Administration
General office clerk
Key facts
This job is declining in the United States. The BLS partly attributes the decline of administrative jobs, including this one, to automation tools, AI among them. Future-proof jobs use similar skills: see "What next?".
The job
Handles mail, filing, reception, schedules and routine office tasks for a department.
24 job titles linked to this page
Titles from the European ESCO classification. They are also used for search.
- account administrator
- administrative support officer
- clerical assistant
- correspondence clerk
- engineering assistant
- engineering project assistant
- membership administrator
- membership and subscription administrator
- membership officer
- membership sales administrator
- office clerk
- project aide
- project support
- project support worker
- project supporter
- regional membership administrator
- tech assistant
- technical aide
- technical assistant
- technical support
- technical support worker
- technical supporter
- technological assistant
- technology assistant
What next?
Future-proof jobs that draw on skills close to this one. They are leads to explore, not an assessment of your profile.
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Indicative matches: at launch they will come from the skills listed in official occupational directories.
Gauges
No US indicator measures hiring difficulty job by job: this gauge stays empty. How countries are compared
Sources
Second-largest decline in numbers according to the BLS, which expects −4% for office and administrative support occupations as a whole, partly because of automation tools, including AI. The ILO notes that clerical occupations remain the most exposed group in its 2025 index.
- AI exposure categories and employment projections, 2025-2035 (XLSX file)Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States · August 2026 · official statistics
- Occupations with the largest job declines, 2025-2035Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States · August 2026 · official statistics
- Employment Projections — 2025-2035 (news release)Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States · 27 August 2026 · official statistics
- Generative AI and Jobs: a refined global index of occupational exposureInternational Labour Organization and NASK · May 2025 · large survey
Checked on 27 October 2026.