City of Buffalo / Economic Development - Permit& Inspect / Clerk
Job-title file
Provide administrative support — record-keeping, scheduling, correspondence, and customer service.
1 employee holds this title in Economic Development - Permit& Inspect. Median total compensation for the role is $40,034, below the department median of $79,570.
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. Economic Development - Permit& Inspect pays a median base salary of $31,795 for this role, 31% below that figure — below the 10th 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 Economic Development - Permit& Inspect’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. Economic Development - Permit& Inspect’s median base salary is 29% below that national figure, about the 14th 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 Economic Development - Permit& Inspect is $40,034, 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 Economic Development - Permit& Inspect, the median of $40,034 ranks #2 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 Clerk roles 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.
Same department
Record list
Page 1
Clerk/Economic Development - Permit& Inspect
Source-specific fields
Abdulfattah Mohamed is a Clerk at Economic Development - Permit& Inspect within Public Safety. 2026 total compensation came to $40,034.