City and County of San Francisco / Human Services Agency / Clerk
Job-title file
Clerk
Provide administrative support — record-keeping, scheduling, correspondence, and customer service.
137 employees hold this title in Human Services Agency. Median total compensation for the role is $114,685, below the department median of $144,495.
- Employees
- 137
- Total payroll
- $13.7M
- Role median
- $114,685
- Agency median
- $144,495
- Comparison
- Below
What the records show
Role pay distribution
Pay distribution for this role
How total compensation varies among the 137 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
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. Human Services Agency pays a median base salary of $77,712 for this role, 49% above that figure — about the 88th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Human Services Agency 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 Human Services Agency’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. Human Services Agency’s median base salary is 73% 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.
Computed over the 125 of 137 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 Human Services Agency is $114,685, 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
Clerk is held in 18 City and County of San Francisco departments. In Human Services Agency, the median of $114,685 ranks #8 of 18.
Highest-paying departments for this role
Median total compensation for the 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
Clerk beyond City and County of San Francisco
This role is reported in 21 jurisdictions. In City and County of San Francisco, the median of $37,984 ranks #11 of 21. See Clerk across all of City and County of San Francisco →
Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role
Median total compensation for comparable 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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