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New Accounts Clerks earn $47,670 a year at the midpoint

Starting pay is close to the middle here: the 25th percentile is $43,920 against a median of $47,670, so the first years are not a long climb.

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$47,670median a year · United States

$22.92an hour $49,370average 36,860people

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

$43,92025th $47,670median $55,10075th

$38,18010th percentile $60,91090th percentile

$43,920a year at the 25th percentile, nearer a first job

$60,990best-paying state · District of Columbia

$35,680lowest-paying state · Arkansas

+28%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.
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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.”

A short climbThe 25th percentile, $43,920, is within 8% of the median.

State matters a lotThe same job pays $60,990 in District of Columbia and $35,680 in Arkansas — a gap of $25,310 a year.

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

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Place 576 of 788 by median pay

Better paid than 27% of the occupations in the survey.

574 Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic $47,720
575 Medical Equipment Preparers $47,700
576 New Accounts Clerks $47,670
577 Automotive Glass Installers and Repairers $47,630
578 Helpers--Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, and Tile and Marble Setters $47,550

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Performed teller duties as required.
Compiled information about new accounts, enter account information into computers, and file related forms or other documents.
Collected and recorded customer deposits and fees and issue receipts, using computers.

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New accounts clerk pay rate, hourly to annual

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$47,674a year

New accounts clerk wages by state

The 43 states where the most people do this work, of 45 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
North Dakota	$57,970	$42,670	$42,670 — $74,100	140
New York	$57,950	$46,470	$46,470 — $68,550	4,800
New Jersey	$57,240	$44,730	$44,730 — $81,030	230
Connecticut	$57,080	$47,460	$47,460 — $62,840	420
Washington	$52,830	$46,300	$46,300 — $63,290	310
California	$52,100	$45,680	$45,680 — $72,690	950
New Mexico	$51,380	$35,080	$35,080 — $57,920	150
Missouri	$50,270	$36,600	$36,600 — $62,600	590
Tennessee	$49,770	$39,500	$39,500 — $64,020	420
North Carolina	$49,480	$43,690	$43,690 — $71,300	1,910
Illinois	$49,040	$39,090	$39,090 — $60,470	2,020
Minnesota	$48,920	$39,870	$39,870 — $61,860	1,160
Colorado	$48,870	$43,590	$43,590 — $63,080	390
Oregon	$48,330	$45,440	$45,440 — $58,400	1,410
New Hampshire	$48,170	$39,160	$39,160 — $58,390	410
Wisconsin	$48,050	$43,710	$43,710 — $59,320	2,100
Vermont	$47,910	$45,950	$45,950 — $61,860	190
Nevada	$47,450	$40,250	$40,250 — $69,320	850
Hawaii	$47,440	$44,750	$44,750 — $54,150	140
Maine	$47,420	$44,450	$44,450 — $57,980	510
Pennsylvania	$47,330	$38,780	$38,780 — $58,700	1,400
Delaware	$47,150	$37,360	$37,360 — $56,810	140
Nebraska	$47,140	$38,060	$38,060 — $65,400	1,150
Michigan	$46,780	$38,180	$38,180 — $59,430	1,800
Virginia	$46,350	$38,100	$38,100 — $58,410	640
Florida	$45,930	$40,070	$40,070 — $61,120	910
Georgia	$45,770	$38,680	$38,680 — $59,560	1,650
Idaho	$45,760	$37,270	$37,270 — $55,180	350
Wyoming	$45,760	$37,440	$37,440 — $49,730	180
Iowa	$45,630	$38,220	$38,220 — $55,710	1,320
South Carolina	$45,500	$39,220	$39,220 — $51,650	60
Utah	$44,890	$39,490	$39,490 — $57,120	210
Alabama	$44,780	$34,030	$34,030 — $48,820	140
Texas	$44,040	$35,910	$35,910 — $54,920	2,360
Kentucky	$43,990	$36,900	$36,900 — $50,700	240
Montana	$43,610	$38,310	$38,310 — $49,170	470
Oklahoma	$43,380	$33,110	$33,110 — $50,290	1,650
Maryland	$43,200	$34,620	$34,620 — $59,240	80
Indiana	$42,950	$38,010	$38,010 — $58,360	480
Mississippi	$40,910	$33,860	$33,860 — $59,190	160
Kansas	$40,170	$34,080	$34,080 — $54,640	1,100
West Virginia	$38,520	$30,140	$30,140 — $45,480	150
Arkansas	$35,680	$30,850	$30,850 — $57,500	730

No estimate is published for 1 states: the survey withholds a figure when too few employers report it. Nothing has been filled in for them.

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What is a new accounts clerk’s yearly income?

A new accounts clerk makes a median of $47,670 a year (2025 survey). The middle half earn between $43,920 and $55,100.

What is a new accounts clerk’s hourly pay rate?

The median pay rate is $22.92 an hour; the average is $49,370 a year.

What is the starting pay for a new accounts clerk?

Starting pay is usually near the 25th percentile, $43,920 a year, and sometimes as low as the 10th, $38,180.

Which state pays new accounts clerks the most?

District of Columbia, with a median of $60,990 a year.

How many people work as new accounts clerks?

About 36,860 in the United States — number 576 of 788 occupations by median pay.

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Median pay within $120 of what new accounts clerks earn — $47,670 a year — but not always the same spread.

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