Need for EAs drives salary increases

As businesses around the world are recovering from the financial crisis, roles that were eliminated to save money are now becoming the focus of an increase in recruitment. In New Zealand, it would appear that experienced executive assistants are back in demand and can expect an average pay rise of 7.8% as a result.

Several Auckland-based businesses were forced to make senior executive and personal assistant positions redundant, expecting mid-level EAs and PAs to support multiple executives as a result. As the economy recovers and companies are able to relax cost control, hiring is likely to increase across the board, starting with experienced assistants who can ease some of the pressure.

The pay increase was reported in specialist recruitment company Robert Walters’ 2014 Global Salary Survey. James Dalrymple, Director of the firm’s Auckland office, points out that better efficiency and productivity will come to the fore this year and that businesses must ensure employees are motivated and have the right skills to achieve this.

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