Compared with the local labor market
Passport and Visa Examining pay vs. the United States
Across all employers in the United States, the median wage for Information and Record Clerks, All Other — about 134,920 people — is $49,500. Department of State pays a median base salary of $88,281 for this role, 78% above that figure — above the 90th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Department of State sits in the local pay range
$33,870
$40,910
$49,500
$59,970
$71,420
Department of State median · $88,281
The bar is the range of annual wages for Information and Record Clerks, All Other across every employer in the United States, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Department of State’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
Computed over the 1,968 of 1,972 people in this role paid at least $25,000 in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.
Median total compensation for this role at Department of State is $88,390, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.
Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.
Compare departments
This role across U.S. Federal Government (non-Defense)
Passport and Visa Examining is held in 4 U.S. Federal Government (non-Defense) departments. In Department of State, the median of $88,390 ranks #2 of 4.
Highest-paying departments for this role
Median total compensation for the Passport and Visa Examining role in other U.S. Federal Government (non-Defense)departments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.