The Datum Report

Occupation 4113 · Administrative and secretarial occupations

Officers of non-governmental organisations

Half of full-time officers of non-governmental organisations in the UK earn more than £31,008 a year, and half earn less.

Officers of non-governmental organisations perform a variety of administrative and clerical tasks in the running of trade associations, employers’ associations, learned societies, trade unions, charitable organisations and similar bodies.

How people enter it

Some roles may require GCSEs/S and pre-entry experience is usually necessary. Some organisations only employ their own members, although evidence of related work within pressure groups, the voluntary sector, trade unions or other organisations is generally sufficient.

What the work involves

• maintains and updates records of membership details, subscription fees, mailing lists, etc.
• circulates and reports information of relevance to members and interested parties
• arranges meetings, conferences and other events and circulates agenda and other relevant material
• receives and responds to written correspondence and telephone enquiries from members and other organisations
• assists with fund raising activities within a specified geographical area
• prepares and provides measures of organisational activity for senior officials

Also called

Administrator (charitable organisation) · Clerk to school governors · Organiser (trade union) · Secretary (research association) · Trade union official

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for officers of non-governmental organisations, full-time employees, 2023 to 2025. Each point is that year's ASHE April snapshot as published — revisions are not backfilled into earlier years, and a year ONS withheld is a gap rather than a joined line.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Year-on-year change

The change from each year to the next, in per cent, computed from the figures in the chart above — so the two cannot disagree.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Pay by region

Median gross annual pay for full-time employees, ranked, against the UK figure. 0 of 11 regions are published: ONS withholds a cell where the survey sample cannot support it, and those are shown as gaps rather than dropped — an absent region is not a region without the work in it.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Period 2025. Table

Every regional figure

ONS does not publish occupational pay below region. Cells the survey could not support are shown as withheld, with its reason — adding a region split to a specific occupation leaves roughly a tenth of cells publishable.

Common questions

Classified alongside this

Local government administrative occupations · National government administrative occupations