Placement secretary vs management assistant

The differences between placement 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 placement secretary and a management assistant. Additionally, a management assistant has an average salary of $44,020, which is higher than the $36,922 average annual salary of a placement secretary.

The top three skills for a placement secretary include multi-line phone system, and . The most important skills for a management assistant are patients, word processing, and customer satisfaction.

Placement secretary vs management assistant overview

	Placement Secretary	Management Assistant
Yearly salary	$36,922	$44,020
Hourly rate	$17.75	$21.16
Growth rate	-8%	-8%
Number of jobs	7,144	107,324
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Associate Degree, 40%	Bachelor's Degree, 68%
Average age	50	50
Years of experience	2	2

Placement secretary vs management assistant salary

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

	Placement Secretary	Management Assistant
Average salary	$36,922	$44,020
Salary range	Between $29,000 And $46,000	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 placement secretary and management assistant education

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

	Placement Secretary	Management Assistant
Most common degree	Associate Degree, 40%	Bachelor's Degree, 68%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	Northwestern University	Western Carolina University

Placement secretary vs management assistant demographics

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

	Placement Secretary	Management Assistant
Average age	50	50
Gender ratio	Male, 3.1% Female, 96.9%	Male, 41.7% Female, 58.3%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 6.6% Unknown, 3.8% Hispanic or Latino, 11.7% Asian, 3.4% White, 73.8% 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 placement secretary and management assistant duties and responsibilities

Placement secretary example responsibilities.

Manage and oversee all STO relate actions task to OSD impacting future and current operations in STO.
Prepare all congressional correspondence, validate payroll and financial management data and introduce business technology operations via the e-gov initiatives program.
Train district personnel on the use of system and BECCA procedures.
Serve as OSD spokesperson/media escort for numerous visits from Washington D.C. to Cuba with national and international media.

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.

Placement secretary vs management assistant skills

Common placement secretary skills

Multi-Line Phone System, 100%

Common management assistant skills

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

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Updated January 8, 2025

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