As a stockbroker, Taylor worked for the Charles Edey brokerage beginning in 1914, and moved to Fenner &amp; Beane and other firms. She became manager of a branch office of Harris, Irby &amp; Vose in 1928, and is said to have been the first woman to manage a brokerage office in New York City. Her office employed only women, and managed only women's accounts. She was in that position during the Wall Street Crash of 1929, and declared herself proud of the women in her office during that devastation: "Not one tear did I see during all the time the market was at its worst," she later recalled. "No crowd of men under pressure ever could show up as better sports." In 1931 she moved to Greer, Crane &amp; Webb, and then in 1941 to Carey, Joost &amp; Patrick. She retired from this last firm in 1947.