Families / Trade

Commercial Broker

Represents buyers and sellers in property or business transactions. Commission-only, relationship-heavy, cyclical.

Pay band (est.)
$55k–$250k
Time to competence
4 years
Licence
Required
Setting
mixed
Leverage
high
Place constraint
medium
Physical demand
20/100
Hours burden
70/100

Factor percentiles

Percentile against the whole curated set. Higher is better on that factor only.

  • Play7th

    Absorbing rather than merely paid.

  • Specific knowledge29th

    A combination of skills that is hard to copy.

  • Leverage86th

    Output that scales through code, media, capital or crew.

  • Demand30th

    Durability and shortage, scored conservatively.

  • Pay73th

    Mid-career floor and the range above it.

  • Body66th

    Inverse of physical demand and hours.

  • Autonomy77th

    Control of methods and time.

  • People fit14th

    Distance from your preferred people level.

  • Place flexibility63th

    Remote fit and freedom from specific metros.

  • Time to skill79th

    Inverse of years to competence.

  • Meaning load1th

    Care, craft and stewardship weight. Not a moral score.

  • Downside tolerance68th

    Inverse of named risk to body, market or platform.

Downside

No salary floor; a bad market year pays close to nothing.

Examine this against your weights

The percentiles above use the default weights. Set your own on the ranking and this vocation moves with them.

  • Place constraint is medium. Where you live is analysed at locationistics.com.
  • Hours burden is 70/100 and people intensity 88/100. Who you are with is analysed at relationistics.com.

Source note: BLS-style patterns; estimate. All figures are estimates for comparison.