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Accounting Clerk

Bookkeepers and accounting clerks typically handle accounting tasks in small businesses, and accountants and controllers generally perform accounting functions in large organizations.

Cost accounting and management accounting professionals help management make informed financial decisions.

Bookkeepers and accounting clerks perform basic accounting tasks, while certified accountants manage more complex issues.

Accounting professionals create financial statements and regulate cash flow for companies, and professionals in the field follow financial accounting processes to generate monthly and quarterly reports.

What Does an Accounting Clerk Do? Accounting clerks classify, compute, and record numerical data to accurately complete financial records and conduct routine calculations to verify data figures.

These professionals often use accounting software like Intuit QuickBooks, fund accounting software, and Sage 50 Accounting tax software.

Accounting clerks can work in a variety of industries, but the largest number of accounting clerks work in the professional, scientific, and technical services industry.

How much is Accounting Clerk salary average? 

Here is the list of Accounting Clerk salaries in every state of the United States.

Source: US BLS (2019). 

State	average Accounting Clerk salary (US $)
District of Columbia	55,970
Massachusetts	49,040
Connecticut	48,950
Alaska	48,460
California	48,460
New Jersey	47,300
New York	47,220
Washington	46,700
Maryland	46,420
Rhode Island	46,110
Minnesota	44,820
Illinois	43,880
Colorado	43,750
Delaware	43,660
Virginia	43,400
Oregon	43,240
Hawaii	42,900
Vermont	42,890
Arizona	42,510
New Hampshire	42,370
Texas	41,920
Tennessee	41,400
Georgia	41,360
Florida	41,220
Pennsylvania	40,950
Ohio	40,530
Utah	40,150
Nevada	40,110
Iowa	40,100
North Carolina	40,040
Michigan	39,970
Missouri	39,890
Maine	39,810
Wisconsin	39,780
Wyoming	39,470
Indiana	39,400
Oklahoma	39,360
Idaho	38,930
Nebraska	38,840
Kentucky	38,580
New Mexico	38,560
North Dakota	38,560
Mississippi	38,220
Louisiana	38,060
Alabama	37,640
South Carolina	37,490
Arkansas	36,780
Kansas	36,580
Montana	36,520
West Virginia	35,300
South Dakota	34,650
Puerto Rico	23,670