Compared with the local labor market
Temporary Clerk pay vs. the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ area
Across all employers in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ area, the median wage for Office Clerks, General — about 136,580 people — is $47,670. Board of Election pays a median base salary of $37,046 for this role, 22% below that figure — about the 21st percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Board of Election sits in the local pay range
$34,640
$37,850
$47,670
$58,380
$70,520
Board of Election median · $37,046
The bar is the range of annual wages for Office Clerks, General across every employer in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Board of Election’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. Board of Election’s median base salary is 18% below that national figure, about the 27th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
$30,310
$36,350
$45,010
$54,300
$64,680
Board of Election median · $37,046
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 New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 108 of 172 people in this role paid at least $25,000in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.
Median total compensation for this role at Board of Election is $37,277, 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.