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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.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Correspond with customers and confer with coworkers to answer inquiries, discuss market fluctuations, or resolve account problems.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Document security transactions, such as purchases, sales, conversions, redemptions, or payments, using computers, accounting ledgers, or certificate records.People already use AI for this at work
- 03File, type, or operate standard office machines.AI could speed this up a lot
- 04Perform clerical tasks, such as answering phones or distributing mail.People already use AI for this at work
- 05Prepare forms, such as receipts, withdrawal orders, transmittal papers, or transfer confirmations, based on transaction requests from stockholders.AI could speed this up a lot
- 06Schedule and coordinate transfer and delivery of security certificates between companies, departments, and customers.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Monitor daily stock prices and compute fluctuations to determine the need for additional collateral to secure loans.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Verify ownership and transaction information and dividend distribution instructions to ensure conformance with governmental regulations, using stock records and reports.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Compute total holdings, dividends, interest, transfer taxes, brokerage fees, or commissions and allocate appropriate payments to customers.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Prepare reports summarizing daily transactions and earnings for individual customer accounts.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss17%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
77%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 97% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 49% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.