Medical Claims Processor Salary & Pay Data

BLS OEWS May 2025 · Broader BLS occupation: SOC 43-9041 Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks

Broader occupation: median, all insurance claims and policy processing clerks
$49,230
$23.67 an hour
Medical Claims Processor wage alone (BLS)
Not published

BLS counts claims processors in insurance claims and policy processing clerks across every industry; medical claims examiners fall under a separate claims adjuster occupation.

Annual figures are BLS hourly wages × 2,080 hours. OEWS covers wage-and-salary workers only, so it leaves out the self-employed (including freelance billers and coders and billing company owners), workers in private households, overtime pay and most bonuses.

What the BLS figure covers

Median, all insurance claims and policy processing clerks
$49,230
Jobs in the occupation
214,260
BLS series for this title
None

These are BLS figures for every worker in SOC 43-9041 Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks, the broader occupation the title sits in.

BLS publishes no separate series or percentiles for medical claims processors, so this page does not show a percentile table for the role.