Brokerage Clerks — Career Decision Dashboard
United States
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Report generated from official BLS OEWS and O*NET data — United States.
Median annual wage
$65,750
United States, 2025
Employment
35,940
United States, 2025
Typical education
Bachelor's Degree
Job Zone 3
Skills identified
35
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Career overview
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
- Experience required
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years
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.
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Salary analysis — United States
10th percentile
$50,260
25th percentile
$58,620
75th percentile
$79,800
90th percentile
$102,010
Most important skills
- Active Listening3.9
- Speaking3.9
- Reading Comprehension3.8
- Time Management3.5
- Critical Thinking3.4
- Writing3.1
- Monitoring3.1
- Service Orientation3.0
- Judgment and Decision Making3.0
- Mathematics3.0
- Active Learning3.0
- Social Perceptiveness3.0
What skills do you need?
Select the skills you already have
Skills listed are those O*NET rates at importance 3.0 or above for this occupation. Set your own level on the same 0–7 O*NET scale.
Skill coverage
0%
0 of 12 identified skills
Matched
0
Missing
12
Your selected skills cover approximately 0% of the skills identified for this occupation in O*NET. This is a coverage measure of listed skills only — it is not a qualification, hiring or interview outcome.
Skills to develop
| Skill | Importance | Required level | Your level | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Active Listening | 3.9 | 3.9 | Not selected | 3.9 |
| Reading Comprehension | 3.8 | 3.8 | Not selected | 3.8 |
| Speaking | 3.9 | 3.6 | Not selected | 3.6 |
| Critical Thinking | 3.4 | 3.6 | Not selected | 3.6 |
| Time Management | 3.5 | 3.1 | Not selected | 3.1 |
| Writing | 3.1 | 3.5 | Not selected | 3.5 |
| Mathematics | 3.0 | 3.5 | Not selected | 3.5 |
| Monitoring | 3.1 | 3.0 | Not selected | 3.0 |
| Service Orientation | 3.0 | 3.1 | Not selected | 3.1 |
| Active Learning | 3.0 | 3.0 | Not selected | 3.0 |
| Social Perceptiveness | 3.0 | 3.0 | Not selected | 3.0 |
| Judgment and Decision Making | 3.0 | 2.9 | Not selected | 2.9 |
Ordered by required level gap multiplied by O*NET importance. No prediction or recommendation is implied.
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National median $49,230
Compare with Brokerage ClerksHow salary varies by location
| Location | Median | Employment | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| DC | $95,450 | — | 2025 |
| San Jose, CA | $90,220 | 320 | 2025 |
| San Francisco, CA | $89,370 | 1,360 | 2025 |
| Seattle, WA | $82,680 | — | 2025 |
| Akron, OH | $81,230 | 110 | 2025 |
| Bridgeport, CT | $79,660 | 270 | 2025 |
| NY | $78,930 | 5,950 | 2025 |
| New York, NY | $78,930 | 7,100 | 2025 |
| Portland, ME | $78,210 | 60 | 2025 |
| VT | $78,200 | 30 | 2025 |
| CA | $77,960 | 4,740 | 2025 |
| Detroit, MI | $77,940 | 190 | 2025 |
| Los Angeles, CA | $77,710 | 1,730 | 2025 |
| Allentown, PA | $76,950 | 50 | 2025 |
| Portland, OR | $75,420 | 340 | 2025 |
| CT | $75,330 | 420 | 2025 |
| NJ | $74,830 | 3,260 | 2025 |
| Riverside, CA | $74,730 | — | 2025 |
| San Diego, CA | $74,340 | 410 | 2025 |
| MI | $73,350 | 430 | 2025 |
Career transition paths
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Salary and employment data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, 2025 (May 2025 release).
Figures are periodic published survey snapshots, not real-time market rates.