Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks salary in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ

The figures

The median Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks in the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metro area earns $51,980 a year ($24.99 an hour), according to the BLS OEWS May 2025 estimates (full citation in Sources). The middle half of Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ earn between $46,580 and $60,320 a year. At the ends of the distribution, the lowest-paid 10 percent earn $39,250 or less and the top 10 percent earn $71,240 or more. BLS estimates 16,280 Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks jobs in the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ area — 6.852 of every 1,000 jobs in the area, a location quotient of 0.78 (below the national concentration). That is 1.2% of all Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks employment in the United States (1,373,680 jobs nationally). By employment, Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ is the #14 largest of the 25 covered metro areas for Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks. In aggregate, Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ earn about $0.89 billion a year (BLS employment multiplied by the mean wage). At the mean wage, the engine's take-home is $44,917.04 a year, so the aggregate take-home of Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks is about $0.73 billion. BLS reports a relative standard error of 7.3% for this employment estimate. Ranked by median pay, Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ stands #15 of the 25 metro areas covered on this site for Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks. By employment, Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks is the #25 largest of the 30 covered occupations in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ. Placed against the national distribution for Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks, the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ median of $51,980 falls between the national median ($50,670) and the national 75th percentile ($61,470). Across all occupations, the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ median is $51,380 a year — Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks pay is 1.2% above the area's overall median.

Wages in detail

What the wage distribution says

The top 10 percent of Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ earn 1.8 times what the bottom 10 percent earn ($71,240 against $39,250). The middle half spans $13,740 — from $46,580 to $60,320. Hourly, the 90th percentile ($34.25) is 1.82 times the 10th ($18.87). In the upper half of the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ distribution, the 75th percentile wage of $60,320 takes home $49,541.70 and the 90th percentile wage of $71,240 takes home $57,568.94 — $8,027.24 more net for $10,920 more gross. Against the median take-home of $43,049.00, the top decile keeps 1.34 times as much. The mean wage of $54,380 sits 4.6% above the median: higher-paid Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks pull the average up in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ. Among the 30 covered occupations in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ, Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks ranks #11 by median pay. In the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ wage ladder of covered occupations, Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks sits between Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers at $59,770 and First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers at $48,990. Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks accounts for 0.7% of all employment in the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metro area. The average covered metro employs 21,599 Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks; Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ employs 0.8 times that.

Take-home pay on the median wage in Arizona

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

At the median, $43,049.00 of the $51,980 gross is kept ($1,655.73 per paycheck) — a deduction rate of 17.18%. The deduction rate moves with pay: 15.57% at the 10th percentile, 16.61% at the 25th percentile, 17.87% at the 75th percentile, 19.19% at the 90th percentile. Between the 25th and 75th percentile wages, annual take-home rises by $10,696.96 on a gross rise of $13,740.

The same engine at the other published points of the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ wage distribution:

Across the published distribution, take-home pay runs from $33,138.44 a year at the 10th percentile to $57,568.94 at the 90th — a spread of $24,430.50 of net pay inside one occupation and one metro area.

For scale: across all occupations, the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ median wage of $51,380 takes home $42,582.12 a year ($1,637.77 per paycheck, deduction rate 17.12%). The Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks median take-home of $43,049.00 sits $466.88 (above that area-wide figure.

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Take-home pay for $51,980 in Arizona

Against the national median

Nationally, the median Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks earns $50,670 a year ($24.36 an hour). The Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ median of $51,980 is $1,310 (2.6%) above the national median.

The means rank the area the same way: $54,380 a year in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ against $53,560 nationally, a gap of $820 (1.5%).

Set against the whole local market, the Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks 90th percentile of $71,240 is 57% of the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ all-occupations 90th percentile ($125,130), and its 10th percentile of $39,250 is 113% of the area-wide 10th ($34,800).

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.