Correspondence Clerks build judgment and decision making, 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 (94%).
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 | 94% | $45,010 | −4% | None |
| 2 | Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive | 94% | $47,540 | +2% | None |
| 3 | Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks | 93% | $49,230 | +5% | None |
| 4 | Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks | 91% | $50,670 | +8% | Certificate or associate |
| 5 | Billing and Posting Clerks | 89% | $48,500 | +4% | None |
| 6 | Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants | 89% | $55,570 | +19% | Certificate or associate |
| 7 | Bill and Account Collectors | 88% | $47,030 | 0% | None |
| 8 | Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants | 85% | $76,590 | +64% | Certificate or associate |
| 9 | Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers | 84% | $58,650 | +25% | None |
| 10 | Procurement Clerks | 83% | $50,580 | +8% | None |
Compared with Correspondence Clerks, median $46,800. 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 correspondence clerks (O*NET importance, scale 1–5).
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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.
94% skill match · $45,010 · −4% pay
Operations Monitoring · Troubleshooting · Instructing
94% skill match · $47,540 · +2% pay
Operations Analysis · Service Orientation · Time Management
93% skill match · $49,230 · +5% pay
Operations Monitoring · Systems Analysis · Systems Evaluation
If you want to stay close to what you do now, these roles are the nearest.
The closest matches are Office Clerks, General (94% skill match, median $45,010), Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive (94% skill match, median $47,540) and Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks (93% skill match, median $49,230), based on O*NET 31.0 data and BLS May 2025 pay.
Among the 25 matches, 17 pay more than correspondence clerks at the median. The biggest increases: Administrative Services Managers (+144%, $114,130), Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants (+64%, $76,590) and Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel (+50%, $69,990).
16 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.