Brokerage Clerks

Finance
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.

What a brokerage clerk does

Become a brokerage clerk

If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good brokerage clerk

  • Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
  • Talking to others.
  • Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.

Discover what you could earn in Washington

  • Average hourly rate is $27 per hour with an average salary of $56,700 per year.
  • Half of workers earn between $23 and $29 per hour.
  • Half of workers earn an annual salary between $48,800 and $61,300 per year.

Brokerage Clerk job outlook

  • There are 677 workers in this occupation in Washington.
  • There are 67 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.

Growth rate by year

Education needed

Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree.

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