The Datum Report

Occupation 4159 · Administrative and secretarial occupations

Other administrative occupations n.e.c.

Half of full-time other administrative occupations n.e.c. in the UK earn more than £28,294 a year, and half earn less.

Job holders in this unit group are responsible for recording, filing and disseminating information for a business, organisation or individual not elsewhere classified in minor group 415: Other administrative occupations

How people enter it

There are no minimum academic requirements, although entrants usually possess GCSEs/S grades. Training is usually provided on-the-job. NVQs/ SVQs in Administration are available at levels 2 and 3.

What the work involves

• stores information by filling in forms, writing notes and filing records
• types reports, memos, notes, minutes and other documents
• receives and distributes incoming and outgoing correspondence
• checks figures, prepares invoices and records details of financial transactions made

Also called

Administrator · Administrative assistant · Clerical assistant · Clerk · Facilities coordinator · Office assistant · Proof reader

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for other administrative occupations n.e.c., 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. 11 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

Data entry administrators · Sales administrators