Office and Administrative Support · Holland code CE

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.

Also called: Registered Sales Assistant, Sales Assistant, Sales Trader, Trading Assistant, Account Administrator, Client Associate, Client Service Associate, Operations Clerk.

O*NET 43-4011.00

At a glance

US median annual pay: $65,750; Middle half earn $58,620 to $79,800. BLS OEWS, May 2025.
Most common education: Bachelor's Degree; 38% of workers surveyed by O*NET report this level.
Preparation needed: Job Zone 3 of 5; Medium preparation. Zone 1 is little or none; zone 5 is graduate-level.

What the work involves

The tasks workers in this occupation rate as most important, from the O*NET survey.

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.
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.
Perform clerical tasks, such as answering phones or distributing mail.
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.

Skills and knowledge it leans on

Skills

Active Listening3.9 / 5
Speaking3.9 / 5
Reading Comprehension3.8 / 5
Critical Thinking3.4 / 5
Writing3.1 / 5
Monitoring3.1 / 5

Knowledge areas

English Language4.1 / 5
Customer and Personal Service3.8 / 5
Mathematics3.5 / 5
Computers and Electronics3.3 / 5
Economics and Accounting3.2 / 5
Administrative3.1 / 5

Importance ratings on O*NET’s 1 to 5 scale. Higher means the occupation depends on it more.

Who tends to enjoy it

How strongly this occupation draws on each of the six Holland interest types, which is the same profile the career interests test compares you against.

Realistic18
Investigative5
Artistic0
Social22
Enterprising59
Conventional99

The same work abroad

Other countries classify jobs differently, so these are the closest matches through the international ISCO-08 standard, not exact equivalents.

European occupation titles (ESCO)

securities underwriter · DE Underwriter im Börsenwesen/Underwriterin im Börsenwesen · FR preneur ferme en valeurs mobilières/preneuse ferme en valeurs mobilières
back office specialist · DE Back-Office-Mitarbeiter/Back-Office-Mitarbeiterin · FR agent de back-office/agente de back-office
financial markets back office administrator · DE Back-Office-Mitarbeiter im Maklergeschäft/Back-Office-Mitarbeiterin im Maklergeschäft · FR agent administratif back-office marché/agente administrative back-office marché
investment clerk · DE Sachbearbeiter im Investmentbereich/Sachbearbeiterin im Investmentbereich · FR assistant en investissements financiers/assistante en investissements financiers

Closest UK occupation groups (SOC 2020)

Pensions and insurance clerks and assistants (4132)65,200 employed
Finance officers (4124)44,900 employed
Brokers (3531)67,900 employed

Employment is the UK Annual Population Survey for April 2025 to March 2026, all workers in the group, which can be broader than this one occupation.

Pay across Europe, for the whole group

Median annual earnings of all employees in “Clerical support workers”. This is the broad ISCO group this occupation falls in, not the occupation itself, so treat it as context for the wage level, not as a salary for this job.

Median annual earnings, Clerical support workers, by country
Country	Median pay
Belgium	€40,035
Austria	€38,296
Germany	€37,844
Netherlands	€35,854
Sweden	€33,483
Ireland	€32,144
Italy	€29,311
France	€25,943
Spain	€22,026
Portugal	€12,602
Poland	€10,250

Eurostat Structure of Earnings Survey, businesses with ten or more employees outside public administration, in euro and not adjusted for the cost of living. Reference years differ between sources: the US, Japan and Europe figures on this page come from different survey years, so compare them as rough levels, not to the euro or yen.

Exposure to AI

This occupation sits in the higher third of the 774 occupations scored, with an exposure score of +1.14. The scores are standardized across those occupations, so 0 is the average and a score of 1 is about one standard deviation above it.

Our note on reading it: the dataset links AI applications to the abilities that occupations require, so the score reflects overlap between the two. It is a comparison between occupations, not a forecast about jobs. It does not say whether exposure means tasks are replaced or workers get more done with the tools, and it says little about one employer or one role.

Source: Felten, E., Raj, M., & Seamans, R. (2021). Occupational, industry, and geographic exposure to artificial intelligence: A novel dataset and its potential uses. Strategic Management Journal, 42(12), 2195-2217. Matched to this page by 6-digit SOC code (43-4011).

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