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One person, full-time, on your inbox, your calendar and every follow-up.
I was Kasim Aslam's assistant before I was his co-founder. Now we train and place Right Hands. Every one passed a 10-day live bootcamp and a scored five-day work test before you see their profile.
If we don't find a match you're truly excited about, you owe nothing.
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A virtual executive assistant is an executive assistant who works remotely. They run your inbox, calendar, follow-ups, travel and projects from another city or country, usually full-time on your hours. The difference from a virtual assistant is ownership. You hand over whole areas of work, and they decide what to do next.
That last part is the whole job. If you still have to write the steps, check the work and remember to ask about it, you have a task service. A good executive assistant takes "my calendar" off your list and you stop thinking about it.
They take the work that keeps you at your desk after dinner. In week one that's usually email and the calendar. By the end of month one it's follow-ups, invoices, travel, vendors and the CRM. After that, a good one starts building: SOPs, automations and AI tools for the work you used to do by hand.
"She's done everything I asked her to do, good communication, on the ball, really professional, everything's been really good."
"Rebecca's a beast. She's on it. She's super efficient and a master task manager."
"She created five listings for me on Zillow using some other listings that I had. She jumped right in and figured that out, and did a great job."
Not sure what to hand over first? I wrote down the order we use: what to delegate to an executive assistant.
A virtual assistant does the tasks you assign, often part-time and split across several clients. A virtual executive assistant runs part of your business for you, full-time: they notice what's slipping, fix it and tell you after. You manage a virtual assistant. A good executive assistant manages your week.
| Compare | Task-based virtual assistant | Virtual executive assistant (a Right Hand) |
|---|---|---|
| What you hand over | A task, with the steps written out | An outcome: "my inbox", "the launch", "client follow-ups" |
| Hours | Often part-time or billed by the hour | Full-time, on your hours |
| Who they work for | Often several clients at once | One founder |
| Who spots the problem | You do | They do, and they bring a draft fix |
| Tools | Whatever you teach them | Trained on Claude, ChatGPT, Zapier, n8n and GoHighLevel before day one |
| US pay benchmark | $22.86 an hour median for secretaries and administrative assistants | $36.82 an hour median for executive assistants |
US pay: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, SOC 43-6014 and SOC 43-6011, pulled from the BLS public data API on October 12, 2026. US in-office employees, shown as the closest official benchmark for each role.
My honest take: if you need five hours a week of data entry, hire a virtual assistant. It's cheaper and it's the right tool. If you're the bottleneck in your own company, more hands on tasks won't fix it. You need one person who owns things.
Kasim hired me off Freelancer.com in 2018. I was 18. I started with his inbox and his calendar.
Nobody trained me. I learned the job by doing it, then the tech, then the rest of the company. By 2022 I was CEO of Solutions 8, and I ran the due diligence when it sold.
What made it work was that Kasim handed me whole areas, not tasks, and kept handing me more. Most assistants never get that, or the training to deserve it. Pareto gives them both before they start. Kasim has three Right Hands from Pareto now. Mine, Ampy, was our first internal hire.
Ivan BuninCo-founder, Pareto Talent
With Pareto, $3,600 a month, $10,000 a quarter or $36,000 a year, plus a one-time $3,000 placement fee. For comparison, the median US executive assistant earns $76,590 a year before benefits, and about $109,400 once benefits and payroll costs are added.
Every plan includes a one-time $3,000 placement fee on your first invoice. You selected Annual: that's $7,200/yr less than paying monthly.
How that compares with a US hire: executive assistant salary, US vs Latin America.
List what you'll hand over, decide whether it's a full-time job, test candidates on real work, hire for how you work, and plan the first 30 days before they start. Whether you hire through us or not, that's the order I'd do it in.
Or skip steps 2 to 4. Every Right Hand already passed a 10-day live bootcamp and a five-day final build scored out of 25. You get three profiles in 24 hours, interview them and pick one.
Get MatchedFor one week, note every task you did that someone else could do. Then group them into areas: inbox, calendar, clients, money, travel. You're hiring someone to own areas. Our delegation matrix shows where to start.
If the list fits in a few hours a week, a part-time virtual assistant is fine. If it's your inbox, calendar and follow-ups every day, it's a full-time job, and a part-timer will always be catching up.
Structured interviews (r = .42) and work samples (.33) predict job performance far better than years of experience (.07), per a 2022 meta-analysis by Sackett and colleagues. Give finalists a paid task that looks like a real week. Here's the work-sample test we use.
A detail-first assistant and a big-picture founder can grind each other down, even when both are good. We have you and every candidate take the same Predictive Index assessment and only shortlist strong fits.
Meet for 10 minutes every day for the first month. Hand over one area at a time, starting with the calendar. Write down how you like things done the first time you explain them. The goal is your first hours back by Day 7.
We replace them at no cost, for any reason, at any time. And before you start, you owe nothing until you've found someone you're excited about. Three guarantees cover the whole relationship.
Attend the Delegation Mastermind, follow the onboarding plan, and meet with your Right Hand 10 minutes daily. If you don't get at least 40 hours back within your first 30 days, your next month is on us.
If we don't find a match you're truly excited about, you owe nothing. No contracts until you find your person. We present 3+ hand-picked candidates. You interview them and choose. If none feel right, you walk away owing zero.
If the match is ever not right, for any reason, at any time, we replace your Right Hand at no cost. No fees. No waiting period. Forever. There is no scenario where you're stuck with something that's not working.
"My executive assistant Marina came from Pareto Talent and is just a world-beater. The best EA I have ever had."
"My executive assistant runs point on critical projects and keeps track of so many endless opportunities. I recommend them on a frequent basis."
"I'm so happy with the decision, I can't imagine going back to like pre-Paula, or pre-an EA."
"I got him his own Canva account, and he went and made 100 social posts for Instagram, based on a format that he liked. So, really good initiative."
What to delegate to an executive assistantThe matrix: what to hand over first.
Executive assistant salary: US vs Latin AmericaThe real year-one cost.
How to vet a remote executive assistantThe work-sample test we use.
How to hire top remote talent in Latin AmericaThe process, costs and countries.
Latin America vs the PhilippinesTime zones, English, cost and fit.
Two quick questions, then a short Matching Call. If we're a fit, you get three hand-picked profiles within 24 hours. You interview them and choose.
If we don't find a match you're truly excited about, you owe nothing.