Processing toll settlements in a transportation, telecom, or services back office, you handle the daily reconciliation work between tolling parties — calculating settlement amounts, processing payments, reconciling against control totals.
A typical day tends to involve toll-activity reconciliation, settlement calculation, and payment processing — pulling toll records from transponder or transaction systems, calculating settlement amounts due to or from partner agencies, processing settlement payments, reconciling against control totals. Settlements processed cleanly and reconciliation closures on time are the operating measures.
The friction often lies in the cross-agency reconciliation work — toll settlements depend on partner agencies' records being clean, and discrepancies require patient resolution. Variance across employers is real: highway tolling authorities, bridge and tunnel operators, and interstate tolling networks each have their own settlement structures and partner relationships.
This work tends to fit folks who enjoy structured operational accounting and the cross-agency reconciliation work that tolling-settlement involves. Transportation-finance credentials anchor advancement. The trade-off is the niche nature of toll-settlement work — the specialty often keeps career mobility within transportation-finance functions.
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View all Admin & Office roles →Processing toll settlements in a transportation, telecom, or services back office, you handle the daily reconciliation work between tolling parties — calculating settlement amounts, processing payments, reconciling against control totals.
Median pay for a Toll Settlement Clerk is about $47K nationally, with the field ranging roughly from $36K to $65K depending on experience, employer, and metro (BLS).
Core skills for this role include Reading Comprehension, Mathematics, Time Management, Speaking, and Monitoring.
Most people in this role hold an associate's degree.
Employment in this field is projected to decline about 0.4% through 2034, with roughly 417,500 people working in it today (BLS).
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