Jobs / Office and administrative support / 43-4011.00
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.
- US jobs
- 35,940
- Median wage
- $65,750 a year
- Job family
- Office and administrative support
Can agents do the work of brokerage clerks?
We read the evidence for the whole job family, Office and administrative support: Most tasks (no change in 12 months)
Agents complete 60% or more of the tasks (or projects) on two direct benchmarks from independent institutions.
Evidence: OSWorld-Verified, 90.2% of tasks completed; SpreadsheetBench, 83.1% of tasks completed.
31% of this occupation's work, by O*NET work activities, is measured by a direct benchmark.
- 22%Prepare documentation for contracts, applications, or permitsNot measured
- 13%Perform administrative or clerical activitiesMeasured
- 9%Communicate with others about operational plans or activitiesMeasured
- 9%Respond to customer problems or inquiriesMeasured
- 7%Provide information to guests, clients, or customersNot measured
- 7%Distribute materials, supplies, or resourcesNot measured
- 7%Present research or technical informationNot measured
- 7%Calculate financial dataNot measured
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in office and administrative support, not always this occupation's tasks.
Direct evidence
Work benchmarks mapped primary to this family. They set the step when they report how many tasks agents complete.
- 45.9%Claude Opus 4.6 · 16 Mar 2026Emerging
- OSWorld-Verifiedby HKU, Salesforce AI Research, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Waterloo90.2%Intelligence-Indeed Agent · 25 Jul 2026Saturated
Also relevant
These benchmarks cover part of this family's work, or have no result yet. They do not set its step.
- 54.5%arito · 13 Sep 2026Emerging
Context only
These benchmarks span many occupations, or they test how agents behave. They give context but do not set the step.
- 42.9%TTE-MatrixAgent + DeepSeek-V3.2 · 10 Nov 2025Emerging
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- 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.
- Compute total holdings, dividends, interest, transfer taxes, brokerage fees, or commissions and allocate appropriate payments to customers.
- Prepare reports summarizing daily transactions and earnings for individual customer accounts.
Other job titles for this occupation (56)
Account Administrator · Client Associate · Client Service Associate · Operations Clerk · Operations Coordinator · Registered Account Administrator · Registered Sales Assistant · Sales Assistant · Sales Trader · Trading Assistant · Broker Assistant · Broker Associate · Brokerage Agent · Brokerage Analyst · Brokerage Assistant · Brokerage Associate · Brokerage Clerk · Brokerage Coordinator · Brokerage Operations Representative (Brokerage Operations Rep) · Brokerage Operations Specialist · Brokerage Purchase-and-Sale Clerk · Brokerage Service Associate · Brokerage Services Specialist · Brokerage Specialist · Business Broker · Client Administrator · Client Service Representative · Commodities Clerk · Coupon Clerk · Dividend Clerk · Information Clerk Brokerage · Margin Clerk · Operations Representative · Operations Specialist · OTC Clerk (Over the Counter Clerk) · Portfolio Assistant · Private Client Investment Associate · Quotation Checker · Quotation Clerk · Registered Associate · Registered Client Associate · Registered Client Services Associate · Securities Clerk · Securities Processor · Securities Settlement Processor · Service Associate · Stock Clerk · Support Analyst · Support Broker · Telephone Quotation Clerk · Transaction Processor · Transfer Agent · Transfer Associate · Transfer Clerk · Transfer Specialist · Wealth Services Associate