How to become an office clerk
Official title: Office clerk
Also called: Administrative assistant, Administrative support assistant, Clerical assistant, Copying clerk, Corporate support officer, Document examiner, Filing clerk, General office clerk, Office support assistant, Registry clerk, Copying clerk, Filing clerk
Office clerk performs office clerical duties that require knowledge of office systems and procedures. He/she completes clerical duties assigned which may include a combination of answering telephones, bookkeeping, typing or word processing, office machine operation, maintaining and updating filing, inventory, mailing and database systems.
Main tasks
- Recording, preparing, sorting, classifying and filing information
- Keeping address and mailing lists
- Sorting, opening and sending mail
- Photocopying and faxing documents
- Preparing reports and correspondence of a routine nature
- Recording issue of equipment to staff
- Responding to telephone or electronic enquiries or forwarding to appropriate person
- Checking figures, preparing invoices and recording details of financial transactions made
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Median pay: $21,864 a year. The middle half earn $17,040 to $36,600 a year.
- Generative AI could change some tasks in this job, by the ILO's global estimate.
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Questions people ask
How much does an office clerk earn in Singapore?
Median full-time pay is $21,864 a year (Ministry of Manpower (via data.gov.sg)). The middle half earn $17,040 to $36,600.
Will AI change the work of an office clerk?
Generative AI could change some tasks in this job, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- Ministry of Manpower (via data.gov.sg): Resident Occupational Wages (Occupational Wage Survey) (June 2024 (data.gov.sg update 2026-04-01)), Singapore Open Data Licence v1.0, 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