An accounting clerk is an accountant who doesn’t have government certification. In some states, they may not need any education at all, beyond whatever their employer demands of them. They usually work under the direction of a CPA, and they cannot perform many tasks, such as auditing, that a CPA can. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median pay for an accounting clerk is $42,410 per year. Assuming a 40-hour work week, that comes out to about $815 a week or approximately $20.39 an hour.