Hire a remote administrative assistant from Kazakhstan
An administrative assistant keeps the office running on paper and online: documents, data, scheduling, orders and the many small requests that land on a small team every day. The person works your hours from Almaty under a direct contract; you pay a one-time fee only if you hire.
US wage: BLS[1]. Local wage: Bureau of National Statistics[2]. English index[3].
Working hours
Almaty is on UTC+5, with no daylight saving time[4].
Hours in Almaty, January
An administrative assistant mostly works from a task list, so full coverage is not needed. From Almaty, a normal 9–18 day overlaps 5 h with Berlin and 0 h with New York in winter. For US clients, a 14:00–23:00 local shift gives 4 shared hours with a New York morning.
Most admin work is asynchronous, so a 2-3 hour overlap is usually enough if tasks are written down in one tracker.
English level
Kazakhstan ranks #107 of 123 countries in the EF English Proficiency Index 2025 with a score of 417 ("Very low" band). A national average says little about one person: every candidate we show passes a written task and a recorded voice answer at C1 level.
What to expect
Day to day
- Maintain files, templates and shared drives
- Enter and check data in spreadsheets and the CRM
- Schedule meetings and book rooms or calls
- Order supplies and track invoices
- Answer routine emails from customers and vendors
How to test candidates
- A spreadsheet task with lookups and a pivot table
- A short business email written from bullet points
- Attention-to-detail test: find 10 errors in an invoice list
Pay and cost
We do not publish an offer range for administrative assistants yet. For reference, the Kazakhstan average wage is about $1,071 a month and the median about $767. We publish medians from our own pipeline once a role and country has at least 10 applicants.
How to contract and pay
- A contractor agreement directly with the person, paid monthly in USD or EUR.
- Through Deel: $49 per contractor per month[5].
- By bank transfer with Wise Business: fees from 0.23%, depending on currency[6].
On Upwork the client marketplace fee is up to 7.99% of every payment[7], and moving a freelancer off the platform within 24 months costs 13.5% of a year's estimated earnings (minimum $1,000)[8].
How hiring through Stafka works
- Send the role, hours and budget.
- Within 5 business days you get 3 vetted profiles with a written English sample and a voice recording.
- Interview, choose, and sign a contract directly with the person.
- Pay the $2,500–$3,000 fee on the start day; a free replacement within 90 days if it does not work out.
Questions
How much does it cost to hire an administrative assistant from Kazakhstan?
Pay depends on experience; the Kazakhstan average wage is about $1,071 a month.
What time zone is Kazakhstan in?
Almaty is UTC+5, all year.
How good is English in Kazakhstan?
Kazakhstan scores 417 (Very low) in the EF English Proficiency Index 2025; we only show candidates who pass our C1 checks.
Sources
- BLS OEWS May 2025, 43-6014: https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes436014.htm
- Bureau of National Statistics, average monthly nominal wage, Q2 2026: https://stat.gov.kz/en/industries/labor-and-income/stat-wags/publications/514654/
- EF English Proficiency Index 2025: Kazakhstan: https://www.ef.com/wwen/epi/regions/asia/kazakhstan/
- timeanddate.com: Almaty time zone: https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/kazakstan/almaty
- Deel pricing, contractor management: https://www.deel.com/pricing/
- Wise Business pricing (US): https://wise.com/us/pricing/business
- Upwork Client Marketplace Fee: https://support.upwork.com/hc/en-us/articles/4660220468499-What-is-the-Client-Marketplace-Fee
- Upwork User Agreement, sections 7.1 and 7.3: https://www.upwork.com/legal
How these pages are built: methodology and data sources. Data checked 2026-10-16.