Office Clerks, General salary in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

The figures

The median Office Clerks, General in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area earns $50,710 a year ($24.38 an hour), according to the BLS OEWS May 2025 estimates (full citation in Sources). The middle half of Office Clerks, General in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH earn between $43,710 and $60,830 a year. At the ends of the distribution, the lowest-paid 10 percent earn $36,030 or less and the top 10 percent earn $71,770 or more. BLS estimates 34,480 Office Clerks, General jobs in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH area — 12.751 of every 1,000 jobs in the area, a location quotient of 0.8 (below the national concentration). That is 1.4% of all Office Clerks, General employment in the United States (2,464,940 jobs nationally). By employment, Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH is the #14 largest of the 25 covered metro areas for Office Clerks, General. In aggregate, Office Clerks, General in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH earn about $1.82 billion a year (BLS employment multiplied by the mean wage). At the mean wage, the engine's take-home is $42,345.06 a year, so the aggregate take-home of Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Office Clerks, General is about $1.46 billion. BLS reports a relative standard error of 3.6% for this employment estimate. Ranked by median pay, Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH stands #5 of the 25 metro areas covered on this site for Office Clerks, General. By employment, Office Clerks, General is the #13 largest of the 30 covered occupations in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. Placed against the national distribution for Office Clerks, General, the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH median of $50,710 falls between the national median ($45,010) and the national 75th percentile ($54,300). Across all occupations, the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH median is $66,620 a year — Office Clerks, General pay is 23.9% below the area's overall median.

Wages in detail

What the wage distribution says

The top 10 percent of Office Clerks, General in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH earn 2.0 times what the bottom 10 percent earn ($71,770 against $36,030). The middle half spans $17,120 — from $43,710 to $60,830. Hourly, the 90th percentile ($34.51) is 1.99 times the 10th ($17.32). In the upper half of the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH distribution, the 75th percentile wage of $60,830 takes home $48,335.44 and the 90th percentile wage of $71,770 takes home $56,051.70 — $7,716.26 more net for $10,940 more gross. Against the median take-home of $40,710.14, the top decile keeps 1.38 times as much. The mean wage of $52,880 sits 4.3% above the median: higher-paid Office Clerks, General pull the average up in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. Among the 30 covered occupations in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH, Office Clerks, General ranks #16 by median pay. In the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH wage ladder of covered occupations, Office Clerks, General sits between First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers at $58,850 and Customer Service Representatives at $49,920. Office Clerks, General accounts for 1.3% of all employment in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area. The average covered metro employs 40,408 Office Clerks, General; Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH employs 0.9 times that.

Take-home pay on the median wage in Massachusetts

Single filer, no dependents, no pre-tax contributions, paid biweekly, a full year of W-2 wages in Massachusetts; city and local taxes are not included:

At the median, $40,710.14 of the $50,710 gross is kept ($1,565.77 per paycheck) — a deduction rate of 19.72%. The deduction rate moves with pay: 17.71% at the 10th percentile, 18.93% at the 25th percentile, 20.54% at the 75th percentile, 21.90% at the 90th percentile. Between the 25th and 75th percentile wages, annual take-home rises by $12,899.94 on a gross rise of $17,120.

The same engine at the other published points of the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH wage distribution:

Across the published distribution, take-home pay runs from $29,648.56 a year at the 10th percentile to $56,051.70 at the 90th — a spread of $26,403.14 of net pay inside one occupation and one metro area.

For scale: across all occupations, the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH median wage of $66,620 takes home $52,686.34 a year ($2,026.40 per paycheck, deduction rate 20.92%). The Office Clerks, General median take-home of $40,710.14 sits $11,976.20 (below that area-wide figure.

Multi-state metro area. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH also covers parts of New Hampshire. The take-home estimate above uses Massachusetts rules — the metro area's primary state. If the job is based in another part of the metro area, the state tax changes: see the New Hampshire paycheck calculator.

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Take-home pay for $50,710 in Massachusetts

Against the national median

Nationally, the median Office Clerks, General earns $45,010 a year ($21.64 an hour). The Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH median of $50,710 is $5,700 (12.7%) above the national median.

The means rank the area the same way: $52,880 a year in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH against $46,420 nationally, a gap of $6,460 (13.9%).

Set against the whole local market, the Office Clerks, General 90th percentile of $71,770 is 43% of the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH all-occupations 90th percentile ($168,090), and its 10th percentile of $36,030 is 98% of the area-wide 10th ($36,760).

Sources and method

Wage data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates (released May 15, 2026), retrieved October 27, 2026 — bls.gov/oes. OEWS figures are survey estimates for May 2025, not job offers. Take-home pay is computed by this site's paycheck engine with 2026 federal and state rules; the method, and what the engine does not model, is documented in the paycheck methodology guide. Estimates only — not tax advice.