The Average Salary of a Court Clerk
Court clerks provide administrative support to courts of law, performing duties such as preparing the docket of cases to be called and obtaining information for judges and other court officials.
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Legal Services Industry
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Court, municipal and license clerks employed in the legal services industry made average, or mean, wages of $23.88 per hour or $49,670 per year in May 2009, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Salaries ranged from $28,420 per year for the lowest-paid 10 percent to $76,480 or more for the highest-earning 10 percent.
State And Local Government
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The average salary state governments paid to court, municipal and license clerks was $19.76 per hour or $41,100 per year, the May 2009 figures from the BLS show. The best-paid 10th of workers in this occupation earned $61,570 or more per year, while the most poorly-paid 10 percent had incomes of $26,010 or lower. The average salary of a court, municipal or license clerk employed by a local government was $34,000 per year.
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Salaries by Experience
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Court clerks with one year of experience or less earned hourly wages of $9.78 to $15, according to a survey of 165 court clerks by PayScale.com in October 2010. Those with 20 years or more of experience made $15.06 to $22.12 per hour, the survey figures showed.
Top-Paying States
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New York was the only American state or territory with an annual average salary of more than $50,000 for court, municipal and license clerks, at $51,160, BLS figures show. The District of Columbia, Connecticut, California and Nevada had average annual salaries between $43,000 and $47,000.
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