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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.
Among the careers AI is changing fastest: more resilient than 1% of the 831 careers we score. AI exposure is very high (the Bureau of Labor Statistics rates it very high), and US jobs are projected to change by -7.6% by 2035, expected to shrink.
AI can do many of the tasks, and hiring is expected to grow slower than average or to shrink. The job is likely to change, so build the human parts of it.
- Median pay (2025)
- $65,750
- Job growth to 2035
- -7.6%
- Openings a year
- 3,400
- People doing it (2025)
- 36,900
- Usual route in
- High school diploma, then moderate on-the-job training
Where people already use AI for this work
- Respond to customer problems or inquiries
- Prepare documentation for contracts, applications, or permits
- Communicate with others about operational plans or activities
From Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025).
Work AI rarely helps with
- Distribute materials, supplies, or resources
- Schedule operational activities
- Direct organizational operations, activities, or procedures
What the work looks like
- 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.
From O*NET 31.0, US Department of Labor.
What the Bureau of Labor Statistics expects
- Fewer of these jobs, as technology automates many tasks formerly performed by these workers, including document processing and data entry.
Careers using similar strengths, with a stronger outlook
- Correspondence clerksChanging shape, Index 3, -5.6%
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerksChanging shape, Index 2, -5.6%
- Information and record clerks, all otherChanging shape, Index 7, +0.8%
- Communications equipment operators, all otherChanging shape, Index 5, +1.0%
Also known as: Registered Sales Assistant, Sales Assistant, Sales Trader, Trading Assistant, Account Administrator, Client Associate, Client Service Associate, Operations Clerk.
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Sources: US Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections 2025 to 2035; O*NET 31.0; Microsoft Research (2025); Anthropic Economic Index (2026); Eloundou and colleagues (Science, 2024); Felten, Raj and Seamans (2023). How we score. Updated 12 October 2026.