Office Clerks, General salary in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA

The figures

The median Office Clerks, General in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro area earns $50,640 a year ($24.35 an hour), according to the BLS OEWS May 2025 estimates (full citation in Sources). The middle half of Office Clerks, General in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA earn between $43,650 and $60,100 a year. At the ends of the distribution, the lowest-paid 10 percent earn $37,440 or less and the top 10 percent earn $70,310 or more. BLS estimates 15,920 Office Clerks, General jobs in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA area — 13.174 of every 1,000 jobs in the area, a location quotient of 0.83 (below the national concentration). That is 0.6% of all Office Clerks, General employment in the United States (2,464,940 jobs nationally). By employment, Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA is the #24 largest of the 25 covered metro areas for Office Clerks, General. In aggregate, Office Clerks, General in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA earn about $0.84 billion a year (BLS employment multiplied by the mean wage). At the mean wage, the engine's take-home is $41,148.54 a year, so the aggregate take-home of Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA Office Clerks, General is about $0.66 billion. BLS reports a relative standard error of 4.2% for this employment estimate. Ranked by median pay, Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA stands #6 of the 25 metro areas covered on this site for Office Clerks, General. By employment, Office Clerks, General is the #10 largest of the 30 covered occupations in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA. Placed against the national distribution for Office Clerks, General, the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA median of $50,640 falls between the national median ($45,010) and the national 75th percentile ($54,300). Across all occupations, the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA median is $60,690 a year — Office Clerks, General pay is 16.6% below the area's overall median.

Wages in detail

What the wage distribution says

The top 10 percent of Office Clerks, General in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA earn 1.9 times what the bottom 10 percent earn ($70,310 against $37,440). The middle half spans $16,450 — from $43,650 to $60,100. Hourly, the 90th percentile ($33.80) is 1.88 times the 10th ($18.00). In the upper half of the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA distribution, the 75th percentile wage of $60,100 takes home $46,488.22 and the 90th percentile wage of $70,310 takes home $53,558.46 — $7,070.24 more net for $10,210 more gross. Against the median take-home of $39,615.74, the top decile keeps 1.35 times as much. The mean wage of $52,750 sits 4.2% above the median: higher-paid Office Clerks, General pull the average up in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA. Among the 30 covered occupations in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA, Office Clerks, General ranks #17 by median pay. In the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA wage ladder of covered occupations, Office Clerks, General sits between Construction Laborers at $54,240 and Nursing Assistants at $50,350. Office Clerks, General accounts for 1.3% of all employment in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro area. The average covered metro employs 40,408 Office Clerks, General; Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA employs 0.4 times that.

Take-home pay on the median wage in Oregon

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

At the median, $39,615.74 of the $50,640 gross is kept ($1,523.68 per paycheck) — a deduction rate of 21.77%. The deduction rate moves with pay: 19.80% at the 10th percentile, 20.88% at the 25th percentile, 22.65% at the 75th percentile, 23.83% at the 90th percentile. Between the 25th and 75th percentile wages, annual take-home rises by $11,950.70 on a gross rise of $16,450.

The same engine at the other published points of the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA wage distribution:

Across the published distribution, take-home pay runs from $30,026.10 a year at the 10th percentile to $53,558.46 at the 90th — a spread of $23,532.36 of net pay inside one occupation and one metro area.

For scale: across all occupations, the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA median wage of $60,690 takes home $46,917.28 a year ($1,804.51 per paycheck, deduction rate 22.69%). The Office Clerks, General median take-home of $39,615.74 sits $7,301.54 (below that area-wide figure.

Multi-state metro area. Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA also covers parts of Washington. The take-home estimate above uses Oregon 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 Washington paycheck calculator.

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Take-home pay for $50,640 in Oregon

Against the national median

Nationally, the median Office Clerks, General earns $45,010 a year ($21.64 an hour). The Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA median of $50,640 is $5,630 (12.5%) above the national median.

The means rank the area the same way: $52,750 a year in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA against $46,420 nationally, a gap of $6,330 (13.6%).

Set against the whole local market, the Office Clerks, General 90th percentile of $70,310 is 51% of the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA all-occupations 90th percentile ($136,920), and its 10th percentile of $37,440 is 101% of the area-wide 10th ($37,200).

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.