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Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks
Compute, classify, and record numerical data to keep financial records complete. Perform any combination of routine calculating, posting, and verifying duties to obtain primary financial data for use in maintaining accounting records. May also check the accuracy of figures, calculations, and postings pertaining to business transactions recorded by other workers.
What a bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerk does
Become a bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerk
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerk
- Using math to solve problems.
- Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
- Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Average hourly rate is $25 per hour with an average salary of $52,300 per year.
- Half of workers earn between $22 and $28 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $44,700 and $59,200 per year.
Bookkeeping, Accounting, And Auditing Clerk job outlook
- There are 35,467 workers in this occupation in Washington.
- There are 6,437 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.