New Accounts Clerks · SOC 43-4141

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for New Accounts Clerkss

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for new accounts clerks. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked (5 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 146 metro areas

New Accounts Clerks: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$58,980	2,940	0.3
2	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$58,410	160	0.1
3	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$57,840	Not published	Not published
4	St. Louis, MO-IL	$57,090	380	0.3
5	Waterbury-Shelton, CT	$57,050	Not published	Not published
6	New Haven, CT	$56,820	90	0.3
7	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$55,980	480	0.2
8	Flint, MI	$55,440	100	0.7
9	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$55,440	130	0.1
10	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$55,170	140	0.1
11	Fargo, ND-MN	$53,950	70	0.4
12	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$52,830	400	0.1
13	Memphis, TN-MS-AR	$51,750	150	0.3
14	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$51,090	Not published	Not published
15	York-Hanover, PA	$50,790	50	0.3
16	Kingston, NY	$50,630	50	0.9
17	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$50,570	530	0.4
18	Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN	$50,460	Not published	Not published
19	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$50,270	50	0.0
20	Ann Arbor, MI	$50,170	60	0.3
21	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$50,090	140	0.1
22	Asheville, NC	$49,980	120	0.7
23	Madison, WI	$49,970	310	0.8
24	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	$49,950	1,270	0.3
25	Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX	$49,850	550	0.1

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the New Accounts 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.