Clerk - Career description, activities, functions and salary

How much does an Clerk earn

A Clerk earns between $1.119 and $5.667 per month, with an average monthly salary of $2.185 and a median salary of $1.600 according to an Averwage.com salary survey along with to data of professionals hired and fired by companies in the labor market.

Our research is based on the salaries of 11.164 professionals hired and dismissed by the period from 06/2021 to 05/2022 (last year).

Professional job categories

• Middle level technicians
• • medium level technicians in administrative sciences
• • • technicians of administrative sciences
• • • • servants of justice

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Main workplaces

Servants of Justice they work in registries. They are hired under the CLT regime, with a formal contract. They are organized as a team, under permanent supervision, working indoors during the day and, by appointment, at any time and day of the week. They are subject to exposure to contaminated dust from process papers, which can cause rhinitis and leptospirosis. The bailiff has special conditions of exercise, with occasional supervision, and may work in vehicles or in the open, subject to special situations, such as compliance with a warrant for the arrest of lawbreakers.

What does it take to work in the field of Servants of Justice

The educational requirements of these occupations are heterogeneous, with different criteria by region of the country or state of the federation. For the legal services assistant, at least elementary education is required with no previous experience required. A court clerk requires incomplete higher education and four to five years' professional experience in the area. For the extra-judicial clerk, a complete higher education course plus three to four years of experience is required. For other occupations, a high school diploma is required.

Functions and activities of Clerk

Servants of Justice must:

Activities

maintaining order during hearings;
perform judicial inspection and inspection;
manage books and guides;
register ordinances;
preparing judicial accounts;
provide certificates;
save movable and immovable property;
dispatch the auction and award letter;
note acts;
seal properties;
proceed with arrests and kidnappings;
record acts;
read judgments and other parts of the case file;
clarify stakeholders;
register protest suspension;
demonstrate agility in services;
play documents;
inform process progress;
developing a sharing outline;
dispatch sentence letters;
dispatch warrants and countermandates;
supervise the work routine;
following process phases;
cite the required part;
carrying out acts;
register writ loads;
dispatch transfers;
perform marriages out of use;
repossess possession;
register judicial deposits;
register distribution cancellation;
act impartially;
manage financial resources;
demonstrate document analysis ability;
notify interested parties;
referring to the courts;
maintain the functioning of the computer system;
distribute shares;
draw up deeds and other out-of-use acts;
search documents;
ensure document security;
proceed to separate bodies;
archive processes and other documents;
dispatch letters rogatory and rogatory;
apply cost tables;
register minutes of hearings;
controlling deadlines of the parties;
register attachments;
keep backups on different media;
dispatch public notices;
consult relevant legislation;
performing marriages;
advertising auctions and places;
recognise firms;
master the legal vocabulary;
perform search and seizure of persons and property;
communicate with parties;
register signatures;
computerize the document registry;
proceed with inquiries;
use computer resources;
demonstrate ability to verify the authenticity of documents;
register wills;
preparing statistical reports;
write the minutes of the hearing;
embargo new works;
dispatch rogatory and rogatory letters;
collect goods;
dress according to the rules;
seek technical improvement;
raise pledges;
keep legal secrecy when determined;
preach the parties and witnesses;
subpoena interested parties;
preparing statistical reports;
register previous deposits;
act ethically;
dispatch transfers;
sign deeds and other documents;
dispatch burial guides;
register processes and other acts;
perform marriages;
act with insight to resolve risky situations;
dispatch certificates;
return assets;
read sentences and other pieces of the case file;
proceed with listing of assets;
write deeds and public powers of attorney;
act with discretion;
act with civility;
dispatch birth, marriage and death certificates;
demonstrate punctuality and attendance;
perform arrests of persons and goods;
dispatch formal sharing;
register sentences;
proceed with evictions;
save evidence objects;
collect signatures of the parties and witnesses;
manage personnel;
submit proceedings;
register initial petitions;
send case to the courts;
dispatch the bidding and award letter;
keep records and books;
performing acts;
register car loads;
organize the courtroom;
dispatch letters;
register title protests;
acquire materials and equipment;
submit interested parties;
remove assets;
elaborate an appraisal report;
elaborate a sharing outline;
pledge goods and rights;
computerize document registration;
give publicity to the acts;
sort documents;
imitate in possession;
complete the determinations on time;
coercively conduct witnesses;
write incident report (bo);
register auction and adjudication;
dispatch negative and positive certificates of protests;
care for the physical integrity of the records and other documents;
carry out acts;
issue permits;
authenticate documents;
draw wills;
read sentences and other parts of the case file;
cite the required party;
monitoring process phases;
dispatch guides and guide letters;

Sectors that hire Clerk the most in the job market

• notaries
• attorney services
• other personal service activities
• auxiliary activities of justice
• general public administration
• cleaning activities
• combined office and administrative support services
• justice
• accounting activities
• non-life insurance