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title: "Brokerage Clerk"
description: "Perform duties related to the purchase, sale, or holding of securities. Duties include writing orders for stock purchases or sales, computing transfer…"
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last-updated: "2026-10-09T10:57:55.138Z"
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# Brokerage Clerk

**Category:** Office and Administrative Support · **SOC code:** 43-4011 · **O\*NET-SOC code:** 43-4011.00

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.

Also advertised as: Account Administrator; Client Associate; Client Service Associate; Operations Clerk; Operations Coordinator; Registered Account Administrator; Registered Sales Assistant; Sales Assistant.

## At a glance

- **Median annual wage:** $65,750 (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
- **Median hourly wage:** $31.61/hr
- **Wage range (10th–90th percentile):** $50,260 to $102,010, with the middle half between $58,620 and $79,800
- **Total US employment:** 35,940
- **Typical entry education:** High school
- **Preparation required:** Some preparation — O\*NET rates this "Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed"
- **Projected growth:** -7.6% over 2025–2035 (BLS EP, 2025–2035)
- **Annual job openings:** 3,400 openings a year
- **AI-resilience score:** 8/100 — a NueCareer heuristic over O\*NET work activities and context, not a BLS or O\*NET figure

## Pay

National wage distribution, BLS OEWS, May 2025, across 35,940 US jobs.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $50,260 |
| 25th | $58,620 |
| 50th (median) | $65,750 |
| 75th | $79,800 |
| 90th | $102,010 |
| Mean (average) | $72,850 |

### Pay by state

The 15 highest-paying states, by median annual wage. The cost-of-living-adjusted column divides the state median by that state's BEA Regional Price Parity, so the columns answer different questions: the first is what the job pays there, the second is what that pay buys there.

| State | Median annual wage | Cost-of-living adjusted | Employment |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DC | $95,450 | $86,851 | Not published by BLS |
| NY | $78,930 | $73,137 | 5,950 |
| VT | $78,200 | $79,830 | 30 |
| CA | $77,960 | $70,412 | 4,740 |
| CT | $75,330 | $72,705 | 420 |
| NJ | $74,830 | $68,774 | 3,260 |
| MI | $73,350 | $76,234 | 430 |
| WA | $73,120 | $68,328 | 140 |
| ME | $72,840 | $75,054 | 80 |
| OR | $72,250 | $69,901 | 470 |
| NH | $68,140 | $65,415 | 200 |
| UT | $67,410 | $68,185 | 320 |
| TN | $64,610 | $70,328 | 370 |
| OH | $64,020 | $69,006 | 800 |
| WI | $63,870 | $67,878 | 460 |

25 more states with published wage data are omitted here. The full table for all 40 states is at https://nuecareer.com/careers/brokerage-clerk/salary-by-state, or as JSON at https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/brokerage-clerk.

## Outlook

BLS projects employment to move from 36,900 in the 2025–2035 base year to 34,100 by the end of the cycle — a loss of 2,800 jobs, or -7.6%. Declining: -7.6% against 3.5% projected for all occupations over the same cycle. About 3,400 openings a year are expected on average, counting openings from growth as well as from workers leaving the occupation permanently. Source: BLS EP, 2025–2035.

## How to get in

- **Typical entry education:** High school diploma or equivalent (BLS Employment Projections).
- **Preparation level:** Some preparation — O\*NET's preparation band for this occupation is "Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed".
- **Related work experience typically required:** None.
- **Typical on-the-job training:** Moderate-term on-the-job training.

