Clerical support workers not elsewhere classified: how to get into this work

Also called: Advertising clerk, Correspondence clerk, Directory compiler, Press clipper, Publication clerk

This unit group covers clerical support workers not classified elsewhere in Major Group 4: Clerical Support Workers. For instance, the group includes correspondence clerks, press clippers and publication clerks.

Main tasks

• Receiving customers’ orders for classified advertising, writing and editing copy, calculating advertising rates and billing customers
• Writing business and government correspondence such as replies to requests for information and assistance, damage claims, credit and billing inquiries and service complaints
• Assisting in the preparation of periodicals, advertisements, catalogues, directories and other material for publication
• Reading newspapers, magazines, press releases and other publications to locate and file articles of interest to staff and clients

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

• Median pay: HK$19,600 a month
• About 455,200 people in 2025, and about 412,000 projected by 2028. (-9.5%)
• Generative AI could change many tasks in this job, which usually reshapes the work more than it replaces it, by the ILO's global estimate.

Related jobs

• Scribes and related workers
• Coding, proof-reading and related clerks
• Personnel clerks
• Filing and copying clerks
• Library clerks
• Mail carriers and sorting clerks

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Questions people ask

Clerical support workers not elsewhere classified: do you need a degree for this work?

Not always. 35% of people in this job hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

Clerical support workers not elsewhere classified: will AI change this work?

Generative AI could change many tasks in this job, which usually reshapes the work more than it replaces it, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

• Census and Statistics Department (2021 Population Census): 2021 Population Census, Interactive Data Dissemination Service: working population by occupation (38 groups) and sex, age, education, income; median income and field of education (9 groups) (2021 Population Census), retrieved 4 October 2026
• Census and Statistics Department (General Household Survey): Median monthly employment earnings by occupation (9 groups), excluding foreign domestic helpers (Table 210-06317A); employed persons by occupation, age and sex (210-06307A) and by industry (210-06308A) (2025 annual (series to 2026-07)), retrieved 4 October 2026
• Census and Statistics Department (Annual Earnings and Hours Survey): Monthly and hourly wage percentiles by occupational group (5 groups) (Tables 220-23014, 220-23024, 220-23003) (2025 (May to June 2025), released 2026-03-23), retrieved 4 October 2026
• Labour and Welfare Bureau; tables published by C&SD: Mid-term Update of Manpower Projection to 2028: supplementary statistical tables (5 occupation groups, 17 selected industries) (2025 to 2028 (published 2026-09)), retrieved 4 October 2026
• International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Updated 4 October 2026