City of Buffalo / Community Svs - Senior Service / Clerk
Job-title file
Provide administrative support — record-keeping, scheduling, correspondence, and customer service.
1 employees hold this title in Community Svs - Senior Service. Median total compensation for the role is $46,121, above the department median of $45,017.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY area, the median wage for Office Clerks, General — about 6,230 people — is $46,040. Community Svs - Senior Service pays a median base salary of $34,481 for this role, 25% below that figure — about the 16th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Office Clerks, General across every employer in the Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Community Svs - Senior Service’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Office Clerks, General — about 2,464,940 people — is $45,010. Community Svs - Senior Service’s median base salary is 23% below that national figure, about the 20th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY range relative to the national one.
Median total compensation for this role at Community Svs - Senior Service is $46,121, 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
Clerk is held in 4 City of Buffalo departments. In Community Svs - Senior Service, the median of $46,121 ranks #1 of 4.
Median total compensation for the Clerk role in other City of Buffalodepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 21 jurisdictions. In City of Buffalo, the median of $39,844 ranks #9 of 21. See Clerk across all of City of Buffalo →
Median total compensation for comparable Clerkroles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.
Record list
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Clerk/Community Svs - Senior Service
Source-specific fields
At Community Svs - Senior Service, Patricia Cassell serves as a Clerk within Health & Welfare. Their 2026 pay totaled $46,121.