between $38,610 and $56,090.

What is a correspondence clerk’s hourly pay rate?

The median pay rate is $22.50 an hour; the average is $48,090 a year.

What is the starting pay for a correspondence clerk?

Starting pay is usually near the 25th percentile, $38,610 a year, and sometimes as low as the 10th, $33,300.

Which state pays correspondence clerks the most?

Connecticut, with a median of $61,310 a year.

How many people work as correspondence clerks?

About 4,290 in the United States — number 594 of 788 occupations by median pay.

Work that pays nearly the same

Median pay within $60 of what correspondence clerks earn — $46,800 a year — but not always the same spread.

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