The Job Nobody Talks About Accurately
Coming on twelve years as an Executive Assistant, and I still get “oh, so you schedule meetings?” at dinner parties.
Sure. Among other things.
I’ve managed the schedules of people whose names you’d recognize, coordinated travel that required the kind of logistics planning most people associate with military operations, and sat in rooms where genuinely consequential decisions were made. Not because I was invited as a peer, but because I was trusted completely.
That’s a different thing, and it takes years to understand why it matters.
Why I built this
The pay gap in EA compensation is real, it’s wide, and nobody talks about it openly. A Senior EA in San Francisco supporting a Series D CEO can earn $160K—the same title at an enterprise company in Chicago might earn $85K. There’s no levels.fyi for our field. No Glassdoor that accurately reflects the variance. Just vibes, LinkedIn posts, and whatever your recruiter tells you is “market.”
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Next week: How I landed my first EA job with no experience and a degree in exercise science. It’s more straightforward than people expect, and the things that actually matter are probably not what you think.