Virtual assistant and remote admin jobs
Virtual assistant and remote administrative roles from live listings, each labelled with where the employer says you can live.
Covers virtual assistant, executive assistant, administrative support, data entry and operations assistant roles.
139
live virtual assistant roles
21
found in the last day
Where you can actually work from
Most job boards call all of these simply "remote". These are the live counts for virtual assistant roles right now.
- Work from home111
- Hybrid15
- Region Restricted9
- Work from anywhere3
- Undisclosed1
What remote virtual assistant jobs pay
Typically $130k a year, with the middle half between $69k and $144k. Based on 18 live listings that publish a salary in US dollars.
See pay across every roleOpen virtual assistant roles
Where employers say you have to live
The places most often named in live virtual assistant adverts that restrict residence. Counted from the advert’s own wording.
- United States 34
- Philippines 16
- South Africa 7
- Peru 4
- Mexico City, Mexico 4
- Mexico 3
- Colombia 3
- Bogotá, Colombia 3
- South Africa - Cape Town 2
- Nicaragua 2
Seniority mix
Read from the employer’s own job titles. Titles with no seniority word are not counted, so these will not add up to 139.
- Senior5
- Lead / principal8
- Head / director3
Working hours
59 live virtual assistant adverts say something about hours, and 1 of those describe working asynchronously. The rest say nothing, which usually means normal hours in the employer’s own timezone, worth asking before you accept.
Employers hiring most right now
- Hire Overseas11 roles
- HireHawk8 roles
- Jobs for Humanity7 roles
- VirtuHire5 roles
- Scale-X Solutions4 roles
- Pineapple | Virtual Assistant Hub3 roles
- Virtual Coworker3 roles
- Affirm2 roles
- Ataraxis Management2 roles
- Berry Virtual2 roles
- ElevenLabs2 roles
- Gainsight2 roles
How to spot a legit remote virtual assistant job
Most bad remote-job experiences are not scams, they are honest listings that were vague about location, or filled weeks ago. These are the checks worth running before you apply.
- Does the listing say where you can live?
- A real employer names the countries, regions or timezones they can hire in, because employment law forces them to. A listing that says only "remote" and nothing else is the most common reason people waste an application.
- Is there a named company behind it?
- Legitimate roles name the employer and link to their own careers page. Anonymous listings, or ones that only reveal the company after you pay or sign up, are the clearest warning sign there is.
- Are you ever asked for money?
- No genuine employer charges for training, equipment, a background check or a starter kit. Any request for payment, cryptocurrency or bank details before a signed contract is a scam, without exception.
- Does the pay match the work?
- Very high pay for very little skill is the oldest trick in the book. Compare the figure against what the same role actually pays elsewhere before taking it seriously.
- Was the interview real?
- Being hired purely over a chat app, with no video call and no questions about your experience, is not a hiring process. Reshipping, payment-processing and "buy equipment with this cheque" roles all start this way.
- Is the listing still open?
- Boards are full of roles that closed months ago. Check that the employer's own careers page still shows it before spending an hour on an application.
Nomaders does the first and last of those checks for you: every listing is read for what the employer actually says about location, and constantly re-checked so closed roles drop out. Browse the live roles.
Remote virtual assistant jobs: common questions
Are virtual assistant jobs legitimate?
Genuine ones are, and they are a common way into remote work. This page only lists roles traced back to an employer's own listing, and applications go to the employer rather than through Nomaders.
Can I do virtual assistant work from any country?
Some employers allow it, many want overlap with their working hours because the work is reactive. The timezone the advert asks for is shown on the role.
Do virtual assistant jobs need experience?
Often not. Organisation, clear written English and reliability matter more, which is why these roles attract a lot of applicants quickly.
What do virtual assistant jobs pay?
Pay varies enormously by the country the employer hires from, and many adverts publish an hourly rate rather than a salary. Only stated figures are shown here.
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How Nomaders checks these roles
Listings are collected from employers' own career pages and remote job boards, around the clock. Each one is read for what the employer actually says about location, and labelled accordingly, a role is only called work from anywhere when the listing says so in plain words. Nothing on this page is estimated.
What "remote" actually means