At a transportation company, freight operation, regulatory agency, or specialty tariff-services firm, you handle the clerical work of tariff compilation — supporting tariff compilers and senior staff with the data gathering, formatting, and processing tariff publication and filing requires.
Tariff-compiling-clerk work supports the technical-tariff layer with the clerical and operational support tariff publication requires — gathering rate information from source documents, supporting data entry into tariff-management systems, processing tariff-filing paperwork, supporting tariff-revision work, and the back-office coordination that tariff publication and filing generate. The clerk works the tariff-management platform, the regulatory-framework documentation, and the workflow that connects rate sources to published tariffs. Tariff-data accuracy, processing turnaround, and compliance support are the operating measures.
The reality is that tariff-clerk positions have contracted with broader transportation deregulation — the regulatory simplifications that reduced tariff-filing requirements across motor freight, rail, and ocean shipping have absorbed much of the traditional tariff-clerk workload. The role persists in specifically regulated contexts and in specialty tariff-services operations supporting the remaining filing requirements.
This role fits people who are detail-oriented, comfortable with transportation-industry frameworks, and patient with the contracting employment field traditional tariff work offers. Transportation-industry training and tariff-specific credentials anchor the role. The trade-off is the contracting employment field in tariff-clerical positions and the limited career mobility from tariff-specific work into adjacent transportation roles.
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View all Admin & Office roles →At a transportation company, freight operation, regulatory agency, or specialty tariff-services firm, you handle the clerical work of tariff compilation — supporting tariff compilers and senior staff with the data gathering, formatting, and processing tariff publication and filing requires.
Median pay for a Tariff Compiling Clerk is about $51K nationally, with the field ranging roughly from $38K to $79K depending on experience, employer, and metro (BLS).
Core skills for this role include Mathematics, Critical Thinking, Reading Comprehension, Active Learning, and Complex Problem Solving.
Most people in this role hold a bachelor's degree.
Employment in this field is projected to decline about 2.5% through 2034, with roughly 5,900 people working in it today (BLS).
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