Personal assistants and other secretaries Pay Data UK — 2025

Personal assistants and other secretaries roles in the UK earn a median of £34,710 per year, equivalent to £17.48 per hour as of 2025. This represents a 3.3% increase in annual pay compared to the previous year. Pay varies across the UK, ranging from £26,173 to £63,793 per year.

How Pay Varies Across the UK

Each bar shows how many areas of the UK have a median annual pay in that range for Personal assistants and other secretaries roles. The dashed line marks the national median.

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About Personal assistants and other secretaries

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

Typical Tasks and Duties

• 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 Routes and Qualifications

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.

Related Occupations

Salary data is sourced from official UK pay datasets and updated periodically.