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Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks

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Demographics

Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks

Employed persons, 2004

Employed persons: 1,567,000	Percent of total
	Women	Men	Black	Asian	Hispanic
	91.8%	8.2%	7.4%	3.9%	6.9%

Full-time wage and salary workers, 2004
Employment Median weekly earnings
$ W/M ratio
Women
(emp.) (earn.) 916,000 $542 0.963
Men
(emp.) (earn.) 88,000 $563
All workers
(emp.) (earn.) 1,004,000 $543

source: Current Population Survey; about this section

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Area and Industry employment and wages
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks: (Area) (Industry)

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