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Skills that move you up a bracket

• Bookkeeping

  Learn accounts payable, accounts receivable and one accounting package. Office administrators who handle the books are far harder to replace.

• Payroll

  Specialized, detail-heavy and always in demand.

• Human resources basics

  Onboarding, benefits, records. A common sideways move into a better paid track.

• Project coordination

  Running schedules and budgets for projects is the step from administration into management.

• Advanced spreadsheets and reporting

  Pivot tables, formulas and dashboards. Unglamorous, and it changes what you get asked to do.