How to become a company secretaries and administrator

Official title: Company secretaries and administrators

Also called: Club secretary, Sports secretary, Company secretary, Resident secretary, Assistant secretary, Company administrator, Corporation secretary

Company secretaries (excluding professional/chartered company secretaries) file and maintain company records, translate notes and dictation into typewritten form and perform other clerical tasks within commercial organisations.

Main tasks

• Opens, sorts, distributes and files correspondence (both hard copy and electronic)
• Uses appropriate software to produce correspondence, memoranda, reports, presentations and other documents from drafts, handwritten copy or by transcribing dictation
• Deals directly with routine correspondence
• Files and retrieves documents, sets up and maintains filing systems and reproduces copies of documentation as required
• Keeps appointments diary, makes travel arrangements and arranges conference and other functions
• Arranges meetings, circulates agenda and other meeting documents, attends meetings, and takes and prepares minutes
• Answers, screens, handles and directs telephone requests and enquiries, takes messages and forwards to the appropriate member of staff
• Undertakes reception responsibilities by greeting visitors and arranging refreshments

How to become one

There are no minimum academic requirements, although entrants to professional secretarial courses typically require GCSEs/S grades. NVQs/SVQs in Administration are available at levels 2, 3 and 4.

Pay · Outlook

• Median full-time pay: £35,251 a year
• About 29,200 people work in this job now, and about 23,600 are projected by 2035. (-19.4%)

Related jobs

• Personal assistants and other secretaries
• Medical secretaries
• Legal secretaries
• School secretaries
• Receptionists
• Typists and related keyboard occupations

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Questions people ask

How do I become a company secretaries and administrator?

There are no minimum academic requirements, although entrants to professional secretarial courses typically require GCSEs/S grades. NVQs/SVQs in Administration are available at levels 2, 3 and 4.

How much does a company secretaries and administrator earn in the UK?

Median full-time pay is £35,251 a year (Office for National Statistics).

Is a company secretaries and administrator a growing career in the UK?

Employment is projected to fall 19% by 2035, from about 29,200 to about 23,600 people (Department for Education).

Do you need a degree to become a company secretaries and administrator?

Not always. 34% of people in this job hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

Sources

• Office for National Statistics: Annual Population Survey: employment by occupation (April 2025 to March 2026), OGL v3.0, retrieved 2026-10-03
• Office for National Statistics: SOC 2020 Volume 1: structure and descriptions (2026-08-27 edition), OGL v3.0, retrieved 2026-10-03
• Department for Education: Skills Imperative 2035: employment projections by occupation (2021 to 2035 (Warwick IER / Cambridge Econometrics)), OGL v3.0, retrieved 2026-10-03
• Office for National Statistics: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Table 14 (2025 provisional), OGL v3.0, retrieved 2026-10-03

Updated 2026-10-03