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Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks · SOC 43-4081

Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks Salary in the Washington Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro area

Figures describe the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Washington city limits.

Median annual wage$37,690
Median hourly wage$18.12

Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro area earned a median of $37,690 per year ($18.12 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $34,760 at the 10th percentile to $47,920 at the 90th. BLS estimates 4,530 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks in the Washington metro area earn more than $37,690 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $36,140 and $44,600.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$34,760$36,140$37,690$44,600$47,920
Hourly$16.71$17.38$18.12$21.44$23.04

A percentile is a cut point: 25% of workers in this occupation and area earn less than the 25th-percentile wage. The median is the 50th percentile — half earn less, half earn more.

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How this area compares

  • Washington metro areathis metro area
    $37,690
  • District of Columbiastate (DC)
    $47,060
  • United Statesnational
    $35,070

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

The median here is −20% vs District of Columbia overall and +7% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

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Where this metro sits nationally

$21,840$34,680$47,520$60,360Mayaguez, PR — $21,840Ponce, PR — $22,420Aguadilla, PR — $22,990Enid, OK — $23,010Eagle Pass, TX — $23,500Sumter, SC — $23,790Monroe, LA — $23,950Hammond, LA — $24,340San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR — $24,350Lawton, OK — $24,890Beckley, WV — $24,960Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL — $25,860Hattiesburg, MS — $25,980Lafayette, LA — $26,000Victoria, TX — $26,060McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX — $26,170Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH — $26,210Gadsden, AL — $26,320Longview, TX — $26,450Brownsville-Harlingen, TX — $26,530Laredo, TX — $26,590Shreveport-Bossier City, LA — $26,660Lubbock, TX — $26,670San Angelo, TX — $26,690Texarkana, TX-AR — $26,860Goldsboro, NC — $26,920Dothan, AL — $26,970Jonesboro, AR — $26,970Rocky Mount, NC — $26,970Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA — $27,000Morgantown, WV — $27,010Corpus Christi, TX — $27,040Charleston, WV — $27,050Wichita Falls, TX — $27,060Tyler, TX — $27,110Anniston-Oxford, AL — $27,180Killeen-Temple, TX — $27,370Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX — $27,420Jacksonville, NC — $27,440Albany, GA — $27,490Lake Charles, LA — $27,570College Station-Bryan, TX — $27,640Jackson, MS — $27,670Altoona, PA — $27,680Auburn-Opelika, AL — $27,730Gulfport-Biloxi, MS — $27,730Athens-Clarke County, GA — $27,760Fort Smith, AR-OK — $27,760Oklahoma City, OK — $27,780El Paso, TX — $27,810Sherman-Denison, TX — $27,840Hinesville, GA — $27,850Montgomery, AL — $27,870Owensboro, KY — $27,880Baton Rouge, LA — $27,910Valdosta, GA — $27,920Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA — $28,030Las Cruces, NM — $28,100Columbus, GA-AL — $28,120Abilene, TX — $28,140Greenville, NC — $28,150Hot Springs, AR — $28,150Tulsa, OK — $28,200Johnson City, TN — $28,230Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC — $28,270Clarksville, TN-KY — $28,310Tuscaloosa, AL — $28,350Fayetteville, NC — $28,380Johnstown, PA — $28,390Mobile, AL — $28,390Jackson, TN — $28,410Cleveland, TN — $28,440Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH — $28,510Wheeling, WV-OH — $28,610Manhattan, KS — $28,630Waco, TX — $28,640Elizabethtown, KY — $28,700Decatur, AL — $28,720Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL — $28,740Birmingham, AL — $28,750Bowling Green, KY — $28,760Odessa, TX — $28,760Morristown, TN — $28,780Farmington, NM — $28,810Michigan City-La Porte, IN — $28,830Paducah, KY-IL — $28,840Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC — $28,970Gainesville, GA — $29,020Erie, PA — $29,060Mansfield, OH — $29,080Winston-Salem, NC — $29,080Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $29,090Brunswick-St. Simons, GA — $29,120Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR — $29,160Huntsville, AL — $29,170Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC — $29,180Columbia, SC — $29,240Greensboro-High Point, NC — $29,250Wichita, KS — $29,250Youngstown-Warren, OH — $29,270Spartanburg, SC — $29,310Pocatello, ID — $29,330New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $29,340Chattanooga, TN-GA — $29,350Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN — $29,380Casper, WY — $29,480Roanoke, VA — $29,490Wilmington, NC — $29,520Springfield, OH — $29,610Lima, OH — $29,640Twin Falls, ID — $29,680Williamsport, PA — $29,700Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA — $29,720Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC — $29,730Florence, SC — $29,770Terre Haute, IN — $29,810Bay City, MI — $29,830Cedar Rapids, IA — $29,860San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $29,870Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $29,900Albuquerque, NM — $29,910Lebanon, PA — $29,910Chambersburg, PA — $29,920Knoxville, TN — $29,970Gettysburg, PA — $29,990Staunton-Stuarts Draft, VA — $30,070Kokomo, IN — $30,080Canton-Massillon, OH — $30,110Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA — $30,150Lexington-Fayette, KY — $30,160Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA — $30,190Grand Island, NE — $30,230Saginaw, MI — $30,260Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $30,270Winchester, VA-WV — $30,310Cheyenne, WY — $30,330Rapid City, SD — $30,340York-Hanover, PA — $30,410Savannah, GA — $30,420Akron, OH — $30,440Tallahassee, FL — $30,490State College, PA — $30,500Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $30,510Joplin, MO-KS — $30,510Topeka, KS — $30,520Monroe, MI — $30,540Lawrence, KS — $30,550Muncie, IN — $30,570Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ — $30,580Evansville, IN — $30,620Janesville-Beloit, WI — $30,690Pittsburgh, PA — $30,690Muskegon-Norton Shores, MI — $30,710Sandusky, OH — $30,720South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI — $30,730Logan, UT-ID — $30,770Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $30,780Raleigh-Cary, NC — $30,800Elkhart-Goshen, IN — $30,840Columbus, IN — $30,850Richmond, VA — $30,850Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $30,910Harrisonburg, VA — $30,950Durham-Chapel Hill, NC — $30,960Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $30,980Toledo, OH — $31,040Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $31,080Bloomington, IL — $31,200Dover, DE — $31,200Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV — $31,200Jefferson City, MO — $31,220Sioux City, IA-NE-SD — $31,280Kankakee, IL — $31,400Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC — $31,430Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL — $31,440Springfield, MO — $31,520Battle Creek, MI — $31,600Lancaster, PA — $31,660Sioux Falls, SD-MN — $31,720Carson City, NV — $31,750Salisbury, MD — $31,750Yuma, AZ — $31,750Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $31,770Flint, MI — $31,840Reading, PA — $31,840Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $31,850Pueblo, CO — $32,000Idaho Falls, ID — $32,160Columbia, MO — $32,190Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $32,220Kalamazoo-Portage, MI — $32,240Niles, MI — $32,350Lincoln, NE — $32,460Homosassa Springs, FL — $32,670Fond du Lac, WI — $32,730Cape Girardeau, MO-IL — $33,020St. Joseph, MO-KS — $33,080Fort Wayne, IN — $33,100Ocala, FL — $33,110Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $33,130Cleveland, OH — $33,140Racine-Mount Pleasant, WI — $33,160Iowa City, IA — $33,290Rockford, IL — $33,330Gainesville, FL — $33,370Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ — $33,380Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL — $33,390Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL — $33,400Santa Fe, NM — $33,440Panama City-Panama City Beach, FL — $33,470Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL — $33,570Champaign-Urbana, IL — $33,680Bloomington, IN — $33,730Columbus, OH — $33,730Charlottesville, VA — $33,780Sebastian-Vero Beach-West Vero Corridor, FL — $33,800Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $33,860Greeley, CO — $33,870Lansing-East Lansing, MI — $33,900Wildwood-The Villages, FL — $33,930Great Falls, MT — $34,160Lexington Park, MD — $34,170Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $34,180Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $34,190Jacksonville, FL — $34,190Springfield, IL — $34,210Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL — $34,260Punta Gorda, FL — $34,280Port St. Lucie, FL — $34,290Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $34,340Grand Forks, ND-MN — $34,440Bismarck, ND — $34,470Tucson, AZ — $34,470Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $34,500Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ — $34,510Dubuque, IA — $34,520Omaha, NE-IA — $34,530Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $34,620Eau Claire, WI — $34,680Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $34,710Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT — $34,720Helena, MT — $34,730Corvallis, OR — $34,770Binghamton, NY — $34,880Fargo, ND-MN — $34,950Traverse City, MI — $34,950Watertown-Fort Drum, NY — $35,010Grand Junction, CO — $35,020Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $35,090Wausau, WI — $35,110Boise City, ID — $35,170Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $35,180Green Bay, WI — $35,180Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL — $35,190La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN — $35,210North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL — $35,220Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL — $35,230St. George, UT — $35,270Asheville, NC — $35,280St. Cloud, MN — $35,290Colorado Springs, CO — $35,320Missoula, MT — $35,380Glens Falls, NY — $35,410Ann Arbor, MI — $35,460Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $35,500Billings, MT — $35,510Kansas City, MO-KS — $35,530Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC — $35,550Fort Collins-Loveland, CO — $35,580Kenosha, WI — $35,610Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $35,630Pittsfield, MA — $35,630Appleton, WI — $35,640Rochester, NY — $35,640Grants Pass, OR — $35,660Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $35,660Walla Walla, WA — $35,670Utica-Rome, NY — $35,680Eugene-Springfield, OR — $35,690Ogden, UT — $35,690Sheboygan, WI — $35,690Duluth, MN-WI — $35,710Medford, OR — $35,710Oshkosh-Neenah, WI — $35,720Waterbury-Shelton, CT — $35,770Redding, CA — $35,790Syracuse, NY — $35,870Mankato, MN — $35,900Albany, OR — $35,930Fresno, CA — $35,950Merced, CA — $35,950St. Louis, MO-IL — $35,970Ithaca, NY — $35,990Chico, CA — $36,020Flagstaff, AZ — $36,060Visalia, CA — $36,090Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $36,130Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $36,130Manchester-Nashua, NH — $36,140Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT — $36,140Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $36,160El Centro, CA — $36,230Reno, NV — $36,230Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $36,250Madison, WI — $36,410Yuba City, CA — $36,450Modesto, CA — $36,620Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $36,640Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $36,650Rochester, MN — $36,690Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $36,740Bangor, ME — $36,830Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $36,860Naples-Marco Island, FL — $36,890Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ — $36,950Yakima, WA — $36,960Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $37,030Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $37,080Fairbanks-College, AK — $37,150Salem, OR — $37,170Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY — $37,240Stockton-Lodi, CA — $37,250Anchorage, AK — $37,320Hanford-Corcoran, CA — $37,330Coeur d'Alene, ID — $37,350Longview-Kelso, WA — $37,430Bozeman, MT — $37,450San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA — $37,460New Haven, CT — $37,520Bend, OR — $37,530Trenton-Princeton, NJ — $37,650Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $37,690Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $37,710Barnstable Town, MA — $37,850Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA — $37,860Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA — $37,870Amherst Town-Northampton, MA — $37,910Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA — $38,020Kennewick-Richland, WA — $38,110Kingston, NY — $38,130Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $38,150Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA — $38,200Vallejo, CA — $38,220Salinas, CA — $38,320Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA — $38,470Boulder, CO — $38,520Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $38,520Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $38,540Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA — $38,650Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT — $38,760Portland-South Portland, ME — $38,910Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $38,970San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $39,000Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA — $39,070Bellingham, WA — $39,140Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA — $39,560Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $39,620Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $39,990Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $40,760New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $43,490Napa, CA — $43,950Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $44,520San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $44,670San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $45,230Burlington-South Burlington, VT — $46,500Urban Honolulu, HI — $59,940Kahului-Wailuku, HI — $60,360

Each dot is one metro area with a published median — hover any dot for the name and figure. Metros without published estimates are not drawn.

The Washington metro area has the 36th-highest published median for this occupation among the 367 metro areas where BLS publishes it. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

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Other occupations in the same SOC group with published medians here, largest employment first:

Office Clerks, General$51,880Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive$53,660Customer Service Representatives$46,220First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers$76,400Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants$48,280Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks$59,290

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About this estimate

These figures are survey estimates from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program — modeled from employer reports collected over three years and benchmarked to May 2025. They describe what employers in this area currently pay across all industries, not what any individual worker will be offered.

Employment counts wage-and-salary jobs in the occupation (self-employed workers are excluded). Estimates carry sampling error; percentile wages are rounded by BLS. Some values are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality or quality — suppressed values appear here as “not published”, never as zero. Read the full methodology.

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.