Louisiana·Office and Administrative Support Occupations·SOC 43-9061

Best Office Clerk, General programs in Louisiana, ranked by enrollment

Perform duties too varied and diverse to be classified in any specific office clerical occupation, requiring knowledge of office systems and procedures.

1 schools in Louisiana run programs that feed this job, graduating 1 people a year. The job pays a median of $32,480 in Louisiana across about 31,790 jobs (BLS OEWS May 2025).

Also calledClerkOffice ClerkOffice AssistantOffice Services SpecialistRouterCharterStubberMap Clerk
Graduates / yr
1
in Louisiana
Median pay · Louisiana
$32,480
BLS OEWS May 2025
Jobs in state
31,790
people employed
Schools
1
with a feeder program
Avg graduation rate
59%
across those schools
Median net price
$20,818
per year, IPEDS

Fields of study in Louisiana that lead to this job

Grouped at the 4-digit CIP level. Numbers are graduates per year in this state.

1 programs in Louisiana that lead to this job

Ranked by graduates per year in Louisiana (IPEDS completions). Graduate earnings and debt are national College Scorecard figures reported at the 4-digit CIP level, so specializations within one field share a figure. Each program also links to its own Louisiana page.

Degree programs that lead to this occupation, ranked by graduates per year
#ProgramGraduates / yrShare of pipelineSchoolsGrad earnings (1 yr)Median debt
1
CIP 52.0408In Louisiana
1
100.0%
1$25,993$9,500

Top 1 schools in Louisiana

Ranked by graduates per year into this job. Graduate earnings are reported for 0 of the 1 schools in this state.

Schools ranked by graduates per year into this occupation
#SchoolGraduates / yrTop feeder programGrad earnings (1 yr)Grad rateNet priceAcceptance
1ITI Technical College
Baton Rouge, LA Private for-profit · 1 feeder programs
1General Office Occupations and Clerical Services59%$20,818

All 1 schools in Louisiana

Every school in Louisiana with a program that feeds this job, ordered by graduates per year. Earnings are shown for the ranked schools above; open a school profile for the rest.

All schools in Louisiana that feed this occupation
SchoolCityControlGraduates / yrFeeder programs
ITI Technical CollegeBaton RougePrivate for-profit11

What office clerks, general earn in Louisiana

What people already working in this job earn (BLS OEWS May 2025). Not graduate earnings.

Median annual in Louisiana
$32,480
Mean annual
$34,470
Jobs in state
31,790
What the range looks like
10th pct$20,920Median$32,48090th pct$49,520
Versus the national median
-27.8%

U.S. median $45,010. Louisiana pays below the national figure.

Job concentration
1.04×

1.00× means the state has its expected share of these jobs.

Metro areas in Louisiana

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
$33,990median
3,040 jobs
New Orleans-Metairie, LA
$33,860median
6,740 jobs
Alexandria, LA
$32,340median
1,420 jobs
Baton Rouge, LA
$32,520median
5,020 jobs
Lafayette, LA
$34,510median
4,240 jobs
Lake Charles, LA
$31,630median
1,590 jobs
Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA
$31,760median
1,490 jobs
Hammond, LA
$30,980median
650 jobs

Job outlook

Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections, 2024 to 2034.

Projected growth 2024–34
-6.7%
Decline
Openings per year
282,400
new jobs plus replacements
Employment change
-177,800
2,646,000 → 2,468,200
Typical entry education
High school diploma or equivalent
Plus short-term on-the-job training

Growth and openings are national. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish employment projections at state level, so these figures describe the occupation across the whole U.S., not this state alone.

How to get in

The full skills, tools, and day-to-day breakdown lives on the national Office Clerks, General page.

How to become a Office Clerk, General

Job zone 2 of 5 · SVP Below 6.0
Typical entry education
High school diploma or equivalent
On-the-job training
Short-term on-the-job training

Usually requires a high school diploma or GED, though some occupations may not.

Some occupations may need little or no previous experience; others require several months to a year of experience. For example, landscaping and groundskeeping workers might require very little training or previous experience, while agricultural equipment operators can benefit from on-the job training.

Ranges from a few days to one year of on-the-job training.

Top skills

Reading ComprehensionActive ListeningSpeakingWritingCritical ThinkingMonitoring

The same job in other states

Where else this occupation employs the most people, and what it pays there.

Related careers in Louisiana

Every major mapped to this job

The official federal mapping behind the rankings above.

All 1 majors mapped to Office Clerks, General1 of them graduated someone in the latest IPEDS year. NCES CIP 2020 → SOC 2018 crosswalk.+
  • 52.0408General Office Occupations and Clerical Services

Common questions

Answers for people weighing office clerks, general programs in Louisiana.

What degree do you need to become an Office Clerk, General?+

High school diploma or equivalent is the typical entry-level education BLS reports for this occupation. The most common program people actually graduate from is General Office Occupations and Clerical Services, which awarded 1 degrees in Louisiana in 2024-25, 100.0% of everyone graduating from a program that feeds this career.

Which college majors lead to becoming an Office Clerk, General?+

The NCES CIP-to-SOC crosswalk maps 1 programs to this occupation. The largest are Business Operations Support and Assistant Services. Together they graduate about 1 people a year in Louisiana.

How much do office clerks, general earn in Louisiana?+

The median is $32,480 a year (BLS OEWS May 2025). That is 27.8% below the U.S. median of $45,010. This is pay for people already working in the occupation, not the same thing as graduate earnings one year after finishing a degree.

Is demand for office clerks, general growing?+

BLS projects a -6.7% change in employment between 2024 and 2034, decline, with roughly 282,400 openings a year nationally once retirements and job changes are counted.

How many schools offer programs for this career in Louisiana?+

1 institutions in Louisiana reported graduates from at least one of the 1 programs that feed this occupation in IPEDS 2024-25. Rankings on this page use graduates per year, because the federal data publishes no enrollment count by program.

What other job titles do office clerks, general work under?+

Employers advertise this work under many names. O*NET records Clerk, Office Clerk, Office Assistant, Office Services Specialist among the most commonly reported, all mapping to SOC 43-9061.

About the data on this page

Rankings use IPEDS completions 2024–25, degrees awarded per year. That is the closest federal measure of how many people a program puts into a career, because no federal dataset publishes enrollment by program. Wages and employment come from BLS OEWS May 2025, growth and openings from BLS Employment Projections 2024-34, and which majors lead to which jobs from the NCES CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk. Occupation descriptions, tasks, skills and tools are O*NET 30.3 (CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor/ETA).

  • BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics

    May 2025

    Wages, employment counts, location quotients and metro breakdowns.

  • BLS Employment Projections

    2024–34

    Projected growth, annual openings and typical entry-level education.

  • IPEDS Completions

    2024-25 (provisional)

    Graduates per year by program and institution — the ranking metric.

  • College Scorecard, Field of Study

    2020-21 cohorts

    Median graduate earnings one year after completion, and median debt.

  • Census Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes

    latest available

    Graduate earnings 1/5/10 years out, where the state participates.

  • NCES CIP 2020 and the CIP-to-SOC 2018 crosswalk

    CIP 2020 / SOC 2018

    Which college programs officially lead to this occupation.

  • O*NET Database 30.3

    30.3

    Tasks, skills, knowledge, tools, job zone and alternate job titles.

    Official source →CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor / ETA

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