billing clerk
Billing clerks create credit memos, invoices and monthly customer statements and issue them to customers by all necessary means. They update customer files accordingly.
billing clerk billing clerks create credit memos, invoices and monthly customer statements and issue them to customers by all necessary means. They update customer files accordingly. The role shows moderate AI exposure (0.50 on a 0-1 scale) — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. The most in-demand skills for the role include financial department processes, financial capability, allocate bills, file documents, organise business documents.
Pay in the UK
UK: median £31,560 a year for Book-keepers, payroll managers and wages clerks (ONS ASHE 2025, full-time)
Middle half of full-time jobs: £26,802 to £40,123 a year
UK jobs are grouped differently; this is the closest UK occupation group (ONS SOC 2020 4122). ONS rates this estimate precise. 2025 provisional figures; ONS revises them a year later. Source: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (Open Government Licence)
Pay in India (occupation group)
Average monthly earnings of salaried employees in the occupation group “Clerical support workers” in India, from the Government of India's Periodic Labour Force Survey (January–December 2025). It covers everyone in this group, not only billing clerk, and it is not US pay converted to rupees.
Source: MoSPI (Government of India), Periodic Labour Force Survey Annual Report 2025, Table 51 — average wage/salary earnings of regular wage/salaried employees, NCO-2015 division 4. Official India data gives one average per occupation group: there are no official India figures for single careers, experience levels or cities. Read the report
Top skills
Knowledge you'll build
- Administrative
- Customer and Personal Service
- English Language
- Economics and Accounting
- Mathematics
- Computers and Electronics
- Administration and Management
- Personnel and Human Resources
What you'd actually do
- Verify accuracy of billing data and revise any errors.
- Resolve discrepancies in accounting records.
- Prepare itemized statements, bills, or invoices and record amounts due for items purchased or services rendered.
- Operate typing, adding, calculating, or billing machines.
- Post stop-payment notices to prevent payment of protested checks.
- Verify signatures and required information on checks.
Tools & technology you'd use
Frequently asked questions
What does billing clerk do?
Billing clerks create credit memos, invoices and monthly customer statements and issue them to customers by all necessary means. They update customer files accordingly.
What skills does billing clerk need?
The most in-demand skills for this role include financial department processes, financial capability, allocate bills, file documents, organise business documents, follow up accounts receivables. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.
Will AI replace billing clerk?
Our AI-durability model gives billing clerk a score of 0.50 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.