Hire vetted offshoreExecutive Assistants.
Calendar, inbox, travel, reporting and follow-through — handled by a vetted independent professional engaged through Sprint Labs, not a marketplace freelancer who disappears.
- Full-time, dedicated, managed by Sprint Labs
- Named shortlist in 5–10 business days
- One flat monthly seat cost, no placement fee
Recorded intros, prior work and references.
Get an executive assistant shortlist
Named, vetted candidates with recordings and rates. No account, no call required.
How much does an offshore executive assistant cost, and how does hiring one work?
Offshore executive assistants cost USD 1,100–2,000 per month all-in at mid-level, USD 2,000–2,900 for senior chief-of-staff-adjacent hires. The Philippines is the deepest and strongest market by a wide margin.
Embedded in teams across six markets
How fast can I get a candidate started?
Tell us the role
Two minutes, no account. Seniority, start date, anything specific.
We recruit and vet
Skills tests, a working session and reference checks against your brief.
You meet a shortlist
Named candidates with recordings, prior work and a flat monthly seat cost.
They start, we manage the engagement
Contracts, contractor fees and payments, time off, performance concerns and replacement sit with Sprint Labs.
Same role. A fraction of the cost.
Fully-loaded annual seat cost compared with hiring the same role locally.
- Dedicated full-time hire — included
- Contracted and managed by Sprint Labs — included
- Replacement at no extra cost — included
- Dedicated full-time hire — included
- Contracted and managed for you — not included
- Replacement at no extra cost — not included
Onshore ranges derived from the Hays Salary Guide (Australia) and Robert Half Salary Guide (United States), 2025 editions, converted to USD and loaded with employer on-costs. Sprint Labs figures are our own 2025 pricing.
What does a strong executive assistant change?
The EA role only works if the person stays long enough to build context, which is exactly why unmanaged marketplace hiring fails at it and a managed contractor model succeeds. Sprint Labs manages the assistant's engagement, payments, time off and support, so your context doesn't walk out the door every eight months.
What they own
- Own the executive calendar and protect deep-work time
- Triage the inbox and draft replies for approval
- Coordinate travel, expenses and vendor admin
- Take meeting notes and chase actions to completion
- Prepare briefing documents and recurring reports
What skills should an executive assistant have?
- Calendar & inbox management
- Travel coordination
- Meeting notes & follow-ups
- Expense management
- Google Workspace / Microsoft 365
- Notion & documentation
- Light bookkeeping
- CRM data hygiene
- Research & briefing packs
- Stakeholder communication
Executive Assistant seat cost, USD per month.
Indicative monthly fee covering the contractor's fee, recruitment and vetting, contracts, payments and FX, management support and replacement. There is no separate recruitment fee; your exact quote is generated in-app. Benchmarks in USD, reviewed .
- Entry
- $700 – $1,000
- Mid
- $1,100 – $1,700
- Senior
- $1,800 – $2,600
- Entry
- $800 – $1,200
- Mid
- $1,300 – $1,900
- Senior
- $2,000 – $2,800
- Entry
- $700 – $1,000
- Mid
- $1,100 – $1,600
- Senior
- $1,700 – $2,400
- Entry
- $750 – $1,100
- Mid
- $1,200 – $1,800
- Senior
- $1,900 – $2,900
Entry-level covers capable candidates with 1–3 years' experience, best where the work is well defined and supervised.
Brief the role in two minutes. Shortlist in days.
Interviewing an executive assistant.
Test judgement, not obedience
Give a scenario: two meetings clash and both are important. The answer reveals whether they'll manage your calendar or just record it.
Written English under time pressure
Ask them to draft a polite decline to a low-value meeting request in ten minutes. Tone is the job.
Discretion
EAs see everything. Ask how they've handled confidential information before. Sprint Labs contracts include confidentiality clauses, but you still want to hear the instinct.
Add AI accent conversion for $1/hour per user.
If the role spends time on the phone, our AI accent conversion neutralises accent in real time so every call lands clearly with your customers — without losing the person behind the voice.
Real-time neutralisation
Accent is softened live on the call, with latency low enough that the conversation still feels natural.
Their voice, preserved
Tone, pace, warmth and intent stay theirs. It is your actual team member on the line, just easier to follow.
Your existing phone system
Layers over the softphone or dialler you already run. No porting, no new platform, nothing to retrain.
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Questions about hiring an offshore executive assistant.
How is this different from hiring a VA on a freelance marketplace?
Managed contractor model. A Sprint Labs executive assistant is an independent contractor engaged by Sprint Labs, with contracts, payments, time off and support managed through us, which is why tenure can run in years rather than months. You also get a replacement guarantee, a single invoice, and no cross-border payment admin.
Can they work my hours?
Yes. Shift expectations are agreed in the Work Order before hiring. Manila and Jakarta give full overlap with Australia and New Zealand; US and UK coverage is arranged as an agreed shift with a differential built into the seat cost.
Do I need a local entity to hire an executive assistant offshore?
No. Sprint Labs recruits and engages the executive assistant as an independent contractor, manages the contractor agreement, fees and payments, time off, performance concerns, replacement and offboarding, and bills you one monthly fee in your own currency. You interview and choose, then direct the work day-to-day exactly as you would an in-house team member.
How long does it take to hire an executive assistant through Sprint Labs?
Most briefs produce a named, vetted shortlist within 5–10 business days. From there you interview, choose, and we handle the offer, contract and onboarding — typical brief-to-start is three to five weeks depending on the candidate's notice period.
What happens if the hire is not the right fit?
Tell us within the first 30 days and we replace them at our cost. After that, engagements carry a 60-day cancellation notice, which protects the contractor and gives you time to hand over work, but if you want to swap rather than terminate, we run a replacement search in parallel at no additional recruitment cost.
Brief the role in two minutes. Shortlist in days.
Brief the role. See a shortlist within 5–10 business days.
Named, vetted candidates with recordings, prior work and references — plus a flat monthly seat cost in your own currency.
