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title: "New Accounts Clerk"
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# New Accounts Clerk

**Category:** Office and Administrative Support · **SOC code:** 43-4141 · **O\*NET-SOC code:** 43-4141.00

Interview persons desiring to open accounts in financial institutions. Explain account services available to prospective customers and assist them in preparing applications.

Also advertised as: Banking Services Representative; Customer Service Specialist; Financial Service Representative; Financial Services Representative; Member Service Representative; New Accounts Clerk; New Accounts Representative; Personal Banker.

## At a glance

- **Median annual wage:** $47,670 (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
- **Median hourly wage:** $22.92/hr
- **Wage range (10th–90th percentile):** $38,180 to $60,910, with the middle half between $43,920 and $55,100
- **Total US employment:** 36,860
- **Typical entry education:** High school
- **Preparation required:** Some preparation — O\*NET rates this "Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed"
- **Projected growth:** -6.5% over 2025–2035 (BLS EP, 2025–2035)
- **Annual job openings:** 2,300 openings a year
- **AI-resilience score:** 35/100 — a NueCareer heuristic over O\*NET work activities and context, not a BLS or O\*NET figure

## Pay

National wage distribution, BLS OEWS, May 2025, across 36,860 US jobs.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $38,180 |
| 25th | $43,920 |
| 50th (median) | $47,670 |
| 75th | $55,100 |
| 90th | $60,910 |
| Mean (average) | $49,370 |

### Pay by state

The 15 highest-paying states, by median annual wage. The cost-of-living-adjusted column divides the state median by that state's BEA Regional Price Parity, so the columns answer different questions: the first is what the job pays there, the second is what that pay buys there.

| State | Median annual wage | Cost-of-living adjusted | Employment |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DC | $60,990 | $55,495 | Not published by BLS |
| ND | $57,970 | $65,165 | 140 |
| NY | $57,950 | $53,697 | 4,800 |
| NJ | $57,240 | $52,608 | 230 |
| CT | $57,080 | $55,091 | 420 |
| WA | $52,830 | $49,368 | 310 |
| CA | $52,100 | $47,056 | 950 |
| NM | $51,380 | $55,719 | 150 |
| MO | $50,270 | $55,353 | 590 |
| TN | $49,770 | $54,174 | 420 |
| NC | $49,480 | $52,456 | 1,910 |
| IL | $49,040 | $49,061 | 2,020 |
| MN | $48,920 | $49,604 | 1,160 |
| CO | $48,870 | $47,423 | 390 |
| OR | $48,330 | $46,758 | 1,410 |

31 more states with published wage data are omitted here. The full table for all 46 states is at https://nuecareer.com/careers/new-accounts-clerk/salary-by-state, or as JSON at https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/new-accounts-clerk.

## Outlook

BLS projects employment to move from 37,900 in the 2025–2035 base year to 35,500 by the end of the cycle — a loss of 2,500 jobs, or -6.5%. Declining: -6.5% against 3.5% projected for all occupations over the same cycle. About 2,300 openings a year are expected on average, counting openings from growth as well as from workers leaving the occupation permanently. Source: BLS EP, 2025–2035.

## How to get in

- **Typical entry education:** High school diploma or equivalent (BLS Employment Projections).
- **Preparation level:** Some preparation — O\*NET's preparation band for this occupation is "Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed".
- **Related work experience typically required:** None.
- **Typical on-the-job training:** Moderate-term on-the-job training.

