How to Remove an Admin From a LinkedIn Company Page, Including a Former Employee

To remove an admin from a LinkedIn company page, a super admin opens the page in admin view, goes to Settings, then Manage admins, finds the person and chooses Remove admin, or edits their role to something narrower. Only a super admin can remove other admins, and the change takes effect straight away. The person is not notified by LinkedIn, and they keep their personal profile and connections; they simply lose the ability to act as the page.

That is the whole mechanic. The rest of this guide covers the parts that catch owners out: which role to downgrade to, what happens to posts the person scheduled, and how to tidy access so the next departure is a non-event.

Before you start: check you are a super admin

LinkedIn splits page access into roles. A super admin can do everything, including adding and removing other admins, editing the page and deactivating it. Content admins can post and edit content but cannot manage other admins. Analysts can see the numbers and nothing else. There are also paid-media roles for advertising, which sit alongside page roles rather than above them.

If you open Manage admins and cannot edit anyone, you are not a super admin. Ask whoever is. If the only super admin is the person who has left, the route is different, and our guide to getting admin access when the only admin has left walks through it.

How to remove an admin from a LinkedIn company page, step by step

On desktop

1. Sign in to LinkedIn and open your company page from the Me menu or your list of pages.
2. Make sure you are in admin view (you will see the admin tools and an Edit page option).
3. Open Settings, then select Manage admins.
4. Find the person under Page admins. If you have several, search by name.
5. Click the pencil or the three-dot menu beside their name and choose Remove admin.
6. Confirm. Their role disappears from the list immediately.

LinkedIn occasionally moves these menus, so if a label differs slightly, look for anything called admins or roles inside the page settings.

On mobile

The LinkedIn app lets you view and manage the page, but admin management is more reliable on desktop, and some role controls have historically been desktop only. If an option is missing in the app, switch to a browser rather than assuming you lack permission.

Downgrade instead of removing

Removing is right for someone who has left. For someone whose job has changed, a narrower role is often better. Edit their role rather than deleting it:

• Super admin to content admin for a manager who still posts but should not control who else has access.
• Content admin to analyst for someone who reports on performance but no longer publishes.
• Any page role removed, paid-media role kept for an agency that still runs your ads but no longer writes organic posts.

When you add people in future, the same thinking applies from day one. Our article on how to add an admin and which role to give them covers the choice in more detail.

Removing a former employee or an agency

For a former employee, remove the role on or before their last day. Leaving it in place is not usually malicious, but an old account that still controls your page is a risk if that person's login is ever compromised.

For an agency, check whether access was granted to one named person or several. Agencies often add two or three staff, and each needs removing individually. Also check whether the agency set up advertising access separately, because removing a page role does not touch an ad account.

If you cannot remove someone because they are the last super admin and you are not one, do not try to work around it with shared logins. Use LinkedIn's own access request process instead.

What happens to scheduled posts and past content

Posts already published stay on the page. They belong to the company page, not to the person who wrote them, so removing an admin does not delete anything.

Scheduled posts are less predictable. A post scheduled inside LinkedIn is tied to the account that scheduled it, and once that account loses admin rights it may fail to publish. Before you remove someone, check the scheduled posts list in admin view and reschedule anything important under your own account. If you are not sure how, our guide to scheduling posts with LinkedIn itself shows where they live.

Third-party scheduling tools add another layer. Most connect to a page through one person's LinkedIn authorisation. If that person is removed, the connection can break and queued posts may stop silently. Reconnect the tool under a current admin's account and check the queue afterwards.

Removing the person is quick. Finding out three weeks later that nothing has been posting is the expensive part.

A short access hygiene checklist

• Keep at least two current super admins, ideally a director and an operational lead.
• Review Manage admins every quarter and whenever someone leaves.
• Give the narrowest role that does the job.
• Grant access to named individuals, never to a shared login.
• List every tool connected to the page and whose account authorises it.
• Check scheduled posts before removing anyone who created them.
• Remove ad account access separately from page roles.
• Add access removal to your leavers' checklist alongside email and payroll.

If the page goes quiet after a departure because the person who posted has gone, that is a content problem rather than an access one. Helio Posts is built for that situation: it drafts company page posts from your website and brief, a named person approves each one by email, and publishing runs through LinkedIn's official API, so the page does not depend on whoever happened to be posting. Plan details are on the pricing page.

Common questions about removing LinkedIn page admins

Does LinkedIn tell someone when they are removed as a page admin?

LinkedIn does not generally send a notification when a super admin removes another admin from a company page. The person usually finds out when the page no longer appears in their admin list or they cannot post as the company. If the departure is amicable, telling them directly is courteous and avoids confusion about any posts they had planned.

Can I remove the original creator of a LinkedIn company page?

The original creator of a LinkedIn company page has no permanent special status. Any super admin can remove them, as long as at least one other super admin remains. LinkedIn will not let a page end up with no super admins, so add a replacement before removing the creator if they are currently the only one.

Why can't I see the option to remove an admin?

The option to remove an admin from a LinkedIn company page only appears for super admins, and most reliably on desktop. Content admins and analysts can see the page tools but cannot change other people's roles. If you are certain you are a super admin, try a desktop browser, as some role controls are limited in the mobile app.

Will removing an admin delete the posts they wrote?

Removing an admin does not delete posts they published on the company page, because published content belongs to the page rather than the individual. Their comments and likes made as the page also remain. Posts they scheduled but had not yet published are the exception worth checking, as those may fail once their access is removed.