As a VP Secretary, you provide secretarial and administrative support to a Vice President — managing correspondence, coordinating meetings, recording minutes, maintaining files, and handling the formal documentation a senior office generates.
A typical day tends to involve calendar coordination, drafting and routing correspondence, preparing meeting materials, recording minutes, managing files, and the special projects that come up across the office. The work blends traditional secretarial duties with broader executive support — what falls in scope depends on the VP and organization.
Coordination tends to happen with the VP, their leadership peers, internal teams, and external contacts who need access. Holding both the formal documentation work and the relational gatekeeper role is much of the position — rigor with records, warmth with people interacting with the office.
People who tend to thrive here are organized, formally polished, and comfortable with both traditional administrative work and modern executive coordination. If you want strategic ownership or visible creative work, the support nature can feel limiting. If you find satisfaction in being the trusted hand that keeps a senior office running on the formal record, the role offers steady, often well-compensated work.
Where this role sits in the broader career landscape — and where it can take you.
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View all Admin & Office roles →As a VP Secretary, you provide secretarial and administrative support to a Vice President — managing correspondence, coordinating meetings, recording minutes, maintaining files, and handling the formal documentation a senior office generates.
Median pay for a VP Secretary (Vice President Secretary) is about $74K nationally, with the field ranging roughly from $48K to $108K depending on experience, employer, and metro (BLS).
Core skills for this role include Active Listening, Reading Comprehension, Speaking, Service Orientation, and Writing.
Most people in this role hold a postsecondary certificate.
Employment in this field is projected to decline about 1.6% through 2034, with roughly 472,770 people working in it today (BLS).
Closely related roles include Office Assistant, Administrative Support Specialist, and Senior Administrative Support Specialist.
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