City of Memphis / Fire Services / Accounting Clerk
Job-title file
Maintain financial records, prepare budgets and reports, and ensure compliance with fiscal rules.
3 employees hold this title in Fire Services. Median total compensation for the role is $42,024, below the department median of $79,019.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Memphis, TN-MS-AR area, the median wage for Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks — about 6,320 people — is $48,400. Fire Services pays a median base salary of $42,024 for this role, 13% below that figure — about the 28th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks across every employer in the Memphis, TN-MS-AR area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Fire Services’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. Fire Services’s median base salary is 17% below that national figure, about the 22nd 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 Memphis, TN-MS-AR range relative to the national one.
Median total compensation for this role at Fire Services is $42,024, 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
Accounting Clerk is held in 2 City of Memphis departments. In Fire Services, the median of $42,024 ranks #1 of 2.
Median total compensation for the Accounting Clerk role in other City of Memphisdepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 4 jurisdictions. See Accounting Clerk across all of City of Memphis →
Median total compensation for comparable Accounting 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.
Record list
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Accounting Clerk/Fire Services
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Patricia Alston holds the role of Accounting Clerk at Fire Services. In 2025, their total compensation was $42,024.
Accounting Clerk/Fire Services
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Lotosha Baldwin holds the role of Accounting Clerk at Fire Services. In 2025, their total compensation was $42,024.
Accounting Clerk/Fire Services
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At Fire Services, Deborah Claxton serves as a Accounting Clerk. Their 2025 pay totaled $35,236.