Throughline

Operations and sales

Office Clerk, General in the United States

49 postings read · sampled 2026-10-01 · source ats · 26 employers · largest 24% of it

What employers actually ask for

Credentials named in the 49 postings we read, ranked by how many mentioned each one.

None. Across 49 postings, no certification or licence was named often enough to call it a requirement. For this role in this market, employers are hiring on demonstrated work rather than credentials — which means money spent on a certificate here is unlikely to be what gets you the interview.

Lower signal for this role

Credentials that barely appeared in this sample. That is not a claim they are worthless — plenty are valuable for a different job, a different city, or a promotion later. It is a claim that employers here mostly did not ask.

What the official taxonomy says

O*NET surveys people already doing this job. That describes who got hired over a long window, not what employers are asking for now — where it disagrees with the counts above, the counts are the more current answer.

  • High school diploma or equivalent41%
  • Associate’s degree or other 2-year degree36%
  • Some college, no degree15%

Job Zone 1-2: Very Little to Some Preparation Needed. Usually requires a high school diploma or GED, though some occupations may not.

O*NET 43-9061.00 · pulled 2026-10-01 · percentages are of surveyed workers, each rounded separately, so they need not total 100

What it pays

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. A different survey from the postings above, so the two do not share a sample.

$30,310
10th percentile
$45,010
median
$64,680
90th percentile

Who was hiring

Employers with at least one matching posting in this sample.

One Medical · Artech Information System · Integrated Resources Inc · Infojini Inc · Ask IT Consulting · City of New York · Current · vTech Solution · Able Services (ABM) · Affirm · APR Consulting Inc · Axios · Bombas · Boyd Gaming · Collabera · Crestwood Behavioral Health · Curaleaf · Fanatics Commerce · Latitude Inc · Otterbein SeniorLife · Premier Truck Group · PsiQuantum · SingerLewak · Specialty1 Partners · Steel Fabricators LLC · Westgate Resorts

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