Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks Career, Salary and Skills
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks have a BLS-reported national median annual wage of $50,670 based on the 2025 OEWS dataset, with reported national employment of 1,373,680. Wage data is published for 447 locations.
Occupation description
Compute, classify, and record numerical data to keep financial records complete. Perform any combination of routine calculating, posting, and verifying duties to obtain primary financial data for use in maintaining accounting records. May also check the accuracy of figures, calculations, and postings pertaining to business transactions recorded by other workers.
O*NET code
43-3031.00
Job zone
3
Typical education
High School Diploma or the equivalent (such as a GED)
Experience
Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years
National salary and employment
Median annual
$50,670
Hourly median
$24.36
Employment
1,373,680
Data year
2025
National salary distribution
Top skills
| Skill | Importance | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Mathematics | 3.38 | 3.38 |
| Reading Comprehension | 3.25 | 3.75 |
| Active Listening | 3.25 | 3.75 |
| Critical Thinking | 3.25 | 3.25 |
| Writing | 3.12 | 3.12 |
| Speaking | 3.12 | 3.12 |
| Monitoring | 3.00 | 2.88 |
| Time Management | 3.00 | 2.88 |
| Coordination | 2.88 | 2.75 |
| Service Orientation | 2.88 | 2.88 |
Typical tasks
- Operate computers programmed with accounting software to record, store, and analyze information.
- Check figures, postings, and documents for correct entry, mathematical accuracy, and proper codes.
- Comply with federal, state, and company policies, procedures, and regulations.
- Operate 10-key calculators, typewriters, and copy machines to perform calculations and produce documents.
- Receive, record, and bank cash, checks, and vouchers.
- Code documents according to company procedures.
- Perform financial calculations, such as amounts due, interest charges, balances, discounts, equity, and principal.
- Reconcile or note and report discrepancies found in records.
Technology
- Accounts payable software
- Accounts receivable software
- Accurate NXG
- AcornSystems Corporate Performance Management
- ACS Technologies ACS Financial Suite
- Act!
- Activant Solutions Activant Prophet 21
- AdaptaSoft CyberPay
- Adobe Acrobat
- ADP Pay eXpert
- ADP Workforce Now
- Advanced Management Systems Software for Wineries
- American HealthTech Financial
- AMS Services AMS Sagitta
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks salary by location
Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.
- Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks Salary in CAMedian $59,230 · Employment 151,870
- Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks Salary in TXMedian $48,910 · Employment 122,400
- Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks Salary in FLMedian $49,330 · Employment 88,670
- Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks Salary in NYMedian $58,160 · Employment 84,280
- Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks Salary in New York, NYMedian $60,640 · Employment 77,010
- Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks Salary in Los Angeles, CAMedian $58,590 · Employment 53,910
- Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks Salary in ILMedian $49,560 · Employment 51,470
- Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks Salary in PAMedian $48,440 · Employment 48,920
- Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks Salary in NCMedian $47,930 · Employment 48,760
- Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks Salary in OHMedian $48,810 · Employment 45,140
- Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks Salary in GAMedian $49,350 · Employment 38,700
- Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks Salary in TNMedian $48,180 · Employment 37,680
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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.