administrative assistant
Administrative assistants provide administrative and office support for supervisors. They perform a variety of tasks, such as answering telephone calls, receiving and directing visitors, ordering office supplies, maintaining the office facilities running smoothly, and ensuring that equipment and appliances work properly.
administrative assistant administrative assistants provide administrative and office support for supervisors. The role shows moderate AI exposure (0.50 on a 0-1 scale) — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. The most in-demand skills for the role include company policies, use spreadsheets software, disseminate internal communications, maintain internal communication systems, file documents.
Pay in the UK
UK: median £34,954 a year for Personal assistants and other secretaries (ONS ASHE 2025, full-time)
Middle half of full-time jobs: £28,565 to £43,903 a year
UK jobs are grouped differently; this is the closest UK occupation group (ONS SOC 2020 4215). ONS rates this estimate precise. 2025 provisional figures; ONS revises them a year later. Source: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (Open Government Licence)
Pay in India (occupation group)
Average monthly earnings of salaried employees in the occupation group “Clerical support workers” in India, from the Government of India's Periodic Labour Force Survey (January–December 2025). It covers everyone in this group, not only administrative assistant, and it is not US pay converted to rupees.
Source: MoSPI (Government of India), Periodic Labour Force Survey Annual Report 2025, Table 51 — average wage/salary earnings of regular wage/salaried employees, NCO-2015 division 4. Official India data gives one average per occupation group: there are no official India figures for single careers, experience levels or cities. Read the report
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Frequently asked questions
What does administrative assistant do?
Administrative assistants provide administrative and office support for supervisors. They perform a variety of tasks, such as answering telephone calls, receiving and directing visitors, ordering office supplies, maintaining the office facilities running smoothly, and ensuring that equipment and appliances work properly.
What skills does administrative assistant need?
The most in-demand skills for this role include company policies, use spreadsheets software, disseminate internal communications, maintain internal communication systems, file documents, organise business documents. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.
Will AI replace administrative assistant?
Our AI-durability model gives administrative assistant a score of 0.50 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.