Compared with the local labor market
Intermediate Typist-Clerk pay vs. the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area
Across all employers in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area, the median wage for Office Clerks, General — about 112,270 people — is $48,100. Military & Vets Affairs pays a median base salary of $47,921 for this role, in line with that figure — about the 49th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Military & Vets Affairs sits in the local pay range
$36,120
$39,590
$48,100
$59,270
$70,740
Military & Vets Affairs median · $47,921
The bar is the range of annual wages for Office Clerks, General across every employer in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Military & Vets Affairs’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. Military & Vets Affairs’s median base salary is 6% above that national figure, about the 58th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
$30,310
$36,350
$45,010
$54,300
$64,680
Military & Vets Affairs median · $47,921
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 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA range relative to the national one.
Median total compensation for this role at Military & Vets Affairs is $95,975, 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.