Billing and Posting Clerks Career, Salary and Skills
Billing and Posting Clerks have a BLS-reported national median annual wage of $48,500 based on the 2025 OEWS dataset, with reported national employment of 404,060. Wage data is published for 443 locations.
Occupation description
Compile, compute, and record billing, accounting, statistical, and other numerical data for billing purposes. Prepare billing invoices for services rendered or for delivery or shipment of goods.
O*NET code
43-3021.00
Job zone
2
Typical education
Not recorded
Experience
Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years
National salary and employment
Median annual
$48,500
Hourly median
$23.32
Employment
404,060
Data year
2025
National salary distribution
Top skills
| Skill | Importance | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Reading Comprehension | 3.75 | 3.12 |
| Speaking | 3.12 | 3.00 |
| Active Listening | 3.00 | 3.12 |
| Monitoring | 3.00 | 2.75 |
| Writing | 3.00 | 2.88 |
| Critical Thinking | 3.00 | 3.00 |
| Mathematics | 3.00 | 3.00 |
| Time Management | 2.88 | 2.75 |
| Social Perceptiveness | 2.75 | 2.62 |
| Active Learning | 2.62 | 2.50 |
Typical tasks
- Prepare itemized statements, bills, or invoices and record amounts due for items purchased or services rendered.
- Keep records of invoices and support documents.
- Operate typing, adding, calculating, or billing machines.
- Create billing documents, shipping labels, credit memorandums, or credit forms.
- Perform general administrative tasks, such as answering telephones, scheduling appointments, and ordering supplies or equipment.
- Contact customers to obtain or relay account information.
- Review compiled data on operating costs and revenues to set rates.
- Verify accuracy of billing data and revise any errors.
Technology
- Accuity EPICWare
- Aderant legal software
- Allscripts Professional PM
- Automated billing software
- CAI Software Seasoft
- Check imaging software
- Check processing software
- Check sorting control software
- Database software
- eMDs Medisoft
- Epic Systems
- File management systems
- Fiserv PEP+ reACH
- GE Healthcare Centricity EMR
Billing and Posting Clerks salary by location
Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.
- Billing and Posting Clerks Salary in CAMedian $56,260 · Employment 41,290
- Billing and Posting Clerks Salary in New York, NYMedian $56,160 · Employment 32,930
- Billing and Posting Clerks Salary in NYMedian $53,320 · Employment 32,770
- Billing and Posting Clerks Salary in TXMedian $45,910 · Employment 31,150
- Billing and Posting Clerks Salary in FLMedian $46,540 · Employment 28,560
- Billing and Posting Clerks Salary in ILMedian $49,730 · Employment 21,010
- Billing and Posting Clerks Salary in OHMedian $46,390 · Employment 19,480
- Billing and Posting Clerks Salary in Los Angeles, CAMedian $53,070 · Employment 16,670
- Billing and Posting Clerks Salary in PAMedian $46,890 · Employment 15,800
- Billing and Posting Clerks Salary in NJMedian $51,750 · Employment 14,910
- Billing and Posting Clerks Salary in Chicago, ILMedian $49,960 · Employment 13,610
- Billing and Posting Clerks Salary in MIMedian $46,890 · Employment 12,550
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Career and skills data: O*NET 31.0 (onetcenter.org). Salary and employment data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS, 2025 (bls.gov/oes). Figures are published survey estimates, not real-time market data.