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.
Most important skills
- Active Listening
- Speaking
- Reading Comprehension
- Time Management
- Critical Thinking
- Writing
- Monitoring
- Mathematics
Key knowledge
- English Language
- Customer and Personal Service
- Mathematics
- Computers and Electronics
- Economics and Accounting
- Administrative
- Sales and Marketing
- Law and Government
What the work involves
- Correspond with customers and confer with coworkers to answer inquiries, discuss market fluctuations, or resolve account problems.
- Prepare forms, such as receipts, withdrawal orders, transmittal papers, or transfer confirmations, based on transaction requests from stockholders.
- 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.
- Perform clerical tasks, such as answering phones or distributing mail.
- 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.
- Compute total holdings, dividends, interest, transfer taxes, brokerage fees, or commissions and allocate appropriate payments to customers.
Strongest interest areas (O*NET): Conventional, Enterprising, Social.
Qualifications and licensing
- Most common education
- Bachelor's Degree (38.2% of respondents)
- Related experience
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years (40.6%)
- On-the-job training
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year (41.8%)
- Preparation level
- O*NET job zone 3: Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed
- Licensing
- Not yet verified. Check your state licensing board.
Check before planning
- Licensing for Brokerage Clerks is not yet verified for any state: check the state licensing board before planning.
Limits
- Distributions show what current workers or occupational experts report, not legal minimums.
- Requirements vary by employer and state; time to qualify is not estimated.
Source: O*NET 31.0 Database (USDOL/ETA, CC BY 4.0); BLS Employment Projections · dataset 2026.10.8 · method e3-qualification-1.0.0
Work environment
How the typical conditions of this occupation compare with 911 occupations in O*NET (very low = the lowest fifth).
Levels are relative. Most occupations involve a lot of contact with people, for example, so “very low” can still mean regular contact; the last column shows what workers actually reported.
| Condition | Level | Compared with other occupations | Most common answer (O*NET survey) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contact with others | Very high | Higher on contact with others than 88% of occupations compared | 84% of surveyed respondents chose “Constant contact with others” |
| Dealing with the public | Very high | Higher on dealing with the public than 89% of occupations compared | 71% of surveyed respondents chose “Extremely important” |
| Teamwork | Moderate | Higher on teamwork than 56% of occupations compared | 68% of surveyed respondents chose “Extremely important” |
| Freedom to make decisions | Low | Lower on freedom to make decisions than 72% of occupations compared | 49% of surveyed respondents chose “Some freedom” |
| Time pressure | Very high | Higher on time pressure than 95% of occupations compared | 70% of surveyed respondents chose “Every day” |
| Conflict situations | High | Higher on conflict situations than 75% of occupations compared | 38% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a week or more but not every day” |
| Dealing with unpleasant or angry people | Moderate | Higher on dealing with unpleasant or angry people than 53% of occupations compared | 40% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a week or more but not every day” |
| Consequence of error | Moderate | Higher on consequence of error than 58% of occupations compared | 38% of surveyed respondents chose “Very serious” |
Work-pressure profile
- Time pressure: very high
- Conflict situations: high
- Dealing with unpleasant or angry people: moderate
- Consequence of error: moderate
Each part is shown on its own. There is no combined stress score, and conditions vary by employer and role.
Full answer distributions
Contact with others
- No contact with others: 0%
- Occasional contact with others: 0%
- Contact with others about half the time: 0%
- Contact with others most of the time: 15.58%
- Constant contact with others: 84.42%
n = 19, Incumbent 07/2014
Dealing with the public
- Not important at all: 0.77%
- Fairly important: 0%
- Important: 24.52%
- Very important: 4.15%
- Extremely important: 70.56%
n = 18, Incumbent 07/2014
Teamwork
- Not important at all: 10.65%
- Fairly important: 0.69%
- Important: 0%
- Very important: 20.21%
- Extremely important: 68.45%
n = 19, Incumbent 07/2014
Freedom to make decisions
- No freedom: 0.69%
- Very little freedom: 0%
- Limited freedom: 29.67%
- Some freedom: 49.42%
- A lot of freedom: 20.21%
n = 19, Incumbent 07/2014
Time pressure
- Never: 0%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 4.2%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 0%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 26.04%
- Every day: 69.76%
n = 19, Incumbent 07/2014
Conflict situations
- Never: 13.35%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 14.15%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 22.38%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 38.26%
- Every day: 11.86%
n = 19, Incumbent 07/2014
Dealing with unpleasant or angry people
- Never: 23.99%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 16.71%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 15.63%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 40.16%
- Every day: 3.5%
n = 19, Incumbent 07/2014
Consequence of error
- Not serious at all: 23.99%
- Fairly serious: 13.24%
- Serious: 4.98%
- Very serious: 38.02%
- Extremely serious: 19.76%
n = 19, Incumbent 07/2014
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