Executive Assistant salary in Port St. Lucie, FL

Pay in Port St. Lucie against Florida and the US

Executive assistants at the 90th percentile earn $88,620, 2.0 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 2.2. The middle half of executive assistants in Port St. Lucie earns $51,490–$75,900. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $24,410 wide, against $29,600 across Florida and $33,000 nationally: employers in Port St. Lucie pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for an executive assistant here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $10,680 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $13,730, or about $17,716 once benefits are added. These percentiles describe what people in the job earn locally, not experience levels, so place your offer by the tasks and seniority you need.

For scale, the US median of $76,590 falls between the 75th and 90th percentiles in Port St. Lucie, and the Florida statewide median of $64,710 falls between the median and the 75th percentile. An offer at the national rate would beat what three quarters of local executive assistants earn.

What a hire really costs in Port St. Lucie

Pay is only part of it. Benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², which adds about $18,049 to the $62,170 median and brings it to $80,219 a year. Recruiting, equipment and office space come on top. Benefit levels vary by employer, so treat this as an estimate.

Our open executive assistant roles pay $800–$1,100 a month under a direct contract. The one-time fee is $2,500³ with a 180-day replacement; paying through Deel adds $49 a month⁴. Change any number below to match your plan.

A local hire here costs about 5.5 times as much as a remote hire in year one at the midpoint of our range. From year two, when the fee drops out, it is 6.7 times the remote figure of $11,988. About the candidates: most apply through our assessment platform with a written and a spoken English task; each profile shows the English level (B1–C2); Silkstaff interviews every shortlisted candidate live, in English, before you meet them.

Other roles in Port St. Lucie

Of the 17 roles we track in Port St. Lucie, this one ranks #6 by median pay, between recruiters ($62,610) and paralegals ($60,370). Project Coordinator is the highest at $84,810.

Measured against the US median, this job is the lowest paid of the 17 roles we track in Port St. Lucie (-18.8%); data entry specialists come first (+16.2%). The typical role here is at -6.9%, so, measured against the US, executive assistants cost less in Port St. Lucie than the area's general pay level would suggest. Executive assistants hold 1.7% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Port St. Lucie, 1.7% across Florida and 2.9% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Florida

Across the 23 areas of Florida with data for this job, the median runs from $47,450 in Homosassa Springs to $73,180 in Miami-Fort Lauderdale, a gap of $25,730 a year. Of the 11 areas in Florida with more executive assistants than Port St. Lucie, 5 pay less, the largest of them Tallahassee, FL ($57,250), Gainesville, FL ($55,790) and Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL ($50,690).

Port St. Lucie against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Port St. Lucie is #191 of 506 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Florida, College Station-Bryan and Hilton Head Island-Bluffton pay just above Port St. Lucie and Rockford and Lima just below. All four are within $160 a year of the median in Port St. Lucie. Of the three markets with about as many executive assistants, all three pay more.

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