Are Administrative Professionals Holding Out For A Larger Salary?
The survey did not specify the industry or positions held by those individuals participating. My guess is that this wasn't inclusive to administrative professionals. The more I thought about it, the more I realized many administrative professionals have taken paycuts over the course of their career. Don't get me wrong, I know that there are some administrative professionals earning high salaries ($70K & up). But, on average an Executive Assistant or Sr. Level Admin is earning $42K a year, according to the 2008 U.S. Labor Department of Labor.
The administrative professional serves many roles with an organization. They are privy to highly confidential and sensitive information. The very same information that only management and human resources can access. Administrative professionals are the only individuals (except for sr. level management and human resources) that can define every department within an organization. These are also the individuals that manage the many hats of an executives life, including their personal life. Administrative professionals are assumed to be one of the most trustworthy individual in an organization.
Yet, when companies begin to downsize, admins are often included in the first round of layoffs. Those that are fortunate enough to remain employed are distributed the workload of the staff that was let go. A pay raise is rare when the workload has increased. But, those that do receive an increase in salary or an increase in their annual bonus, it rarely puts them in the 90% percentile of admins averaging $62K per year.
When will corporations begin to acknowledge the value of their administrative professionals by providing salaries that match contributions to the company and the executives they support?
I look forward to the year when administrative salaries will reflect their contributions to the organizations they support.
Posted by Laura Finney at September 29, 2009 
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Categories: General
Tags: Cover Letters Office Stress Job Search Resumes Manage Stress Administrative Professionals Executive Assistants UnFair Pay How to find a Job Administrative Assistants Administrative Administrative Career Development Resume Help Professional Development Administrative Jobs
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