Inside a utility's metering operation, you maintain meter records — supporting meter-inventory, equipment tracking, installation and removal records, and the records work behind utility-meter operations.
Most days revolve around meter-records work, equipment-tracking updates, and steady cross-team engagement — maintaining records of installed meters and their attributes, processing meter-installation and meter-removal records, supporting capital-asset tracking for meter equipment, working with field-operations on records reconciliation. Records accuracy, audit-readiness of meter inventory, and cross-team support quality tend to shape the visible measures.
The hardest part is often the inventory-reconciliation discipline — meter records have to reconcile across field operations, billing systems, and capital-asset records, and discrepancies require careful investigation. Variance across employers is wide: large utilities run with mature meter-asset-management systems; smaller utilities run more manually with the records clerk maintaining accuracy.
Strong meter record clerks tend to carry steady detail orientation, comfort with reconciliation work across systems, and the patient cross-team coordination that meter-records work requires. Utility-operations training and growing meter-data-management exposure anchor advancement. The trade-off is modest pay at the entry rung balanced by clear progression into meter-data specialist or operations-leadership roles.
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View all Admin & Office roles →Inside a utility's metering operation, you maintain meter records — supporting meter-inventory, equipment tracking, installation and removal records, and the records work behind utility-meter operations.
Median pay for a Meter Record Clerk is about $49K nationally, with the field ranging roughly from $34K to $86K depending on experience, employer, and metro (BLS).
Core skills for this role include Reading Comprehension, Critical Thinking, Active Listening, Time Management, and Service Orientation.
Most people in this role hold a high school diploma.
Employment in this field is projected to decline about 12% through 2034, with roughly 19,620 people working in it today (BLS).
Closely related roles include Gas Meter Reader, Steam Meter Reader, and Electric Meter Reader.
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