AI Stole My Job

Will AI replace Brokerage Clerks?

Estimated risk score: 92 out of 100

Very high replacement risk

Estimate from published task research, not reviewed by a person · how we estimate

Within about 19 points for 4 in 5 of the jobs we checked (73 to 100).

Low confidence: only 10 of its tasks are rated.

For the occupation as a whole, from ratings of its 10 O*NET tasks published in 2023 and calibrated to our hand scores. A specialty inside it can sit higher or lower.

O*NET-SOC 43-4011.00 · Office and Administrative Support

Tasks rated in 2023 as ones AI could do or speed up

Tasks a GPT-4-class model could do, or do in half the time or less: 10 of its 10 rated tasks; the first 6 are shown. In O*NET’s words.

  1. Document security transactions, such as purchases, sales, conversions, redemptions, or payments, using computers, accounting ledgers, or certificate records.
  2. File, type, or operate standard office machines.
  3. Perform clerical tasks, such as answering phones or distributing mail.
  4. Prepare forms, such as receipts, withdrawal orders, transmittal papers, or transfer confirmations, based on transaction requests from stockholders.
  5. Correspond with customers and confer with coworkers to answer inquiries, discuss market fluctuations, or resolve account problems.
  6. Compute total holdings, dividends, interest, transfer taxes, brokerage fees, or commissions and allocate appropriate payments to customers.

Tasks rated in 2023 as not sped up by AI

Tasks such a model was rated as not speeding up or taking over: 0 of its 10 rated tasks. In O*NET’s words.

None of its rated tasks.

What the job is

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: Sales Trader, Trading Assistant, Registered Sales Assistant, OTC Clerk, Dividend Clerk, Support Broker, Transfer Agent, Transfer Clerk.

Closest jobs we score by hand

In the same field (Office and Administrative Support). Different jobs, each scored by a person.

Source. This site includes information from the O*NET 30.1 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications. (O*NET, CC BY 4.0.) Task ratings: Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock (2023), “GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models”, data used under the MIT licence (licence texts). Our change: we averaged the ratings over this occupation’s tasks and calibrated them to our 0–100 scale. It is not a prediction about any one person and not career advice. Disagree? Write to hello@yourstopwashit.com. How we estimate