Hire an Executive Assistant from Latin America
An executive assistant from Latin America costs around $27,000 a year full time, against about $72,000 for the same hire in the United States. The role only works if the person is reachable while you are working, which is exactly what the region gives you and an offshore hire does not.
This is a different job from a general virtual assistant. An executive assistant is trusted with your calendar, your inbox and, quite often, your board deck. Screening for judgment matters more than screening for software.
What an executive assistant owns
- Calendar strategy: not just booking, but deciding what is worth your hour and pushing back on what is not.
- Inbox management with drafting rights, so you approve replies instead of writing them.
- Meeting prep and follow-through: agendas, briefing notes, and the action list that actually gets chased.
- Board and investor logistics, including the deck assembly nobody wants to own.
- Personal and household coordination, when the role is set up to cover it.
- Gatekeeping: handling the people who want time with you without burning the relationship.
What it costs against a US hire
What we actually place this role at: $1,800 to $2,500 a month, full time.
The table below is our salary benchmark for the role, used across the salary guide and the calculators. Full-time yearly cost. Executive support sits at the top of the administrative band because the role is judgment work rather than task work.
Executive Assistant
- US salary
- $72,000
- Through Remote Hero
- $27,000
- You save
- $45,000
Personal Assistant
- US salary
- $55,000
- Through Remote Hero
- $25,200
- You save
- $29,800
Operations Assistant
- US salary
- $50,000
- Through Remote Hero
- $23,400
- You save
- $26,600
Administrative Assistant
- US salary
- $52,000
- Through Remote Hero
- $21,600
- You save
- $30,400
Virtual Assistant
- US salary
- $48,000
- Through Remote Hero
- $21,600
- You save
- $26,400
Figures are yearly full-time estimates as of August 2026 and move with seniority and country. The full dataset for all 99 roles is in the salary guide.
Screening for an executive assistant
Discretion is the whole job
This person sees compensation, board material and bad news first. Ask what they did when they were handed information they should not have had. The answer tells you more than any reference.
Test the anticipation, not the obedience
Give a candidate a messy week and ask what they would move. A strong executive assistant reorders the week without being asked. A weak one books exactly what you said and lets the conflict arrive on its own.
Match the working style, honestly
Some executives want a daily call, others want silence and a Friday summary. Say which you are, because the mismatch here ends more placements than skill gaps do.
Give it ninety days
The role gets dramatically better once the person knows your people and your patterns. Hiring an executive assistant and judging it in three weeks is the most common way this goes wrong.
How hiring a executive assistant works here
- 1
One 15-minute call
You describe the role, the hours you need covered and the tools. We tell you honestly whether nearshore fits it.
- 2
Vetted shortlist in 2-4 weeks
Skills, spoken English and background checked before anyone reaches you. You run the interviews.
- 3
One agreement, and they start
You sign a Master Services Agreement with us. We engage and pay the professional; they work as part of your team, month to month.
Plan for about a two-week ramp once they start, and own that part: training, context, clear expectations and access to your systems. We stay involved after the placement, so if something goes wrong on either side we mediate rather than leaving you to it.
The full breakdown is on how it works, and the pricing for each service sits on our services.
Questions we get about this role
- What is the difference between a virtual assistant and an executive assistant?
- A virtual assistant works from a task list you set. An executive assistant sets part of that list themselves, protects your time, and makes small decisions on your behalf. The pay difference, roughly $21,600 against $27,000 in this region, reflects that judgment.
- Will my executive assistant work my hours?
- Yes. That is the reason this role is placed nearshore rather than offshore. Calendar defense and inbox triage only work if the person is awake while your day is happening.
- How do I protect confidential information?
- A confidentiality clause in the engagement agreement, access granted per system rather than in bulk, and a clear list of what the person may act on without asking. We set the agreement up as part of the placement.
- Can an executive assistant support more than one person?
- Two executives is common and workable. Three is where quality usually starts to slip, because the calendar conflicts stop being solvable and the person spends the day negotiating instead of assisting.
Related pages
Other roles we place, and the pages behind the numbers on this one.
- PricingMonthly ranges for every role we place, and what moves a number inside its band.
- All staffing servicesRecruitment process outsourcing, direct hire and resume sourcing, with what each costs.
- Savings calculatorPrice this role against a US hire and see the yearly difference.
- Salary guideUS pay against Latin America pay across all 99 roles we place.
- Talent by industryThe roles we fill most in tech, healthcare, real estate and finance.
- Contractor or employeeWhich model the law points to once you pick someone.
- What a virtual assistant costsHourly and yearly figures by seniority, the four hiring models, and the employer costs nobody quotes.
- Client resultsWhat other companies built and what it saved them.
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