Junior secretary vs senior executive

The differences between junior secretaries and senior executives can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. While it typically takes 1-2 years to become a junior secretary, becoming a senior executive takes usually requires 2-4 years. Additionally, a senior executive has an average salary of $104,507, which is higher than the $33,620 average annual salary of a junior secretary.

The top three skills for a junior secretary include routine correspondence, office procedures and payroll. The most important skills for a senior executive are customer service, project management, and SR.

Junior secretary vs senior executive overview

	Junior Secretary	Senior Executive
Yearly salary	$33,620	$104,507
Hourly rate	$16.16	$50.24
Growth rate	-8%	-8%
Number of jobs	18,981	74,894
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 32%	Bachelor's Degree, 62%
Average age	50	49
Years of experience	2	4

Junior secretary vs senior executive salary

Junior secretaries and senior executives have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Junior Secretary	Senior Executive
Average salary	$33,620	$104,507
Salary range	Between $25,000 And $44,000	Between $63,000 And $172,000
Highest paying City	-	Hartford, CT
Highest paying state	-	Connecticut
Best paying company	-	Intuit
Best paying industry	-	Pharmaceutical

Differences between junior secretary and senior executive education

There are a few differences between a junior secretary and a senior executive in terms of educational background:

	Junior Secretary	Senior Executive
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 32%	Bachelor's Degree, 62%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	University of Pennsylvania	Western Carolina University

Junior secretary vs senior executive demographics

Here are the differences between junior secretaries' and senior executives' demographics:

	Junior Secretary	Senior Executive
Average age	50	49
Gender ratio	Male, 10.1% Female, 89.9%	Male, 57.4% Female, 42.6%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 9.1% Unknown, 3.9% Hispanic or Latino, 15.9% Asian, 3.8% White, 66.6% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.7%	Black or African American, 7.6% Unknown, 4.8% Hispanic or Latino, 11.2% Asian, 5.0% White, 71.0% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.4%
LGBT Percentage	6%	10%

Differences between junior secretary and senior executive duties and responsibilities

Junior secretary example responsibilities.

Manage financial bookkeeping efficiently for the company using QuickBooks.
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.

Senior executive example responsibilities.

Work with other team leads for integration of the software for deployment to QA area.
Manage releases to multiple prod and non-prod environments using HPSD tool base in ITIL standards.
Manage vendor selection, purchasing, budgeting, and asset management ensuring positive ROI on capital and expense dollars.
Manage teaching hospitals and non-profit community healthcare institutions pharmaceutical supply chain operations (end-to-end services).
Rationalize the portfolio through decommissioning and consolidation of legacy applications to accomplish annual cost savings of 900K.
Manage a team responsible for designing service-orient application architecture, standards and best practices guidelines, security and data access frameworks.

Junior secretary vs senior executive skills

Common junior secretary skills

Routine Correspondence, 28%
Office Procedures, 10%
Payroll, 9%
Word Processing, 6%
Greeting Visitors, 5%
Telephone Calls, 5%

Common senior executive skills

Customer Service, 17%
Project Management, 8%
SR, 8%
Healthcare, 7%
Human Resources, 7%
Macro, 6%