Billing and Posting Clerks · SOC 43-3021

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Billing and Posting Clerkss

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025U.S. metropolitan areas

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for billing and posting clerks. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked (3 such areas are excluded here). Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Top 25 of 389 metro areas

Billing and Posting Clerks: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$70,280	2,350	2.1
2	Rochester, MN	$67,390	500	4.1
3	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$66,390	4,690	2.0
4	New Haven, CT	$61,180	980	3.5
5	Napa, CA	$59,810	120	1.6
6	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$58,920	6,410	3.1
7	Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA	$58,400	210	2.1
8	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$58,350	350	1.7
9	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$58,250	790	2.4
10	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$58,240	4,950	3.1
11	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$58,190	2,550	2.4
12	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$58,100	5,710	2.1
13	Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA	$57,490	200	3.7
14	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$57,330	4,080	2.1
15	Kahului-Wailuku, HI	$56,870	110	1.5
16	Barnstable Town, MA	$56,370	150	1.6
17	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$56,160	32,930	3.5
18	Bend, OR	$56,100	340	3.1
19	Salem, OR	$56,040	460	2.4
20	Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	$55,960	900	2.2
21	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$55,920	4,450	1.4
22	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$55,260	3,610	2.3
23	Vallejo, CA	$54,990	250	1.7
24	Durham-Chapel Hill, NC	$54,560	250	0.7
25	Worcester, MA	$54,480	550	1.6

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Billing and Posting Clerks overview.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.