Also called: Deputy Registrar, Birth & Death Records Specialist
Records and issues birth certificates, death certificates, and other official life-event records.
Vital records clerks check that birth and death records are correct, fix errors, search old handwritten files, and help people get certified copies they need for passports or estates. Some work with family historians searching records from a century ago.
County and state pay. Estimate.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
High school diploma, about 0 years after high school. High school diploma and on-the-job training.
Ways in: On-the-job training. Training cost: Get paid while you train.
Growing slowly. Online ordering reduces some counter work.
High risk for 10 years. Electronic registration and online ordering cut most manual record work; few clerks needed.
Age 18+. One way to start: Apply on your county or state health department job site for vital records clerk jobs First: Government hiring with an application and background check, often a few weeks
Classes: Keyboarding, Business class, Government.
Official data: O*NET occupation 43-4199.
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