City and County of San Francisco / City Administrator / Senior Clerk
Job-title file
Senior Clerk
Provide administrative support — record-keeping, scheduling, correspondence, and customer service.
9 employees hold this title in City Administrator. Median total compensation for the role is $107,966, below the department median of $151,053.
- Employees
- 9
- Total payroll
- $983.9K
- Role median
- $107,966
- Agency median
- $151,053
- Comparison
- Below
What the records show
Role pay distribution
Pay distribution for this role
How total compensation varies among the 9 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.
Compared with the local labor market
Senior Clerk pay vs. the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA area
Across all employers in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA area, the median wage for Office Clerks, General — about 37,590 people — is $52,000. City Administrator pays a median base salary of $71,046 for this role, 37% above that figure — about the 81st percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where City Administrator sits in the local pay range
The bar is the range of annual wages for Office Clerks, General across every employer in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows City Administrator’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. City Administrator’s median base salary is 58% above that national figure, above the 90th 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 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA range relative to the national one.
Median total compensation for this role at City Administrator is $107,966, 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
This role across City and County of San Francisco
Senior Clerk is held in 24 City and County of San Francisco departments. In City Administrator, the median of $107,966 ranks #14 of 24.
Highest-paying departments for this role
Median total compensation for the Senior Clerk role in other City and County of San Franciscodepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
Senior Clerk beyond City and County of San Francisco
This role is reported in 5 jurisdictions. In City and County of San Francisco, the median of $118,172 ranks #1 of 5. See Senior Clerk across all of City and County of San Francisco →
Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role
Median total compensation for comparable Senior Clerkroles 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.
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