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Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive

SOC 43-6014 · 2024-2034

Perform routine administrative functions such as drafting correspondence, scheduling appointments, organizing and maintaining paper and electronic files, or providing information to callers.

How the U.S. Department of Labor describes this work. Published in English only.

The job this trains for

Typical pay in California
$56,711per year
Projected openings
182,240
Projected change
+1.4%
Usually needs
High school diploma or equivalent

Bright Outlook — a U.S. Department of Labor designation
Numerous Job Openings

The Department's own designation, made from its national projections. It is not this project's assessment and it is not California's: every other figure on this page comes from California's projection, which can point the other way and for some occupations does.

Skills this work uses most

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, rates how important each of these is to this work, and they are listed in that order, most important first. The ratings themselves are not shown, because the data carries the number without the scale it was measured on. The names are as published, in English.

  1. Speaking
  2. Active Listening
  3. Reading Comprehension
  4. Writing
  5. Time Management
  6. Service Orientation

Pay by region

RegionTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openings
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties)$62,50810,240
San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties)$61,99010,060
Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties)$61,50411,730
San Rafael MD (Marin County)$60,4571,330
Napa MSA (Napa County)$57,911780
Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County)$56,6751,400
Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County)$56,5622,310
Vallejo MSA (Solano County)$56,0931,500
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County)$54,7242,390
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County)$54,18217,740
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County)$53,12054,230
Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County)$53,06218,710
North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties)$52,4971,250
Visalia MSA (Tulare County)$52,2721,670
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties)$52,26210,240
Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County)$52,2523,080
San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County)$52,0061,380
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County)$51,9453,670
Hanford-Corcoran MSA (Kings County)$51,935350
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties)$51,37315,930
North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties)$50,8831,270
Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties)$50,852740
Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County)$50,7703,390
Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties)$50,014800
El Centro MSA (Imperial County)$49,769640
Chico MSA (Butte County)$49,698790
Merced MSA (Merced County)$49,381780
Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County)$49,3812,230
Redding MSA (Shasta County)$48,972780
Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties)$48,9114,510

Similar work

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, names these as occupations involving work similar to this one — its own reading of the job, not a grouping by code. They keep O*NET's order, and only those California publishes a projection for are shown.

The job this trains forTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openingsProjected change
Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants$91,10662,570+1.3%
Administrative Services Managers$110,71737,770+7.1%
Office Clerks, General$49,607356,700-4.5%
Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants$64,34736,2500%
Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants$55,779128,130+12.6%
Receptionists and Information Clerks$45,143112,320+5.3%

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