City of Seattle / Seattle Municipal Courts / Court Clerk
Job-title file
Provide administrative support — record-keeping, scheduling, correspondence, and customer service.
30 employees hold this title in Seattle Municipal Courts. Median total compensation for the role is $91,374, below the department median of $104,270.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 30 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
Across all employers in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area, the median wage for Court, Municipal, and License Clerks — about 1,240 people — is $77,860. Seattle Municipal Courts pays a median base salary of $91,374 for this role, 17% above that figure — above the 90th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Court, Municipal, and License Clerks across every employer in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Seattle Municipal Courts’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Court, Municipal, and License Clerks — about 179,750 people — is $48,700. Seattle Municipal Courts’s median base salary is 88% 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 Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA range relative to the national one.
Median total compensation for this role at Seattle Municipal Courts is $91,374, 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 jurisdictions
This role is reported in 5 jurisdictions. In City of Seattle, the median of $91,374 ranks #1 of 5. See Court Clerk across all of City of Seattle →
Median total compensation for comparable Court 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.
Record list
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Court Clerk/Seattle Municipal Courts
At Seattle Municipal Courts, Danielle Gauthier serves as a Court Clerk. Their 2024 pay totaled $87,880.