Brokerage Clerks Career, Salary and Skills
Brokerage Clerks have a BLS-reported national median annual wage of $65,750 based on the 2025 OEWS dataset, with reported national employment of 35,940. Wage data is published for 121 locations.
Occupation description
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.
O*NET code
43-4011.00
Job zone
3
Typical education
Bachelor's Degree
Experience
Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years
National salary and employment
Median annual
$65,750
Hourly median
$31.61
Employment
35,940
Data year
2025
National salary distribution
Top skills
| Skill | Importance | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Speaking | 3.88 | 3.62 |
| Active Listening | 3.88 | 3.88 |
| Reading Comprehension | 3.75 | 3.75 |
| Time Management | 3.50 | 3.12 |
| Critical Thinking | 3.38 | 3.62 |
| Monitoring | 3.12 | 3.00 |
| Writing | 3.12 | 3.50 |
| Mathematics | 3.00 | 3.50 |
| Active Learning | 3.00 | 3.00 |
| Social Perceptiveness | 3.00 | 3.00 |
Typical tasks
- 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.
- Schedule and coordinate transfer and delivery of security certificates between companies, departments, and customers.
- Monitor daily stock prices and compute fluctuations to determine the need for additional collateral to secure loans.
- Verify ownership and transaction information and dividend distribution instructions to ensure conformance with governmental regulations, using stock records and reports.
Technology
- Account management software
- Adobe Acrobat
- Adobe Creative Cloud software
- Adobe Dreamweaver
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe Photoshop
- Bloomberg Professional
- HEAT Software GoldMine
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Dynamics
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office software
- Microsoft Outlook
Brokerage Clerks salary by location
Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.
- Brokerage Clerks Salary in New York, NYMedian $78,930 · Employment 7,100
- Brokerage Clerks Salary in NYMedian $78,930 · Employment 5,950
- Brokerage Clerks Salary in CAMedian $77,960 · Employment 4,740
- Brokerage Clerks Salary in NJMedian $74,830 · Employment 3,260
- Brokerage Clerks Salary in ILMedian $63,350 · Employment 2,060
- Brokerage Clerks Salary in Philadelphia, PAMedian $61,010 · Employment 2,000
- Brokerage Clerks Salary in FLMedian $63,130 · Employment 1,830
- Brokerage Clerks Salary in Chicago, ILMedian $63,390 · Employment 1,790
- Brokerage Clerks Salary in Los Angeles, CAMedian $77,710 · Employment 1,730
- Brokerage Clerks Salary in PAMedian $60,390 · Employment 1,470
- Brokerage Clerks Salary in San Francisco, CAMedian $89,370 · Employment 1,360
- Brokerage Clerks Salary in TXMedian $63,060 · Employment 1,300
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Career and skills data: O*NET 31.0 (onetcenter.org). Salary and employment data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS, 2025 (bls.gov/oes). Figures are published survey estimates, not real-time market data.