Make a user an admin

Choose how your organization or team signed up for Google Workspace:

• Domain verified—You verified ownership of your organization's domain
• Email verified—You verified your business email address

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If you're a team administrator of an email-verified Google service —such as Google Workspace Business or Essentials, or Chrome Enterprise)—you can let another user manage your team's services by giving them an administrator role, too. When a user with a team admin role signs in to their Google Account, they'll have access to additional management controls.

Important: Assign the team admin role only to people you trust. With an email-verified account, all team admins can:

• Invite new users, which increases your monthly bill if you have a paid subscription.
• Remove users from the team, including other admins.
• Manage billing, if you have a paid subscription.
• Cancel your team's subscription.
• Gain access to files owned by others, including files owned by other admins.

Additionally, we recommend that all team admins protect their accounts with 2-Step Verification. 

Essentials editions: You can do these steps here, but you might find it easier to assign admin roles from your Team dashboard.

Make a team member an admin

1. Sign in to your Google Admin console.

   Sign in using an account with super administrator privileges (does not end in @gmail.com).

2. In the Admin console, go to Menu  DirectoryUsers.
3. In the Users list, find the user. If you need help, see Find a user account.
4. Click the user’s name to open their account page.
5. Click Admin roles and privileges.

   
   

6. Next to the Super Admin (email verified) role,  click the slider so it's marked Assigned  .
7. Click Save.
8. (Optional) To return to the user’s account page, at the top right, click the Up arrow  .

Important: Have each administrator add recovery options to their account.

The user typically gets their new privileges within a few minutes. However, it can take up to 24 hours. When they sign in to their account, they arrive at the Admin console Home page. Here they see the controls allowed by their privileges.

Change your admin

If you are your team's only admin, follow these steps to transfer that role to a different team member:

1. Assign the role to the new admin as shown above.
2. Have the new admin remove the role from the original admin. Go to Remove Google Workspace administrator privileges.

These steps ensure that your organization always has at least one admin.

Related topic

• Remove Google Workspace administrator privileges