Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks in South Carolina earn a median of $47,940 a year (5% below the U.S. median of $50,670), based on about 19,980 jobs. Pay for the same job differs a lot by employer, experience, industry and city within South Carolina. These are wages of employees in the occupation, not a forecast for any individual.
Median annual pay
$47,940
5% below the U.S. median of $50,670
Average annual pay
$49,980
Mean wage
Pay range
$33,370–$68,870
10th to 90th percentile
Jobs in the state
19,980
Employees, May 2025
Median hourly pay
$23.05
Before taxes
The state's price level is 93.7 (U.S. average = 100), so a median of $47,940 here equals roughly $51,163 after adjusting for the state's price level.
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Fields of study linked to this career by the federal CIP-to-SOC crosswalk (U.S. Department of Education, NCES, with the Bureau of Labor Statistics; a classification crosswalk, and many workers entered by other routes): Accounting and Related Services
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025, state estimates (employees only; self-employed workers are not included); price-level adjustment uses the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis Regional Price Parities (where 100 is the U.S. average; MajorPays' calculation). Wages are for an occupation in a state as a whole and vary widely by employer, experience, industry and place within the state. MajorPays selected and reorganized these figures; neither agency has approved or endorsed this presentation. See Data sources for each dataset's terms.