City secretary vs management assistant

The differences between city secretaries and management assistants can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 1-2 years to become both a city secretary and a management assistant. Additionally, a city secretary has an average salary of $53,028, which is higher than the $44,020 average annual salary of a management assistant.

The top three skills for a city secretary include meeting agendas, customer service and city ordinances. The most important skills for a management assistant are patients, word processing, and customer satisfaction.

City secretary vs management assistant overview

	City Secretary	Management Assistant
Yearly salary	$53,028	$44,020
Hourly rate	$25.49	$21.16
Growth rate	-8%	-8%
Number of jobs	11,818	107,324
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 40%	Bachelor's Degree, 68%
Average age	50	50
Years of experience	2	2

City secretary vs management assistant salary

City secretaries and management assistants have different pay scales, as shown below.

	City Secretary	Management Assistant
Average salary	$53,028	$44,020
Salary range	Between $29,000 And $93,000	Between $30,000 And $62,000
Highest paying City	-	San Francisco, CA
Highest paying state	-	Hawaii
Best paying company	-	Nokia
Best paying industry	-	Health Care

Differences between city secretary and management assistant education

There are a few differences between a city secretary and a management assistant in terms of educational background:

	City Secretary	Management Assistant
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 40%	Bachelor's Degree, 68%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	University of Pennsylvania	Western Carolina University

City secretary vs management assistant demographics

Here are the differences between city secretaries' and management assistants' demographics:

	City Secretary	Management Assistant
Average age	50	50
Gender ratio	Male, 7.0% Female, 93.0%	Male, 41.7% Female, 58.3%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 9.1% Unknown, 3.9% Hispanic or Latino, 16.0% Asian, 3.8% White, 66.4% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.7%	Black or African American, 9.3% Unknown, 3.9% Hispanic or Latino, 16.3% Asian, 3.8% White, 65.9% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.7%
LGBT Percentage	6%	6%

Differences between city secretary and management assistant duties and responsibilities

City secretary example responsibilities.

Scan and manage documents on Laserfiche.
Serve as a notary and administer oaths of office.
Prepare discharges, enter all updates into OASAS system and review patient information to verify patients eligibility to receive transportation reimbursement.
Initiate and monitor requisitions through PeopleSoft for office supplies, laboratory supplies including purchasing lab animals for research and travel reimbursement.

Management assistant example responsibilities.

Manage the operations for FOH and BOH facilities.
Develop management and leadership principles while managing, training, and motivating employees in fast-pace, high-volume sales/customer service business.
Work with HQ in resolving payroll, personnel, performance, conduct, EEO, congressional, and legal issues.
Used QuickBooks to facilitate small business accounting.
Receive and process visit requests through JPAS.
Start as cashier, learned the register POS system.

City secretary vs management assistant skills

Common city secretary skills

Meeting Agendas, 18%
Customer Service, 11%
City Ordinances, 9%
State Laws, 8%
Meeting Minutes, 7%
Financial Reports, 6%

Common management assistant skills

Patients, 13%
Word Processing, 12%
Customer Satisfaction, 11%
PowerPoint, 6%
Payroll, 6%
Statistical Data, 5%