In 451 or 450 Pericles carried a law confining Athenian citizenship to those of Athenian parentage on both sides. No source provides any background to this proposal; it is not even clear whether it was retrospective.
A high school diploma or GED is enough to get started as an office clerk. It is important to have some office skills, such as typing, good phone skills, word processing, etc. Most training is done on the job.
Pay Scale. Office clerks earned an average annual wage of $28,920, or $13.90 an hour, according to the bureau. The best-paid 10 percent could earn more than $43,390, or $20.86 an hour, while the lowest-paid 10 percent earned less than $17,740, or $8.53 an hour. Administrative assistants earned an average of $33,020, or $15.87 an hour.