Billing and Posting Clerks build time management, social perceptiveness and service orientation skills that carry over to other work. Below are 25 careers ranked by how closely their skills match, with pay from BLS May 2025. The closest match is Office Clerks, General (93%).
Updated October 2026 · Data: O*NET 31.0 and BLS OEWS May 2025 · How we match careers
Sorted by skill match.
| # | Career | Skill match | Median pay | Pay change | Extra education |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Office Clerks, General | 93% | $45,010 | −7% | None |
| 2 | Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks | 91% | $49,230 | +2% | None |
| 3 | Credit Authorizers, Checkers, and Clerks | 88% | $50,080 | +3% | None |
| 4 | File Clerks | 87% | $43,600 | −10% | None |
| 5 | Correspondence Clerks | 86% | $46,800 | −4% | None |
| 6 | Customer Service Representatives | 85% | $44,770 | −8% | None |
| 7 | Order Clerks | 84% | $46,170 | −5% | None |
| 8 | Postal Service Clerks | 82% | $62,130 | +28% | None |
| 9 | Brokerage Clerks | 82% | $65,750 | +36% | Certificate or associate |
| 10 | Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive | 81% | $47,540 | −2% | None |
Compared with Billing and Posting Clerks, median $48,500. Skill match is our estimate (0–99) from O*NET 31.0 skills, knowledge, work activities and interests, adjusted for preparation and big pay drops. Pay: BLS OEWS May 2025, national median.
How important each skill is in work as billing and posting clerks (O*NET importance, scale 1–5).
The gaps that show up most often across your top 10 matches.
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A concrete first step, the skills to add, and the hard parts of each job, from O*NET 31.0 education, training and work context data.
93% skill match · $45,010 · −7% pay
Instructing · Persuasion · Negotiation
91% skill match · $49,230 · +2% pay
Negotiation · Persuasion · Systems Evaluation
88% skill match · $50,080 · +3% pay
Instructing · Persuasion · Management of Personnel Resources
If you want to stay close to what you do now, these roles are the nearest.
The closest matches are Office Clerks, General (93% skill match, median $45,010), Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks (91% skill match, median $49,230) and Credit Authorizers, Checkers, and Clerks (88% skill match, median $50,080), based on O*NET 31.0 data and BLS May 2025 pay.
Among the 25 matches, 14 pay more than billing and posting clerks at the median. The biggest increases: Brokerage Clerks (+36%, $65,750), First-Line Supervisors of Gambling Services Workers (+32%, $63,820) and Tax Examiners and Collectors, and Revenue Agents (+29%, $62,370).
19 of the 25 matches usually need no more education than you have now, based on O*NET Job Zones.
We compare the importance of skills, knowledge, work activities and interests in O*NET 31.0 for your job and every other career, then adjust for extra preparation and big pay drops. The full method is on our Methodology page.