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Loan Interviewers and Clerks pay in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX and Salinas, CA
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Loan Interviewers and Clerks is $50,900 per year in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX. It is $65,160 per year in Salinas, CA. Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX is 21.9% below Salinas, CA on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 43-4131 and the same annual wage metric. Median means the middle of each area's published wage spread. It is not one worker's pay. The larger median is not proof that one place gives a better job or a better result. It is one wage fact from one source period.
BLS lists 1,570 wage and salary jobs in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX and 60 in Salinas, CA. Those are survey job counts, not open posts. Read pay, job scale, local share, and price level as separate facts before you make a choice.