Virtual Assistant Statistics (2026)
30+ virtual assistant statistics from the eVirtualAssistants marketplace, computed from 52,212 active VA profiles and 1,563 job posts published between May 2025 and July 2026. All rates hourly USD. Job salaries normalized to hourly (weekly ÷ 40, monthly ÷ 160); fixed-price jobs and rates of $20/hr or more excluded for comparability.
Headline numbers
- $5.00/hr is the median rate virtual assistants are hired at across the eVirtualAssistants marketplace.
- 52,212 active VA profiles and 1,563 job posts power the dataset (May 2025 - July 2026).
- $5.00/hr = $5.00/hr: median asking (VAs) equals median offered (employers), a clear market clearing price.
- $3.13/hr is the 25th percentile asking rate in the Philippines - the entry-level floor for offshore VA hiring.
- $6.25/hr is the 75th percentile asking rate in the Philippines - the experienced-tier ceiling.
- $15.00/hr is the median offered rate for US-located office admin roles - 3x the $5.00/hr offshore median on the same platform.
Rates by country
Median asking rate by country
- Philippines$5.00
- Kenya$7.00
- Nigeria$6.25
- Pakistan$6.00
- India$6.25
- South Africa$6.60
- United Arab Emirates$5.62
- Bangladesh$6.00
Median hourly asking rate per country rollup. US supply excluded from offshore comparisons (distribution truncated by the $20/hr comparability cap).
- $5.00/hr median (avg $5.45/hr) across 43,991 Philippines VA profiles.
- $7.00/hr median (avg $8.07/hr) across 4,296 Kenya VA profiles.
- $6.25/hr median (avg $7.22/hr) across 979 Nigeria VA profiles.
- $6.00/hr median (avg $6.94/hr) across 390 Pakistan VA profiles.
- $6.25/hr median (avg $7.71/hr) across 196 India VA profiles.
- $6.60/hr median (avg $7.58/hr) across 108 South Africa VA profiles.
- $5.62/hr median (avg $6.95/hr) across 100 United Arab Emirates VA profiles.
- $6.00/hr median (avg $7.57/hr) across 100 Bangladesh VA profiles.
- Kenyan VAs ask $7.00/hr at the median - 40% above the Philippines’ $5.00/hr median.
- $15.00/hr median offered for US-located Office Administration roles (39 jobs); $15.00/hr for General Office (30 jobs).
Rates by skill
Top 10 offshore VA skills by job volume - median offered rate
- Virtual Assistant$5.00
- Administrative Support$5.00
- Data Entry$5.00
- Social Media Management$5.00
- Customer Service$5.00
- Social Media Marketing$5.00
- Customer Support$5.00
- Lead Generation$5.00
- Cold Calling$5.00
- Email Handling$5.00
Median hourly offered rate per skill, ranked by job post volume. Offshore-hire skills only.
- Highest-median offshore skill: $5.00/hr for Customer Support (P75 $14.00/hr).
- Lowest-median offshore skill: $4.00/hr for Customer Experience.
- Biggest P75 tail: $14.00/hr for Customer Support - top-quartile hires pay nearly 2.8x the $5.00/hr median.
- Data-entry floor: $3.60/hr - the 25th-percentile asking rate for Data Entry VAs in the Philippines (18,263 profiles).
- 42 distinct offshore skills tracked in the offered-rate dataset.
- Bookkeeping VAs are offered a median $5.00/hr with an average of $5.44/hr.
- Video Editors: median $5.00/hr; P75 $5.00/hr.
- Customer Support: median $5.00/hr, but P75 stretches to $14.00/hr for phone-heavy roles.
Asking vs. offered
Average asking vs. average offered (top skills by job volume)
- Virtual Assistant$5.73$5.52
- Administrative Support$5.76$6.48
- Data Entry$5.32$6.00
- Social Media Management$5.69$4.90
- Customer Service$5.45$5.03
- Social Media Marketing$5.61$4.61
- Customer Support$5.61$7.16
- Lead Generation$5.34$4.86
Philippines VA profiles vs. all job posts on the same skill. Skills with fewer than 500 profiles hidden.
- 4 of 37 tracked skills see employers offering more on average than VAs ask - a hiring-side premium.
- Largest positive spread: +$1.55/hr on Customer Support (avg offer $7.16 vs. avg ask $5.61).
- Largest negative spread: $-1.59/hr on Digital Marketing (avg offer $4.69 vs. avg ask $6.28).
- Median asking and median offered both sit at $5.00/hr across nearly every tracked skill - a rare marketplace where supply and demand converge on the same price.
Cost savings vs. US hire
- Full-time offshore VA at the $5.00/hr median: $866/month (40 hrs/wk x 4.33 weeks).
- Annual cost of a full-time offshore VA at the median: $10,392/year.
- Typical US employee benchmark: $60,000/year loaded (salary, payroll, benefits, overhead).
- Annual savings versus a US hire: $49,608/year (83% lower).
- US-located admin roles offered on the same platform: $15.00/hr median - 3x the $5.00/hr offshore median.
- Entry-level offshore hire at $3.13/hr: $6,505/year full-time.
- Experienced offshore hire at P75 $6.25/hr: $12,990/year full-time.
Methodology
Aggregated from 52,212 active VA profiles and 1,563 job posts published between May 2025 and July 2026. Job salaries normalized to hourly (weekly ÷ 40, monthly ÷ 160); fixed-price jobs and rates of $20/hr or more excluded for comparability. Asking = the rate a VA lists on their profile; Offered = the salary stated on an employer’s job post. Refreshed monthly.
“Virtual assistants are hired at a median rate of $5.00/hr, according to marketplace data from eVirtualAssistants (evirtualassistants.com/virtual-assistant-rates.html).”
“Virtual assistants and employers converge on a $5.00/hr median rate, according to data from 52,212 profiles and 1,563 job posts on eVirtualAssistants (evirtualassistants.com/virtual-assistant-rates.html#asking-vs-offered).”
Explore the full dataset and calculator
Compare rates across skills and countries and estimate a full-time monthly cost with our interactive calculator.
Explore the full dataset and calculator