The primary target to study in this article is the level of satisfaction of the secretaries who exercise their professional activities in the Region of Andalusia. The article is structured in two very defined parts.  The first part is a review of the written material relevant to the level of satisfaction in the labor and educative atmosphere, as well as the current situations the administration of the public school are going through and the consequences derived from the application of the different laws, specifically the LODE,  LOPEGCD and LOCE. The second part presents the research in itself. The experimental  design is described, in which different methodologic options are combined: descriptive and comparative. Through these options, the level of satisfaction of the secretaries in the non-university centers is studied and in the following dimensions that were selected: firstly, professional accomplishment, personal relations and organizational structure of the center; and secondly, the relations and differences between the demographic variables and the level of satisfaction.