At a brokerage, financial-data operation, or trading firm, you check market quotations against source data — verifying price quotes for accuracy, supporting the quality of market data that drives trade execution, customer pricing, and reporting.
The work runs through market-data systems with reference data alongside — pulling current quotations, verifying against source feeds, identifying discrepancies, escalating issues that affect downstream operations. You're often the operational hand on data-quality for prices that drive trade execution and client reporting. Data-accuracy scoring and exception-resolution time drive performance.
The friction tends to be the consequence asymmetry on small data errors — wrong quotations affect trade pricing, customer statements, and reporting accuracy. Variance across employers is wide: at major financial-data firms (Bloomberg, Refinitiv) the work runs structured with deep automation and human-quality checking; at brokerages and trading firms it tends to be more operationally embedded.
Checkers who thrive tend to carry detail-orientation, calm under cycle deadlines, and market-data fluency. SIE and financial-operations credentials anchor advancement. The trade-off is the screen-time intensity and the back-office invisibility of data-quality work — visible mainly when discrepancies cause downstream issues.
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View all Admin & Office roles →At a brokerage, financial-data operation, or trading firm, you check market quotations against source data — verifying price quotes for accuracy, supporting the quality of market data that drives trade execution, customer pricing, and reporting.
Median pay for a Quotation Checker is about $63K nationally, with the field ranging roughly from $48K to $92K depending on experience, employer, and metro (BLS).
Core skills for this role include Active Listening, Speaking, Reading Comprehension, Time Management, and Critical Thinking.
Most people in this role hold a bachelor's degree.
Employment in this field is projected to decline about 9.5% through 2034, with roughly 40,090 people working in it today (BLS).
Closely related roles include Brokerage Operations Representative (Brokerage Operations Rep), Registered Client Services Associate, and Brokerage Agent.
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