Brokerage Clerks
Perform duties related to the purchase, sale, or holding of securities. Duties include writing orders for stock purchases or sales, computing transfer taxes, verifying stock transactions, accepting and delivering securities, tracking stock price fluctuations, computing equity, distributing dividends, and keeping records of daily transactions and holdings.
- Median annual earnings
- $65,708
- Projected change
- −4.3%
- Typical education
- Bachelor's degree
- Employment
- 38.14K jobs
50th percentile, United States
2025 to 2035
38.2% of the workforce
Growing to 36.51K by 2035
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The work
What brokerage clerks do
Tasks reported for this occupation, ordered by how often they come up in the role.
- Correspond with customers and confer with coworkers to answer inquiries, discuss market fluctuations, or resolve account problems.
- Document security transactions, such as purchases, sales, conversions, redemptions, or payments, using computers, accounting ledgers, or certificate records.
- File, type, or operate standard office machines.
- Perform clerical tasks, such as answering phones or distributing mail.
- Prepare forms, such as receipts, withdrawal orders, transmittal papers, or transfer confirmations, based on transaction requests from stockholders.
Pay and outlook
What the job pays and where it is heading
Annual earnings range
Reported earnings by percentile, United States
- 10th percentile
- $50,187
- 25th percentile
- $58,556
- 50th percentile
- $65,708
- 75th percentile
- $79,783
- 90th percentile
- $102,062
The gold marker shows the median. Half earn more than $65,708 and half earn less.
Employment outlook
2025 to 2035 projection
1,627 fewer positions over the decade, before replacement hiring.
Preparation
Education levels
What people currently working in the career hold. These are not entry requirements.
- Bachelor's degree
- 38.2%
- High school diploma or less
- 29.1%
- Some college
- 20%
- Associate degree
- 12.7%
Skills
Skills employers ask for
Technical skills appearing most often in job postings for this occupation.
How the work gets done
Core competencies
Broad capabilities associated with strong performance in this occupation.
- Active Listening
- Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Speaking
- Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Reading Comprehension
- Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
- Time Management
- Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Critical Thinking
- Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
- Writing
- Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Monitoring
- Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Mathematics
- Using mathematics to solve problems.
- Service Orientation
- Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Active Learning
- Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Social Perceptiveness
- Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Coordination
- Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Complex Problem Solving
- Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Negotiation
- Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
- Systems Analysis
- Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Learning Strategies
- Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
- Management of Personnel Resources
- Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
- Systems Evaluation
- Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
- Persuasion
- Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
In the market
Job titles and employers
Recent job postings in United StatesCommon job titles
- 01Client Associates272 postings
- 02Private Client Investment Associates171 postings
- 03Registered Client Associates152 postings
- 04Regional Support Specialists126 postings
- 05Brokers Associate116 postings
- 06Brokerage Assistants94 postings
- 07Brokerage Associates86 postings
- 08Registered Client Service Associates53 postings
- 09Business Assistants52 postings
- 10Investment Associates49 postings
- 11Wealth Management Associates45 postings
- 12Wealth Management Professionals43 postings
- 13Private Client Associates41 postings
- 14Interns40 postings
- 15Broker Assistants39 postings
- 16Associates37 postings
- 17Middle Office Associates37 postings
- 18Insurance Brokers36 postings
- 19Project Assistants35 postings
- 20Leasing Assistants29 postings
Top employers
- 01Wells Fargo394 postings
- 02JPMorgan Chase276 postings
- 03Morgan Stanley103 postings
- 04UBS100 postings
- 05JLL94 postings
- 06Truist Financial94 postings
- 07Ryan Specialty Holdings80 postings
- 08Anywhere Real Estate73 postings
- 09CBRE48 postings
- 10Janney Montgomery Scott44 postings
- 11Bank of America37 postings
- 12Fidelity Investments34 postings
- 13Selby Jennings33 postings
- 14Exp World Holdings31 postings
- 15Acosta Group30 postings
- 16Hays30 postings
- 17Fiducient Advisors29 postings
- 18Nfp29 postings
- 19Pinnacle Realty Advisors29 postings
- 20Citigroup28 postings
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