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Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks

SOC 43-3031 · 2024-2034

Compute, classify, and record numerical data to keep financial records complete. Perform any combination of routine calculating, posting, and verifying duties to obtain primary financial data for use in maintaining accounting records. May also check the accuracy of figures, calculations, and postings pertaining to business transactions recorded by other workers.

How the U.S. Department of Labor describes this work. Published in English only.

Shrinking -4.1%
California projects this job will shrink over the next ten years. Fewer openings may mean a harder search.

What California expects of this job

Typical pay in California
$60,632per year
Projected openings
178,570
Projected change
-4.1%
Usually needs
Some college, no degree

Bright Outlook — a U.S. Department of Labor designation
Numerous Job Openings

The Department's own designation, made from its national projections. It is not this project's assessment and it is not California's: every other figure on this page comes from California's projection, which can point the other way and for some occupations does.

Skills this work uses most

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, rates how important each of these is to this work, and they are listed in that order, most important first. The ratings themselves are not shown, because the data carries the number without the scale it was measured on. The names are as published, in English.

  1. Mathematics
  2. Active Listening
  3. Critical Thinking
  4. Reading Comprehension
  5. Writing
  6. Speaking

Pay by region

RegionTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openings
San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties)$66,7968,430
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties)$65,7268,570
Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties)$65,3839,980
San Rafael MD (Marin County)$65,0331,150
Napa MSA (Napa County)$62,028860
Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County)$61,5171,250
Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County)$61,2412,500
Vallejo MSA (Solano County)$60,7201,410
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County)$59,9132,300
Salinas MSA (Monterey County)$59,6681,990
San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County)$58,8201,290
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties)$58,5149,800
Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County)$58,11718,950
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County)$57,95214,720
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County)$57,89046,520
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County)$57,6153,850
Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County)$56,6142,610
Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties)$54,417560
Redding MSA (Shasta County)$54,203760
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties)$53,05915,450
North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties)$52,6701,670
North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties)$52,4351,330
Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County)$52,3953,100
Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties)$51,8635,230
Hanford-Corcoran MSA (Kings County)$51,159450
Visalia MSA (Tulare County)$51,1281,660
Merced MSA (Merced County)$50,924780
Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County)$50,9242,130
Chico MSA (Butte County)$50,893790
Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties)$49,912780
El Centro MSA (Imperial County)$47,736650

What the pay actually ranges across

The lowest-paid tenth earn under
$42,584
A quarter earn under
$49,750
Half earn under
$60,632
Three quarters earn under
$72,271
The highest-paid tenth earn over
$83,930

A median is one point. These are the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2026 figures for California, and they say how far apart the people doing this job actually are. Read them as the spread across everyone already in the work — not as a starting wage and not as a promise about where anyone lands.

Similar work

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, names these as occupations involving work similar to this one — its own reading of the job, not a grouping by code. They keep O*NET's order, and only those California publishes a projection for are shown.

OccupationTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openingsProjected change
Billing and Posting Clerks$57,59144,130+4.8%
Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks$66,88617,950-13.8%
Brokerage Clerks$79,8054,850-8.5%
Office Clerks, General$49,607356,700-4.5%
Tellers$48,01019,760-18.1%
Loan Interviewers and Clerks$58,65610,410-6%

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