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File Clerks

SOC 43-4071

Organize, store, and retrieve an organization's records.

The job
Median pay
$44k
$36k to $52k typical range
Outlook, 2025 to 2035
Declining
-16% projected
Openings a year
6k
BLS projection
Typical education
High school
Our model
AI displacement risk
High
How much of this job AI may do instead of the person
Works with AI
6/100
AI alongside the person rather than instead of them
AI exposure
57th pct
More exposed than 57% of occupations · modeled estimate · 80th pct in Microsoft's data
Future-proof
28/100

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Pay and jobs by state

BLS OEWS May 2025, 51 states. Sorted by jobs; per 1,000 is jobs per thousand workers in the state; vs national compares that rate with the country's. A tilde marks a figure estimated from the parent occupation group where BLS publishes none.

StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
Texas11,3400.81.7×$39k
California9,5200.51.1×$49k
Florida6,1800.61.3×$42k
Illinois3,7800.61.3×$50k
Pennsylvania2,8300.51.0×$43k
New York2,5900.30.6×$44k
Georgia2,5700.51.1×$41k
New Jersey2,3100.51.1×$44k
Arizona2,1900.71.4×$44k
Virginia2,1100.51.1×$40k
All 51 states
StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
Tennessee2,0600.61.3×$43k
North Carolina1,9700.40.8×$43k
Michigan1,8200.40.9×$44k
Ohio1,8200.30.7×$41k
Wisconsin1,5500.51.1×$45k
Oklahoma1,4400.81.8×$39k
Indiana1,4300.40.9×$40k
South Carolina1,2100.51.1×$39k
Colorado1,1300.40.8×$46k
Nevada1,1100.71.5×$44k
Missouri1,0000.30.7×$38k
Oregon9700.51.0×$51k
Maryland8800.30.7×$45k
Minnesota7600.30.6×$47k
Nebraska7500.71.6×$41k
Louisiana6800.40.7×$32k
Mississippi6060.51.1×$31k~
Massachusetts6000.20.3×$48k
Kansas5700.40.8×$42k
Idaho5400.61.3×$46k
Washington5200.10.3×$46k
Utah5100.30.6×$41k
Iowa4300.30.6×$47k
Montana4100.81.7×$38k
Connecticut3500.20.4×$45k
New Mexico3400.40.8×$38k
Arkansas3100.20.5×$38k
New Hampshire3000.40.9×$44k
West Virginia2600.40.8×$32k
Delaware2520.51.1×$40k~
Kentucky2500.10.3×$39k
Rhode Island2260.50.9×$36k~
Washington DC2230.30.7×$56k~
South Dakota2190.51.0×$37k~
Maine2100.30.7×$44k
Alaska1500.51.0×$50k
Alabama1100.10.1×$38k
Hawaii1000.20.3×$51k
Vermont700.20.5×$48k
Wyoming700.20.5×$42k~
North Dakota600.10.3×$43k

Top metro areas

  1. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA3,930 jobs · $48k median
  2. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ3,260 jobs · $45k median
  3. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX3,170 jobs · $43k median
  4. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN2,640 jobs · $58k median
  5. Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX2,580 jobs · $41k median
  6. Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL1,920 jobs · $46k median
  7. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV1,700 jobs · $43k median
  8. Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA1,640 jobs · $47k median

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Pay and outlook from BLS (OEWS 2025, Employment Projections 2025-2035). Skills and work activities from O*NET 30.3. AI exposure and future-proof scores are modeled estimates. How these numbers are made.