- US median pay$76,590 a year[2]All industries, BLS May 2025
- Pay on our open vacancies$800–1,100 a month[3]You pay the person directly
- One-time fee$2,500–3,000[1]On the start day, only if you hire
- Free replacementWithin 180 days[1]One per placement, fee paid, role, hours and pay unchanged, no refund
What Google Workspace is for in this role
Google Workspace is Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs and Sheets under your company domain, and it's the office suite of many small businesses. For an executive assistant it is the main workplace: the boss's inbox, calendar and documents.
What knowing Google Workspace really means
- Works as a delegate on Gmail and Calendar without sharing a password
- Uses labels, filters and templates to keep the inbox down
- Books meetings across time zones with buffers and travel time
- Keeps a clean shared drive and sets sharing correctly
A short practical test
Give a sample inbox and calendar in a test account. Ask them to label and answer five emails, find a slot for three people in three time zones and share a folder with the right access. Check the time zones especially.
How long a smart hire needs to learn it
Two or three days, even from Outlook. Your boss's rules and preferences take several weeks. Give the person a real Google Workspace task on the first day, with someone checking the result, rather than a course.
Our rule of thumb from how the work breaks down, not a study.
What access to give
Create a company account for the person and require two-step sign-in. Use Gmail and Calendar delegation so that they can act for someone without sharing a password. Keep admin rights with an owner. Share files through shared drives, not personal folders, so they stay yours when people leave.
Available now
77 executive assistants on Stafka list Google Workspace, English B1–B2, updated 5 November 2026.
Executive Assistant0 years of experience · GE-1200
- English B1
- $800–1,000 a month
- 40 h a week, flexible hours
- Retail Banker · 3 m
- B2B/B2C Sales Manager Intern · 3 m
Executive Assistant2 years of experience · KZ-1010
- English B1
- $800–1,000 a month
- 40 h a week, covers US hours
- Business & Operations Support · 1 y 11 m
- Marketing & Administrative Support · 3 y
Executive Assistant1 year of experience · KZ-1011
- English B2
- $800–1,000 a month
- 40 h a week, covers US hours
- Wolt Project Lead / Courier Operations Manager · 1 y 1 m
- SMM Manager · 4 m
Executive Assistant1 year of experience · GE-1190
- English B1
- $800–1,000 a month
- 40 h a week, flexible hours
- Private Tutor / Educator
- Academic & Business Projects (student
Executive Assistant1 year of experience · AM-1021
- English B1
- $600 a month
- 40 h a week, flexible hours
- Freelance Translator / MTPE & LQA · 11 m
- Media & Subtitling Translator
Executive Assistant0 years of experience · GE-1175
- English B1
- $2,000 a month
- 40 h a week, flexible hours
- Personal / Business Assistant / Pre-Sales Specialist (Remote
- Customer Service Representative (Remote
Anonymous profiles of people who asked to be shown to employers. Most applied through our Telegram bot with a written and a voice English task; Silkstaff checks English on a live call before any client interview. Names, contacts and employers stay hidden until a candidate accepts your intro request.
Choose a country: shared hours
Most of this work runs from a task list, so the person does not need your whole day. A few shared hours for the morning inbox review and urgent calendar changes are usually enough.
Against a 9–17 client day in winter[4][5][6][7]; for New York, on a 9–18 local day or a 13–22 shift. Check your own office.
What it costs
On our open vacancies this role pays $800–1,100 a month[3], paid by you to the person. The BLS figure of $76,590 a year is for Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants[2] across all industries: we have no separate figure for this niche. Paying through Deel adds $49 a month[8]; Wise and Payoneer also work.
See also: executive assistant pay in the US, by state · pricing and replacement terms.
How hiring through Stafka works
- Send the brief or post the job free. Name whose time the person will protect, which inbox and calendar they will run, and what they may decide without asking.
- Within 5 business days of a confirmed brief you get 3 matching profiles, or a plain no. Most apply through our Telegram bot with a written and a voice English task; each profile shows the English level (B1–C2); Silkstaff checks English on a live call before any client interview.
- You interview, choose and contract the person directly through Deel, Wise or Payoneer. Candidates never pay.
Questions
Is delegation safe?
It's far safer than sharing a password, and you can remove it at once. Delegates can read and send, but don't have your password. Combine it with two-step sign-in and a written agreement on what they may do.
Should I pay more for an executive assistant who already knows Google Workspace?
Our placement fee is the same either way. Prior knowledge matters most when nobody on your team can teach Google Workspace. Our rule of thumb for learning it: Two or three days, even from Outlook. Your boss's rules and preferences take several weeks.
Where can I hire an affordable executive assistant who knows Google Workspace?
The usual routes are a freelance marketplace, an agency with a monthly margin, or a direct hire in a lower-cost country. On Stafka it is a direct hire: you pay the person $800–1,100 a month on our open vacancies[3], plus $2,500–3,000[1] once if you hire, with no monthly margin.
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