Pa secretary average salary | UK Salary Information

Personal assistants and other secretaries

£30,224

£18,185

£27,639

£44,232

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Personal assistants and other secretaries provide administrative and secretarial support to individuals, departmental or management teams within organisations.

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.

Entry requirements

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.