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Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service · SOC 43-9051

Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service Salary in the Columbia Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Columbia, SC metro area

Figures describe the Columbia, SC metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Columbia city limits.

Median annual wage$36,440
Median hourly wage$17.52

Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service in the Columbia, SC metro area earned a median of $36,440 per year ($17.52 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $32,130 at the 10th percentile to $49,440 at the 90th. BLS estimates 160 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service in the Columbia metro area earn more than $36,440 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $35,320 and $45,510.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$32,130$35,320$36,440$45,510$49,440
Hourly$15.45$16.98$17.52$21.88$23.77

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

  • Columbia metro areathis metro area
    $36,440
  • South Carolinastate (SC)
    $36,780
  • United Statesnational
    $39,280

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

The median here is −1% vs South Carolina overall and −7% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$24,090$33,223$42,357$51,490San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR — $24,090McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX — $29,480Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA — $29,990Logan, UT-ID — $30,510Charleston, WV — $31,060Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL — $32,140Savannah, GA — $33,200Chattanooga, TN-GA — $33,430El Paso, TX — $33,730Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV — $33,750Spartanburg, SC — $33,870Appleton, WI — $33,900Baton Rouge, LA — $34,140Roanoke, VA — $34,310Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $34,510Shreveport-Bossier City, LA — $34,520Traverse City, MI — $34,670Cheyenne, WY — $34,690Lubbock, TX — $34,800Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA — $34,880Waco, TX — $34,960Youngstown-Warren, OH — $35,030Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL — $35,070Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC — $35,260Knoxville, TN — $35,280Springfield, MO — $35,300Greensboro-High Point, NC — $35,320Champaign-Urbana, IL — $35,460Topeka, KS — $35,500Rapid City, SD — $35,540Jefferson City, MO — $35,550Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL — $35,610Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $35,720Reading, PA — $35,800Springfield, IL — $35,820Columbus, GA-AL — $35,990Toledo, OH — $36,100Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $36,210Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL — $36,290Wichita, KS — $36,310Winston-Salem, NC — $36,320Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL — $36,330Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $36,400Columbia, SC — $36,440Jackson, MS — $36,500New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $36,620South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI — $36,630Pittsburgh, PA — $36,660Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $36,670Kalamazoo-Portage, MI — $36,680Tulsa, OK — $36,680Fresno, CA — $36,690Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA — $36,810Lynchburg, VA — $36,820San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $36,870Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $36,900Peoria, IL — $36,920Urban Honolulu, HI — $37,020Tallahassee, FL — $37,070Canton-Massillon, OH — $37,090State College, PA — $37,100Green Bay, WI — $37,110Oshkosh-Neenah, WI — $37,230Bloomington, IL — $37,290Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA — $37,320Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $37,380Lexington Park, MD — $37,430Montgomery, AL — $37,430Billings, MT — $37,440Binghamton, NY — $37,520Fayetteville, NC — $37,550Oklahoma City, OK — $37,620Akron, OH — $37,630Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $37,730Helena, MT — $37,750Ann Arbor, MI — $37,800Amarillo, TX — $37,840Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH — $37,840Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $37,870Lexington-Fayette, KY — $37,890Evansville, IN — $37,900Stockton-Lodi, CA — $37,900Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC — $37,950Wilmington, NC — $38,000St. Louis, MO-IL — $38,010Sioux Falls, SD-MN — $38,020Cedar Rapids, IA — $38,050Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $38,100Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $38,100Columbia, MO — $38,110Fargo, ND-MN — $38,120Richmond, VA — $38,170Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $38,180Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $38,260Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $38,460Lancaster, PA — $38,480Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $38,520Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $38,530Fort Wayne, IN — $38,540Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $38,570Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $38,630Utica-Rome, NY — $38,730Bellingham, WA — $38,760Birmingham, AL — $38,780Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $39,000Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC — $39,000North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL — $39,000Kansas City, MO-KS — $39,060Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY — $39,070Asheville, NC — $39,100Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $39,120Lansing-East Lansing, MI — $39,310Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $39,390Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $39,460Rochester, NY — $39,520Gulfport-Biloxi, MS — $39,540Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $39,580Lincoln, NE — $39,650Columbus, OH — $39,680Cleveland, OH — $39,730Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $39,740Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA — $39,870Killeen-Temple, TX — $39,890Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $39,990Bozeman, MT — $40,070Raleigh-Cary, NC — $40,130Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $40,220Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR — $40,230Manchester-Nashua, NH — $40,230Huntsville, AL — $40,300Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $40,520Omaha, NE-IA — $40,590Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA — $40,600Tucson, AZ — $40,620Albuquerque, NM — $40,640Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $40,660Waterbury-Shelton, CT — $40,700Visalia, CA — $40,830Boise City, ID — $41,150Anchorage, AK — $41,200Durham-Chapel Hill, NC — $41,210Kingston, NY — $41,390Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $41,760Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $41,800Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $41,940Syracuse, NY — $42,150Colorado Springs, CO — $42,200Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $42,320Madison, WI — $42,340Carson City, NV — $42,660Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $43,000Jacksonville, FL — $43,080San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $43,180Brownsville-Harlingen, TX — $43,240Iowa City, IA — $43,240Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $43,430Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $43,540Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $43,590New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $44,220St. Cloud, MN — $44,220Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $44,280Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT — $44,580Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $44,760Portland-South Portland, ME — $44,800Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $44,840Burlington-South Burlington, VT — $45,380York-Hanover, PA — $45,390New Haven, CT — $45,710Reno, NV — $46,230Worcester, MA — $46,290Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $46,930Mankato, MN — $47,050Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT — $47,050San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $47,430Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $47,500San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $48,050Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $48,120Salem, OR — $48,420Duluth, MN-WI — $48,430Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $49,270Trenton-Princeton, NJ — $49,520Springfield, MA — $51,490

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 Columbia metro area has the 139th-highest published median for this occupation among the 182 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”.

Other metro areas in South Carolina

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • Columbia metro areathis page
    $36,440
  • Greenville metro area
    $39,000
  • Charleston metro area
    $34,510
  • Spartanburg metro area
    $33,870

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

Keep exploring

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

Customer Service Representatives$37,430Office Clerks, General$38,320Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive$45,620First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers$62,230Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks$46,690Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants$40,160

Highest-paying metro areas for mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal services · Highest-paying occupations in Columbia Metro

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.