Personal assistants and other secretaries
£32,329
Average salary
36 hours
Average weekly hours
2.68%
Unemployment rate
Definition: Personal assistants and other secretaries
*SOC Code (Standard Occupational Classification): 4215
Personal assistants and other secretaries provide administrative and secretarial support to individuals, departmental or management teams within organisations.
Common tasks include:
- acts as a first point of contact for a manager or team with colleagues and people from outside organisations, fields telephone enquiries, takes and passes on messages
- arranges appointments, keeps business diary, organises travel arrangements, makes reservations and organises a variety of functions
- opens, sorts, distributes and files correspondence (in hard copy and electronic) and deals directly with routine correspondence
- uses appropriate software to produce correspondence, memoranda, reports, presentations and other documents from drafts, handwritten copy or by transcribing dictation
- arranges and attends meetings, takes minutes and prepares records of proceedings
- translates documents and liaises with overseas clients and suppliers
Qualifications
There are no minimum academic requirements, although entry to professional secretarial courses typically requires GCSEs/S grades. NVQs/SVQs are available in Administration at Levels 2, 3 and 4.
*Introduced in 1990, SOC is a multi-purpose common classification of occupations in UK. Jobs are defined in terms of skill level and skill content, including qualifications, training and work experience.
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Alternative & related job titles: Personal assistants and other secretaries
Executive assistant PA-secretary Personal assistant Personal secretary Secretary
Equality focus: Personal assistants and other secretaries
Breaking down the official government big data sources by gender, age and region. Hours and pay data based on full time equlivalent roles.
Breakdown by gender
£31,807
Female average annual salary
£32,850
Male average annual salary
36
Female average weekly hours
41
Male average weekly hours
Average pay per hour: Personal assistants and other secretaries
Workforce gender: Personal assistants and other secretaries
Breakdown by region
£35,979
South East (England) - highest annual average salary
£29,721
North East (England) - lowest annual average salary
39
Wales - Highest average weekly hours
30
Northern Ireland - Lowest average weekly hours
Average pay per week (£): Personal assistants and other secretaries
Average weekly hours by UK region/nation: Personal assistants and other secretaries
Breakdown by age
20 years
Lowest annual salary (£10,429)
years
Highest annual salary (£0) at this age