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Office and Administrative Support

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: Account Administrator, Client Associate, Client Service Associate, Operations Clerk, Operations Coordinator, Registered Account Administrator

Median pay in Greater Boston
$64,000
$30.77/hr
Jobs in Greater Boston
760
Massachusetts 2024–2034
−12.6%
90 openings a year
Typical U.S. entry requirement
High school diploma or equivalent
plus Moderate-term on-the-job training

Greater Boston: Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area, May 2025. Growth and openings: Massachusetts statewide projection.

Pay range in Greater Boston

Yearly pay in Greater Boston by percentile
10th25thMedian75th90th
$57,750$61,310$64,000$78,410$95,980

10% of workers earn less than the first figure and 10% earn more than the last.

What you’d do

  • 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.

AI and this job

AI exposure: how much of this job’s work AI tools can do or help with, based on national research. It is not a forecast of job loss.

Higher exposure84 of 100

The index averages three national research measures, each shown as a percentile of all jobs:

  • AIOE 78
  • Language-model AIOE 75
  • GPTs-are-GPTs 100

Observed AI use today: Substantial (Anthropic Economic Index)

AI exposure for brokerage clerks is higher, and observed AI use is substantial. AI tools can help with document processing, data entry, and preparing forms and transaction records, and federal projections expect technology to take over many of these tasks. Talking with customers about account problems and market changes relies more on people. Massachusetts is projected to have fewer of these jobs, so planning a move early is wise.

Likely to change

  • Documenting securities transactions
  • Preparing forms, receipts, and confirmations

Still relies on people

  • Resolving account problems with customers
  • Talking through market changes with clients

What federal projections say

“Productivity change - share decreases as technology automates many tasks formerly performed by these workers, including document processing and data entry.”
BLS Employment Projections 2025–35, factors affecting this job (U.S.)

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Training near Boston

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