### Education people in this job actually hold

O\*NET surveys incumbents, so this distribution describes who is in the job today and can differ from the BLS entry requirement above.

| Education level | Share of workers |
| --- | --- |
| High School Diploma or the equivalent (such as a GED) | 45.6% |
| Some College Courses | 28.2% |
| Post-Secondary Certificate | 15.5% |
| Associate's Degree or other 2-year degree | 10.7% |

## What the work involves

- Refer customers to appropriate bank personnel to meet their financial needs.
- Inform customers of procedures for applying for services, such as ATM cards, direct deposit of checks, and certificates of deposit.
- Interview customers to obtain information needed for opening accounts or renting safe-deposit boxes.
- Answer customers' questions and explain available services, such as deposit accounts, bonds, and securities.
- Compile information about new accounts, enter account information into computers, and file related forms or other documents.
- Investigate and correct errors upon customers' request, according to customer and bank records.
- Collect and record customer deposits and fees and issue receipts, using computers.
- Perform teller duties as required.

## Skills and knowledge

### Essential skills

- Active Listening — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speaking — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Reading Comprehension — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Critical Thinking — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Monitoring — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Writing — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Mathematics — importance 2.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Learning — importance 2.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Transferable skills

These are the skills that carry into other occupations, and they drive the related-occupation and career-change rankings on this site.

- Service Orientation — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Social Perceptiveness — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Coordination — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Persuasion — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Judgment and Decision Making — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Time Management — importance 2.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Complex Problem Solving — importance 2.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Negotiation — importance 2.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Knowledge areas

- Customer and Personal Service — importance 4.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Sales and Marketing — importance 4.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Administrative — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- English Language — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Computers and Electronics — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Mathematics — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Abilities

- Oral Comprehension — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Expression — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Written Comprehension — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Near Vision — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speech Recognition — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speech Clarity — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

## Who it suits

O\*NET rates every occupation on the six Holland (RIASEC) interest areas, on a 1–7 scale. This occupation's strongest areas are Conventional (C), Enterprising (E), Social (S).

| Interest area | Score (1–7) |
| --- | --- |
| C — Conventional | 6.86 |
| E — Enterprising | 4.65 |
| S — Social | 3.66 |
| I — Investigative | 1.91 |
| R — Realistic | 1.37 |
| A — Artistic | 1.00 |

### Personality fit

These scores are **derived by NueCareer**, not published by any government agency: they are cosine similarities between a personality type's trait profile and this occupation's O\*NET interest and work-style ratings, expressed 0–100. Treat them as a starting point for exploration, not as evidence that a type belongs in a job.

| Type | Fit score (0–100) |
| --- | --- |
| ESFJ | 83.2 |
| ESTJ | 80.2 |
| ISFJ | 74.4 |
| ISTJ | 65.1 |
| ENFJ | 61.7 |

Best-fitting types: ESFJ, ESTJ.

## Related occupations

O\*NET's primary related occupations, in its own ranked order.

- [Teller](https://nuecareer.com/careers/teller) — median $43,030
- [Brokerage Clerk](https://nuecareer.com/careers/brokerage-clerk) — median $65,750
- [Sales Representative of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel](https://nuecareer.com/careers/sales-representative-of-services) — median $69,990
- [Customer Service Representative](https://nuecareer.com/careers/customer-service-representative) — median $44,770
- [Security, Commodity, and Financial Services Sales Agent](https://nuecareer.com/careers/security-commodity-and-financial-services-sales-agent) — median $78,660
- [Credit Authorizer, Checker, and Clerk](https://nuecareer.com/careers/credit-authorizer-checker-and-clerk) — median $50,080
- [Loan Officer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/loan-officer) — median $76,690
- [Bill and Account Collector](https://nuecareer.com/careers/bill-and-account-collector) — median $47,030
- [Loan Interviewer and Clerk](https://nuecareer.com/careers/loan-interviewer-and-clerk) — median $50,020
- [Financial Advisor](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-advisor) — median $105,070

## Sources

- **O\*NET** — O\*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS OEWS** — BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS EP** — BLS Employment Projections, Table 1.2, 2025–2035. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **BLS OOH** — BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2025–2035 edition. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/
- **BEA RPP** — BEA Regional Price Parities by State, 2024. https://www.bea.gov/data/prices-inflation/regional-price-parities-state-and-metro-area

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