Cabinet secretary - Salary and Career
Executive Secretaries

Cabinet secretary - Career description, activities, functions and salary

They advise executives in the performance of their duties, assisting people (external and internal customers), managing information, preparing documents, controlling physical and electronic correspondence, providing services in foreign languages, organizing events and trips, supervising work teams, managing supplies, filing physical and electronic documents assisting in the execution of your administrative tasks and in meetings.

How much does an Cabinet secretary earn

A Cabinet secretary earns between $1.126 and $6.351 per month, with an average monthly salary of $2.217 and a median salary of $1.400 according to an Averwage.com salary survey along with to data of professionals hired and fired by companies in the labor market.

Our research is based on the salaries of 53.758 professionals hired and dismissed by the period from 06/2021 to 05/2022 (last year).


Salary ranges for the Cabinet secretary

Monthly Salary Annual Salary Salary Per Week Hourly Salary
Average wage 2.217 26.608 554 10
1º Quartile 1.126 13.513 282 5
Median Salary 1.400 16.800 350 7
3º Quartile 4.844 58.122 1.211 23
Higher Salary 6.351 76.212 1.588 30


Professional job categories

  • Science and arts professionals
    • professionals of the social sciences and humanities
      • organization and business administration professionals
        • executive secretaries

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Main workplaces

Executive Secretaries they work in the most varied economic activities of industry, commerce and services, in addition to public administration, as employees with a formal contract, statutory employees, or self-employed, under occasional supervision. They work individually or in teams, indoors and during daytime hours. They can remain in uncomfortable positions for long periods. They advise managers, serving more than one director or one area. Bilingual-trilingual secretaries perform the same activities as executive secretaries and differ in activities that require fluency in a foreign language.


What does it take to work in the field of Executive Secretaries

The exercise of these occupations requires a degree in secretarial work at the baccalaureate or technology level. Functional registration with the MTE is mandatory. For bilingual and trilingual secretaries, fluency in two or three foreign languages is essential. The full development of activities occurs after two or three years of experience.


Functions and activities of Cabinet secretary

Executive Secretaries must:

  • serve people (external and internal customer);
  • demonstrate personal skills;
  • provide services in foreign language;
  • serving people (external and internal customer);
  • elaborate documents;
  • manage supplies;
  • supervise work teams;
  • provide foreign language services;
  • providing services in foreign language;
  • manage information;
  • organize events and travel;
  • providing foreign language services;
  • advise executive(s) / area(s);
  • develop documents;
  • service people (external and internal customer);
  • prepare documents;
  • serve people (external and internal customer);
  • provide services in foreign language;
  • service people (external and internal customer);
  • organizing events and travel;
  • archive physical and electronic documents;
  • advisor executive(s) / area(s);
  • answering people (external and internal customer);
  • control physical and electronic correspondence;

  • Activities

    • demonstrate communication skills;
    • manage stress;
    • secretariat of meetings;
    • elaborate attendance list;
    • monitor team work;
    • play documents;
    • provide legal documentation for the executive (passport, visas);
    • receive people;
    • demonstrate proactivity;
    • use the temporality table;
    • elaborate accountability;
    • demonstrate leadership spirit;
    • manage the executive's agenda(s) ;
    • hire exhibitors and speakers;
    • make phone calls;
    • prioritize appointments and phone calls;
    • accompany executive(s) in event(s) and travel;
    • sieve correspondence;
    • transmit messages;
    • authorize entry/stay of visitors and third parties;
    • set hours;
    • manage files;
    • monitor entry and exit times;
    • cancel appointments;
    • choose menu;
    • survey material requirements;
    • archive correspondence;
    • provide interpreter service;
    • demonstrate a sense of organization;
    • providing special service to authorities and differentiated customers;
    • sign school documents;
    • send invitation or summons;
    • create reports;
    • forward phone calls;
    • work as a team;
    • fulfill orders and requests;
    • play documents;
    • manage pending issues;
    • manage conflicts;
    • update files;
    • providing equipment, materials and support services;
    • provide special service to authorities and differentiated customers;
    • clippings;
    • demonstrate rhetorical skills;
    • show patience;
    • prepare presentations;
    • select personnel;
    • demonstrate dynamism;
    • synthesize texts in a foreign language;
    • sort documents;
    • check material;
    • show patience;
    • adapt storage space;
    • demonstrate initiative;
    • protocol correspondence;
    • filter phone calls;
    • support expatriates;
    • evaluate the team;
    • elaborate school documentation;
    • create attendance list;
    • identify the nature of the document;
    • control schedules;
    • forward documents;
    • send correspondence;
    • charge responses;
    • secretariat meetings;
    • support during the event;
    • demonstrate discretion;
    • quote prices;
    • forward people;
    • elaborate invitations and summons;
    • work as a team;
    • prepare presentations;
    • adapt to change;
    • make appointments;
    • transmit fax;
    • elaborate evaluation form;
    • elaborate spreadsheets and graphs;
    • supporting expatriates;
    • direct information;
    • dispatch with the executive(s) ;
    • register documents;
    • receive correspondence;
    • develop attendance list;
    • answering phone calls;
    • establish team assignments;
    • disclose information;
    • forward certificates;
    • demonstrate proactiveness;
    • work under pressure;
    • ciceronar visits;
    • writing documents in a foreign language;
    • hire third-party services;
    • transcribe texts;
    • prepare room/location;
    • enter documents;
    • establish a schedule of activities;
    • control pouch;
    • track processes;
    • search location;
    • demonstrate sensitivity;
    • support meetings;
    • write documents;
    • translate documents;
    • review translations;
    • type documents;
    • collect signature;
    • charge reports;
    • empower team;
    • guide people;
    • purchase material, equipment and furniture;
    • identify the subject;
    • order material;
    • request funds;
    • format documents;
    • adapt to change;
    • reserve room/location;
    • monitor contracts and warranties;
    • take dictations;
    • sign school documents;
    • charge actions;
    • provide information;
    • quote prices;
    • keep the database up to date;
    • formulate purchase orders;
    • overcoming adverse situations;
    • elaborate minutes;
    • translate documents;
    • make clippings;
    • sort documents;
    • annotate information;
    • determine file format (floppy, microfilm);
    • elaborate database;
    • arrange tickets, accommodation and local transport;
    • checklist;
    • read documents;
    • taking notes;
    • search information and data;
    • consult professionals from other areas;
    • confirm attendance;
    • schedule team activities;
    • register correspondence;
    • control deadlines;


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