Index Clerk
Oswego County Human Resources Department
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Oswego County’s Clerks Office is hiring an Index Clerk to record and index legal instruments. The work is performed under applicable laws, office rules, and procedures for indexing, filing, and recording legal documents. The position requires accuracy and attention to detail. Applicants must meet one of the listed education or clerical-experience paths; the title is temporarily approved for appointment without an exam through the HELP Program.
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Oswego County Index Clerk The Oswego County Clerks Office has an immediate opening for an Index Clerk. This position requires a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail in the recording and indexing of legal instruments. The duties are performed within the scope of laws, office rules, and procedures relating to the indexing, filing and recording of legal documents. Qualifications: Completion of 60 semester credit hours; OR Graduation from high school or possession of an equivalency diploma and two (2) years of clerical experience; OR Three (3) years of clerical experience. This title has been approved to be filled without the need to take an exam for a limited period through the HELP Program. Candidates appointed permanently to this title will NOT need to take an exam and will remain in their position even when the HELP Program ends. Pay Rate: $19.81 per hour plus competitive benefit package including: health, life, dental and vision insurance; NYS Retirement; and Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. To Apply: Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Please visit our website to complete an online application or submit a paper application to the address below. Oswego County Human Resources Department 46 East Bridge Street Oswego, New York 13126 (315) 349-8209 Fax: (315) 349-8254 Email: [email protected] Web: www.oswegocountyny.gov/humanresources AA/EEO EMPLOYER
How this job compares
Set against the 924 open Clerical jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$19.81/hr
- New York median$19–22/hr107 hourly ranges
- US median$19–21/hr447 hourly ranges
This rate, $19.81/hr, is 3% below the New York median midpoint ($21/hr) — in the middle half of Clerical hourly ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 181 open Clerical jobs in New York and 924 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
- New York State Civil Service20 open
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- Experience
- Clerical postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (348 postings).
- Education
- 4 of the 924 open Clerical jobs (under 1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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