Six Figures for an “Executive Assistant”

[Anonymous]

Snagging a high salary as an EA is a combination of work ethic and luck. First, you have to be a great worker who adds value to your team. And second, you need to be lucky to work for someone who appreciates the value you add. I’m in finance and pay my EA over $200k. She is worth every penny and has meaningful contributed to the growth of my practice. Part of her compensation is tied to the revenue I produce, so she knows that when I do well, so does she.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:EAs are underpaid.


It's amazing how departments would absolutely blow up of it weren't for admin staff and EAs. Senior staff are clueless trying to arrange flights, optimal travel, hotels, dealing with Visa requirements, arranging schedules, paying for things, making reservations for restaurants with important clients, etc. absolutely nothing would function without good EAs. A good EA is worth their weight in gold.

Worth a higher salary than a doctor in residency? They also work long hours under stress

Yes. A resident is well educated but is basically as useful as any other entry-level employee. Same as a first year associate.

I am in administration (for now) and I don’t think an EA deserves more than an entry level doctor or lawyer or professor. They go to school for years and come out with debt just to make less than a round the clock Secretary?

Can't address doctors or professors, but I am a lawyer and will say: first year associates are pretty easy to come by, but good assistants? Those are like unicorns. So the pay has to be good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She doesn’t have a college degree FYI. She watches Netflix and barely does her work. Is this the new trend?

How do you people get these high paying administrative gigs?

Nanny with only a high school diploma and I earn $125k in LA. Sorry, op.

[Anonymous]

This is such a normal post. OP is a normal, sincere person and you are all interacting with a normal person who started a discussion in good faith. We all know that trolls are a problem, but we need to give this person all of our attention because they are obviously very normal and very real.

Super high IQs all around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She doesn’t have a college degree FYI. She watches Netflix and barely does her work. Is this the new trend?

How do you people get these high paying administrative gigs?

Nanny with only a high school diploma and I earn $125k in LA. Sorry, op.

Jeez. Do you go on vacations too? May as well be a SAHM/tradwife if nanny and exec assisting is what pays.

Well, this was enlightening-life changing possibly.

Thanks everyone for the assistance. Truly was unaware there’s a ladder without grad school to higher pay

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is such a normal post. OP is a normal, sincere person and you are all interacting with a normal person who started a discussion in good faith. We all know that trolls are a problem, but we need to give this person all of our attention because they are obviously very normal and very real.

Super high IQs all around.

Surely, I can learn about normalcy and high IQ from you. You’re quite the Rhodes Scholar and debutante, aren’t ya?