Mid-Level

Laundry Pricing Clerk

You handle pricing in a laundry or dry cleaning operation โ€” receiving items, identifying garments, applying pricing, and being the customer-facing practitioner at intake. Half admin specialist, half customer service practitioner.

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Job markets for Laundry Pricing Clerks
Employment concentration ยท ~400 areas
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What it's like

What it's like to be a Laundry Pricing Clerk

Most days tend to involve a steady rhythm of customer interactions, intake processing, and operational coordination โ€” receiving orders, identifying garment types, applying pricing, processing payments, and partnering with the production team on special handling. You'll often spend part of the time on the documentation fabric of order tracking and customer records.

The harder part is often the volume of customer interactions combined with the variety of garments and special instructions that come through. You'll typically coordinate with customers, production staff, and managers, where careful intake matters for both customer satisfaction and production efficiency.

People who tend to thrive here are detail-oriented, customer-facing in a steady way, and comfortable with the variable rhythm of laundry intake work. The trade-off is the schedule of laundry operations and the cumulative pressure of being the customer-facing first point of contact. If you find satisfaction in being the steady, accurate intake person customers come back to, the role has a quiet usefulness.

RelationshipsModerate
SupportModerate
IndependenceLower
Working ConditionsLower
AchievementLower
RecognitionLower
O*NET Work Values survey
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Career Paths

Where this role sits in the broader career landscape โ€” and where it can take you.

$239K$179K$119K$60K$0KLower paying387 metro areas, sorted by salary level
All experience levels1
This level's estimated range
INDUSTRIES PAYING ABOVE AVERAGE
1 BLS OEWS May 2024 covers all Laundry Pricing Clerks (SOC 41-2021.00, 43-3021.00), not just this title ยท BEA RPP 2023
* Top salaries exceed this figure. BLS caps reported wages at ~$240K to protect individual privacy in high-earning roles.
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The Broader Landscape

Roles like this one sit within a broader occupational category. The numbers below reflect that full landscape โ€” helpful for context, but your specific experience will depend on level, specialty, and where you work.

$29Kโ€“$65K
Salary Range
10th โ€“ 90th percentile
816K
U.S. Employment
+1.4%
10yr Growth
88K
Annual Openings

How this category is changing

$64K$61K$59K$56K$53K201920202021202220232024$53K$64K
BLS OEWS May 2024 ยท BLS Employment Projections 2024โ€“2034

Skills & Requirements

Active ListeningReading ComprehensionService OrientationSpeakingMathematicsReading ComprehensionMonitoringSpeakingCritical ThinkingTime Management
O*NET OnLine ยท Bureau of Labor Statistics
41-2021.0043-3021.00

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Federal data: BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics (May 2024) ยท BLS Employment Projections ยท O*NET OnLine
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