Compared with the local labor market
Accounting Clerk Trainee 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 Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks — about 53,910 people — is $58,590. City Employees Retirement System pays a median base salary of $61,964 for this role, 6% above that figure — about the 59th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where City Employees Retirement System sits in the local pay range
$40,660
$48,030
$58,590
$67,710
$79,500
City Employees Retirement System median · $61,964
The bar is the range of annual wages for Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks 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 City Employees Retirement System’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks — about 1,373,680 people — is $50,670. City Employees Retirement System’s median base salary is 22% above that national figure, about the 76th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
$36,000
$43,520
$50,670
$61,470
$74,550
City Employees Retirement System median · $61,964
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 City Employees Retirement System is $77,610, 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.