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Billing and posting clerks
Compile, compute, and record billing, accounting, statistical, and other numerical data for billing purposes. Prepare billing invoices for services rendered or for delivery or shipment of goods.
Among the careers AI is changing fastest: more resilient than 3% of the 831 careers we score. AI exposure is very high (the Bureau of Labor Statistics rates it very high), and US jobs are projected to change by -0.1% by 2035, expected to shrink.
AI can do many of the tasks, and hiring is expected to grow slower than average or to shrink. The job is likely to change, so build the human parts of it.
- Median pay (2025)
- $48,500
- Job growth to 2035
- -0.1%
- Openings a year
- 37,000
- People doing it (2025)
- 418,000
- Usual route in
- High school diploma, then moderate on-the-job training
Where people already use AI for this work
- Evaluate the quality or accuracy of data
- Operate office equipment
- Provide information to guests, clients, or customers
From Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025).
Work AI rarely helps with
- Maintain sales or financial records
- Reconcile financial data
- Process shipments or mail
What the work looks like
- Verify accuracy of billing data and revise any errors.
- Review compiled data on operating costs and revenues to set rates.
- Prepare itemized statements, bills, or invoices and record amounts due for items purchased or services rendered.
- Answer inquiries regarding rates, routing, or procedures.
- Keep records of invoices and support documents.
From O*NET 31.0, US Department of Labor.
What the Bureau of Labor Statistics expects
- Fewer of these jobs, as automated billing software will allow more billing work to be done by fewer employees.
Careers using similar strengths, with a stronger outlook
- CashiersChanging shape, Index 9, -6.5%
- Information and record clerks, all otherChanging shape, Index 7, +0.8%
- Communications equipment operators, all otherChanging shape, Index 5, +1.0%
- Financial clerks, all otherChanging shape, Index 5, 0.0%
Also known as: Billing Clerk, Billing Coordinator, Pre Audit Clerk, Statement Clerk, Biller, Billing Accounts Representative, Billing Specialist, IP Clerk (Item Processing Clerk).
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Sources: US Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections 2025 to 2035; O*NET 31.0; Microsoft Research (2025); Anthropic Economic Index (2026); Eloundou and colleagues (Science, 2024); Felten, Raj and Seamans (2023). How we score. Updated 12 October 2026.