Administrative fellow vs administrative staff

The differences between administrative fellows and administrative staff can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. While it typically takes 4-6 years to become an administrative fellow, becoming an administrative staff takes usually requires 1-2 years. Additionally, an administrative staff has an average salary of $77,101, which is higher than the $57,253 average annual salary of an administrative fellow.

The top three skills for an administrative fellow include patients, fellowship program and healthcare administration. The most important skills for an administrative staff are telephone calls, word processing, and travel arrangements.

Administrative fellow vs administrative staff overview

	Administrative Fellow	Administrative Staff
Yearly salary	$57,253	$77,101
Hourly rate	$27.53	$37.07
Growth rate	28%	-8%
Number of jobs	39,417	119,030
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 60%	Bachelor's Degree, 63%
Average age	47	50
Years of experience	6	2

What does an administrative fellow do?

An Administrative Fellow is a person that leads a team to accomplish tasks in a particular project. The administrative fellow has an essential part in developing and analyzing projects and will offer suggestions to enhance the project. It is also the responsibility of the executive fellow to understand trends and correctly understand customer feedback. The administrative fellow's main goal is to ensure projects and products are created with the best in mind.

What does an administrative staff do?

As the administrative staff, they primarily provide administrative and secretarial support for the department. Typically, they do report-writing, filing and scheduling, and payroll. They plan department weekly meetings, schedule conference calls, and work on solving administrative related concerns and issues. They do a complex task that involves multi-tasking from the preparation of department reports, analyzing data, and finding solutions. It is a requirement to be an experienced, collaborator, and trained cross-functional communicator. Moreover, other duties will include scheduling company-initiated activities, meetings, and events.

Administrative fellow vs administrative staff salary

Administrative fellows and administrative staff have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Administrative Fellow	Administrative Staff
Average salary	$57,253	$77,101
Salary range	Between $42,000 And $78,000	Between $58,000 And $101,000
Highest paying City	Galveston, TX	San Francisco, CA
Highest paying state	Delaware	California
Best paying company	University Hospitals	NVIDIA
Best paying industry	Health Care	Professional

Differences between administrative fellow and administrative staff education

There are a few differences between an administrative fellow and an administrative staff in terms of educational background:

	Administrative Fellow	Administrative Staff
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 60%	Bachelor's Degree, 63%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	University of Pennsylvania	University of Pennsylvania

Administrative fellow vs administrative staff demographics

Here are the differences between administrative fellows' and administrative staff' demographics:

	Administrative Fellow	Administrative Staff
Average age	47	50
Gender ratio	Male, 51.3% Female, 48.7%	Male, 31.9% Female, 68.1%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 11.7% Unknown, 4.3% Hispanic or Latino, 14.4% Asian, 8.1% White, 60.8% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.7%	Black or African American, 9.2% Unknown, 3.9% Hispanic or Latino, 16.2% Asian, 3.8% White, 66.2% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.7%
LGBT Percentage	12%	6%

Differences between administrative fellow and administrative staff duties and responsibilities

Administrative fellow example responsibilities.

Experience working with manage care, Medicaid and capitate programs.
Orchestrate special events and reservations; manage customer relations and provide exemplary service to all customers.
Develop, implement and maintain an audit of cost versus revenue for a satellite diagnostic radiology center.
Facilitate conversion of office base surgery practice to hospital base clinic.
Assist executive director with administrative management of services -oncology, imaging & surgery.
Provide cloud base customer relationship management with Salesforce for optimization in coordination of the workforce development program and other community orient events

Administrative staff example responsibilities.

Support medical doctors, manage sensitive and confidential records pertaining to high risk patients with emphasis on accuracy.
Prepare PowerPoint presentations for management distribution.
Maintain payroll information by collect, calculate and enter data.
Prepare briefing slides and presentation material using PowerPoint and Visio.
Maintain accounting statements, databases, and other financial information such as payroll coding and budget preparation
Provide cloud base customer relationship management with Salesforce for optimization in coordination of the workforce development program and other community orient events

Administrative fellow vs administrative staff skills

Common administrative fellow skills

Patients, 12%
Fellowship Program, 8%
Healthcare Administration, 8%
Health System, 7%
Process Improvement, 6%
Patient Care, 6%

Common administrative staff skills

Telephone Calls, 19%
Word Processing, 16%
Travel Arrangements, 7%
Payroll, 6%
Personnel Actions, 6%
Financial Reports, 5%

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Updated January 8, 2025

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