Jobs / Office and administrative support / 43-4071.00
File Clerks
File correspondence, cards, invoices, receipts, and other records in alphabetical or numerical order or according to the filing system used. Locate and remove material from file when requested.
- US jobs
- 73,440
- Median wage
- $43,600 a year
- Job family
- Office and administrative support
Can agents do the work of file clerks?
We read the evidence for the whole job family, Office and administrative support: Most tasks (no change in 12 months)
Agents complete 60% or more of the tasks (or projects) on two direct benchmarks from independent institutions.
Evidence: OSWorld-Verified, 90.2% of tasks completed; SpreadsheetBench, 83.1% of tasks completed.
33% of this occupation's work, by O*NET work activities, is measured by a direct benchmark.
- 13%Compile records, documentation, or other dataNot measured
- 13%Stock supplies or productsNot measured
- 10%Communicate with others about operational plans or activitiesMeasured
- 9%Perform administrative or clerical activitiesMeasured
- 7%Operate office equipmentNot measured
- 7%Develop operational or technical procedures or standardsNot measured
- 7%Read documents or materials to inform work processesNot measured
- 6%Maintain operational recordsMeasured
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in office and administrative support, not always this occupation's tasks.
Direct evidence
Work benchmarks mapped primary to this family. They set the step when they report how many tasks agents complete.
- 45.9%Claude Opus 4.6 · 16 Mar 2026Emerging
- OSWorld-Verifiedby HKU, Salesforce AI Research, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Waterloo90.2%Intelligence-Indeed Agent · 25 Jul 2026Saturated
Also relevant
These benchmarks cover part of this family's work, or have no result yet. They do not set its step.
- 54.5%arito · 13 Sep 2026Emerging
Context only
These benchmarks span many occupations, or they test how agents behave. They give context but do not set the step.
- 42.9%TTE-MatrixAgent + DeepSeek-V3.2 · 10 Nov 2025Emerging
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Perform general office activities, such as typing, answering telephones, operating office machines, processing mail, or securing confidential materials.
- Keep records of materials filed or removed, using logbooks or computers and generate computerized reports.
- Gather materials to be filed from departments or employees.
- Find, retrieve, and make copies of information from files in response to requests and deliver information to authorized users.
- Add new material to file records or create new records as necessary.
- Sort or classify information according to guidelines, such as content, purpose, user criteria, or chronological, alphabetical, or numerical order.
- Scan or read incoming materials to determine how and where they should be classified or filed.
- Eliminate outdated or unnecessary materials, destroying them or transferring them to inactive storage, according to file maintenance guidelines or legal requirements.
- Answer questions about records or files.
- Assign and record or stamp identification numbers or codes to index materials for filing.
- Place materials into storage receptacles, such as file cabinets, boxes, bins, or drawers, according to classification and identification information.
- Modify or improve filing systems or implement new filing systems.
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