Office Clerks, General Salary in Dover, DE

Office Clerks, General pay range in Dover

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $31,200 a year or less, while the top 10% make $56,430 or more. The middle half of office clerks, general in Dover earn between $31,200 and $46,170.

*Hourly figures assume 2,080 paid hours a year.

Office Clerks, General salary after taxes in Dover

On the average salary of $40,610, a single filer in Dover takes home about $33,123 a year, or $2,760 a month and $1,274 every two weeks. Taxes take 18% of gross pay.

Single filer, standard deduction: federal income tax (2026 brackets), Social Security, Medicare and state income tax (2025 rules).

Is Dover a good place for office clerks, general? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the Dover area are 2% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 97.5), so the average $40,610 buys what about $41,648 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.8 times the median wage of all jobs in Dover ($46,690). A typical home costs $372,156, or 9.2 years of this average salary before tax.

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• Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks$49,870 a year
• Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other$44,350 a year
• Data Entry Keyers$41,720 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers$69,370 a year
• Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants$67,670 a year
• Postal Service Clerks$63,630 a year
• Postal Service Mail Carriers$59,670 a year
• Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks$59,540 a year

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