### Education people in this job actually hold

O\*NET surveys incumbents, so this distribution describes who is in the job today and can differ from the BLS entry requirement above.

| Education level | Share of workers |
| --- | --- |
| Bachelor's Degree | 38.2% |
| High School Diploma or the equivalent (such as a GED) | 29.1% |
| Some College Courses | 20.0% |
| Associate's Degree or other 2-year degree | 12.7% |

## What the work involves

- Correspond with customers and confer with coworkers to answer inquiries, discuss market fluctuations, or resolve account problems.
- Perform clerical tasks, such as answering phones or distributing mail.
- File, type, or operate standard office machines.
- Document security transactions, such as purchases, sales, conversions, redemptions, or payments, using computers, accounting ledgers, or certificate records.
- Prepare forms, such as receipts, withdrawal orders, transmittal papers, or transfer confirmations, based on transaction requests from stockholders.

## Skills and knowledge

### Essential skills

- Active Listening — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speaking — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Reading Comprehension — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Critical Thinking — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Writing — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Monitoring — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Mathematics — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Learning — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Transferable skills

These are the skills that carry into other occupations, and they drive the related-occupation and career-change rankings on this site.

- Time Management — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Social Perceptiveness — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Service Orientation — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Judgment and Decision Making — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Coordination — importance 2.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Negotiation — importance 2.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Complex Problem Solving — importance 2.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Systems Analysis — importance 2.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Knowledge areas

- English Language — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Customer and Personal Service — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Mathematics — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Computers and Electronics — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Economics and Accounting — importance 3.2 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Administrative — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Abilities

- Oral Comprehension — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Expression — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Written Comprehension — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Near Vision — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Written Expression — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speech Recognition — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

## Who it suits

O\*NET rates every occupation on the six Holland (RIASEC) interest areas, on a 1–7 scale. This occupation's strongest areas are Conventional (C), Enterprising (E).

| Interest area | Score (1–7) |
| --- | --- |
| C — Conventional | 6.96 |
| E — Enterprising | 4.51 |
| S — Social | 2.32 |
| R — Realistic | 2.10 |
| I — Investigative | 1.27 |
| A — Artistic | 1.00 |

### Personality fit

These scores are **derived by NueCareer**, not published by any government agency: they are cosine similarities between a personality type's trait profile and this occupation's O\*NET interest and work-style ratings, expressed 0–100. Treat them as a starting point for exploration, not as evidence that a type belongs in a job.

| Type | Fit score (0–100) |
| --- | --- |
| ESTJ | 85.0 |
| ESFJ | 80.0 |
| ISFJ | 75.8 |
| ISTJ | 74.4 |
| ENTJ | 60.7 |

Best-fitting types: ESTJ, ESFJ.

## Related occupations

O\*NET's primary related occupations, in its own ranked order.

- [Security, Commodity, and Financial Services Sales Agent](https://nuecareer.com/careers/security-commodity-and-financial-services-sales-agent) — median $78,660
- [New Accounts Clerk](https://nuecareer.com/careers/new-accounts-clerk) — median $47,670
- [Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerk](https://nuecareer.com/careers/bookkeeping-accounting-and-auditing-clerk) — median $50,670
- [Customer Service Representative](https://nuecareer.com/careers/customer-service-representative) — median $44,770
- [Teller](https://nuecareer.com/careers/teller) — median $43,030
- [Sales Representative of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel](https://nuecareer.com/careers/sales-representative-of-services) — median $69,990
- [Billing and Posting Clerk](https://nuecareer.com/careers/billing-and-posting-clerk) — median $48,500
- [Loan Interviewer and Clerk](https://nuecareer.com/careers/loan-interviewer-and-clerk) — median $50,020
- [Credit Authorizer, Checker, and Clerk](https://nuecareer.com/careers/credit-authorizer-checker-and-clerk) — median $50,080
- [Bill and Account Collector](https://nuecareer.com/careers/bill-and-account-collector) — median $47,030

## Sources

- **O\*NET** — O\*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS OEWS** — BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS EP** — BLS Employment Projections, Table 1.2, 2025–2035. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **BLS OOH** — BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2025–2035 edition. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/
- **BEA RPP** — BEA Regional Price Parities by State, 2024. https://www.bea.gov/data/prices-inflation/regional-price-parities-state-and-metro-area

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