Brokerage Clerks Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Read the ladder vertically: each row is the wage of the Brokerage Clerks worker at that point in the distribution, so $77,400 at the 75th percentile means three quarters of the occupation earns less. Figures BLS cannot publish appear as n/p, and its top code prints as $239,200+.

Employment and concentration

The occupation employed 40,090 people in May 2024, 0.03% of every job BLS counted. California is the largest employer at 6,000 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 36.1% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Delaware, whose location quotient of 3.91 says this work is 3.91 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $53,880 at the 25th percentile, $62,940 at the middle, $77,400 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $43,920, a ratio of 1.9 to 1. Where a specific job offer lands on that range says more about the role's level than the occupation's headline median does.

Pay by state

The state spread for Brokerage Clerks runs from the $85,480 median in District of Columbia down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in California (6,000 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Brokerage Clerks stands number 426 by employment and number 361 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Office and Administrative Support Occupations, the group median wage is $47,850 across 54 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 32% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.2% of the group's 18,218,060 jobs. In 15 of the 46 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $62,940, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 6,290 jobs, 15.7% of the national total. Below, the biggest employers come first; the pay table after it only counts metros with 500 or more jobs in the occupation, so its leader is a real market and not a statistical artifact.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $57,080 a year, against $85,390 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. Anyone relocating for this work should price the destination metro's table row, not the national median, before signing anything.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median Brokerage Clerks paycheck, gross, is $2,421 every two weeks on an annual $62,940, which is $5,245 a month and $1,210 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($53,880) to the 75th ($77,400) is worth $23,520 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Gross is a starting point, not a budget: the paycheck calculator nets it down by state, an offer comparison lives in the salary calculator, and the raise vs inflation calculator separates a real raise from a nominal one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $69,234 would sit between the median ($62,940) and the 75th percentile ($77,400), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $53,880, is $9,060 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Compare the ladder above with the closest relatives in the survey: First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers, Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks, Receptionists and Information Clerks, Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks, Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants. The Careers hub carries the whole branch, group by group.