Occupation / job
Brokerage Clerks
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
At $65,750 against a $50,020 midpoint, Brokerage Clerks pays $15,730 a year more than the typical American job — $7.56 an hour. Nothing pays that much more for free, and the thing it is paid for is what you should be reading about.
35,940 people do this work nationally. That is the size at which Brokerage Clerks becomes a career rather than a post — enough employers in a normal city that leaving one of them is a decision rather than a crisis.
This work suits people who can hold a record straight and a caller calm at the same time, which is a harder combination than the pay suggests.
We carry no verified training length for Brokerage Clerks — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
A quarter of Brokerage Clerks earn under $58,620 and a quarter over $79,800 — 1.4x, or $21,180 apart. Narrow spreads usually mean a pay schedule, which is stability bought at the price of upside.
At $58,620, or $28.18 an hour, the 25th percentile sits $8,600 above the $50,020 the typical American job pays. Occupations with floors this high almost always have a requirement holding them there.
Avoid it if absorbing other people’s frustration all day would wear you down; that is the substance of the role.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 35,940 is a headcount of the employed, which is a numerator without a denominator — everyone who qualified and never got hired is missing from it, and we will not estimate them to complete a percentage.
What the spread tells you
$58,620 to $79,800 is a 1.4x range. Ranges this tight usually mean the employer set is homogeneous — the same kind of organisation paying the same kind of scale — so the lever you have is geography rather than employer.
The middle half of this field earns between $58,620 and $79,800. That is $21,180 of range, with $65,750 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
Between $58,620 and $79,800 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $65,750. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $14,050; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $21,180.
From $65,750 the drop to $58,620 is $7,130 and the climb to $79,800 is $14,050. When the upper half of the range is that much longer, the average is pulled well above the median — which is exactly why this site publishes the median.
Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $28.18 at the bottom quarter, $31.61 at the midpoint, $38.36 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.
What these figures are, and what they are not
The $65,750 figure is what employers pay employees. It is before tax and before deductions, it excludes the self-employed entirely, and it says nothing about anyone who does this work on their own account.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Brokerage Clerks, the hourly figure is $65,750 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
How this is calculated · Self-employment failure rates · What credentials cost and pay back · Look up something else