The Datum Report

Occupation 4136 · Administrative and secretarial occupations

Human resources administrative occupations

Half of full-time human resources administrative occupations in the UK earn more than £26,851 a year, and half earn less.

Human resources administrative occupations provide administrative support for the human resources (HR) operations within organisations.

How people enter it

There are no formal academic entry requirements, although some employers may require degree level qualifications and most entrants possess GCSE/S grades. Certification from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development is available, along with relevant NVQs/SVQs at various levels.

What the work involves

• supports senior HR staff in the development and implementation of HR and industrial relations policies
• arranges advertisements for jobs in the relevant media
• provides practical support for recruitment and selection procedures such as checking application forms, arranging interviews of candidates and ensuring the interview panel receive all relevant documentation
• provides administrative support for training courses, work placements etc
• implements and maintains HR records systems

Also called

Course administrator · Human resources administrator · Personnel administrator · Personnel clerk · Training administrator

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for human resources administrative occupations, 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. 9 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

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