Job Title: Administrative Assistant in the Fishes Department at an Aquarium
Description: Ordering and inventory of food and general supplies for the animal collection. Reconciling purchases and posting invoices to accounting and running payroll. Animal training of team members and maintenance of diver equipment.
Degree Required: AS
- Associate's Degree is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by community colleges, junior colleges, technical colleges, and some four-year bachelor's degree-granting colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study usually lasting two years.
Skills Required: Computer skills, Learns on the job, Oral communication skills, Record maintenance, Works under pressure, Written communication skills
Market Sector: Museum/Zoo/Aquarium
Relative Salary: $$
- We did not collect actual income range information in our survey. Instead we chose to express income range with a number of dollar signs, expressing relative salaries. A single $ is relatively low salary compared to the average, $$ - $$$ is average, and $$$$$ is much higher than average income.
Since each person surveyed may have a different viewpoint as to what constitutes an average salary, and since salary is often commensurate with years of experience, the number of dollar signs should not be regarded as an absolute, but only as an indicator.