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See their work and rates, message the ones worth talking to, and hire without a recruiter in the middle.
What role do you want to hire for?
Businesses like Pool-ology, Celebrate Dental, Anzenna, Press Advantage, Wraith Brokerage, Ride The Wave, Alarm Masters, HireApp, BuildCasa, FLLR Consulting, Metro Wireless, Theta, Indio Management, Eversite, Rig Hut, ActionTrac, Basis Health, Tenant Planet hire on Pavago.
$3k–$3.5k/mo
Calendar management across multiple time zones. Organizational and process optimization skills.
$8.5k–$9k/mo
Executive support experience. Organizational and problem-solving abilities.
$8k–$8.5k/mo
Executive support experience. Organizational and process improvement skills.
$2.5k–$3k/mo
Executive assistance and administrative. Multitasking and organizational skills.
$0.5k–$1k/mo
MS Office and Google Sheets. Executive support experience.
$1.5k–$2k/mo
Executive support experience, and key technical tools (Outlook, Teams, Salesforce).
$1k–$1.5k/mo
Calendar management skills. Communication and correspondence management.
$5k–$5.5k/mo
Executive support experience. Organizational and problem-solving skills.
$0.5k–$1k/mo
Executive and administrative support background. Communication and coordination skills.
$1.5k–$2k/mo
Executive support experience, and process improvement.
$0.5k–$1k/mo
Executive Assistant experience (7+ years). Email and calendar management.
$1.5k–$2k/mo
Microsoft Office and Google Workspace. Calendar and meeting management skills.
They take the work that's eating your calendar and run it without you. A strong executive assistant handles the operational layer that lets you actually do the job you were supposed to be doing:
Managing your calendar, prioritizing meetings against actual goals, and saying no on your behalf
Handling inbox triage, drafting replies in your voice, and routing things that need your attention
Coordinating travel, expenses, vendor relationships, and the dozen small things that pile up
Running point on internal communication so the team isn't waiting on you for every decision
Organizing your week around the work that actually moves the needle, not what's loudest
A strong EA reads your business well enough to make calls without checking. They learn what you'd say yes or no to and start doing it themselves. Most founders and senior executives hire one once they've calculated what an hour of their time is worth versus what an EA costs and the math becomes embarrassing.
The tell is how they describe past principals. A strong EA talks about their last executive as a partnership, not a job description. They remember the specifics of what they ran and why. When you interview, look for:
A track record with one or two executives over multiple years, not job-hopping every six months
Comfort with autonomy. The good ones make decisions and tell you, instead of asking permission for everything
A clear sense of what's confidential and what isn't. Discretion isn't a soft skill, it's the whole job
Avoid anyone who frames EA work as glorified scheduling.
One flat fee when you hire, whatever the rate. No percentage of salary.
Get Started
Describe the role like you'd say it out loud. Get matched candidates in under a minute.
See profile previews with experience, skills and rates, watch intro videos, and message anyone directly.
Book and run the calls yourself, on your own read.
Pick someone and send a locally compliant contract for e-signature inside Pavago. Payroll runs through Plane, free for the first 60 days.
Traditional recruiter
Job boards
Hiring locally
ScoutOS
A recruiter's fee scales with the salary, so the better the hire, the more it costs you. On ScoutOS it's flat $1,999 whether the person earns $40,000 or $120,000.
Because you see the actual person, their work, and their rate before you talk to anyone — no blind trust in a recruiter's shortlist.
Every profile goes through skills verification and reference checks before it’s searchable. Roughly 1 in 300 applicants makes it onto the platform.
LATAM, Africa, South Asia, and Europe are all searchable and filterable right on the platform.
Your replacement is free in the first 60 days, and for as long as you keep the $149/mo plan for that hire after that — no separate agency fee, no starting the search over from zero.
Your hire’s contract and offer letter come from a locally compliant template, sent for e-signature inside Pavago. Payroll runs through our partner Plane (plane.com), which pays contractors in 240+ countries. You pay your hire directly from your own Plane account, so Pavago never touches the money. Using Plane costs you nothing for the first 60 days (Pavago covers it), and after that an optional $149/mo per hire keeps it running, cancel anytime. The Plane account stays yours even if you leave Pavago, and you can always run payroll yourself instead.
$99/mo to message and interview candidates (searching, profile previews and intro videos are free), plus a flat $1,999 placement fee when your hire signs — no percentage of salary. After the first 60 days, an optional $149/mo per hire keeps payroll and free replacements going.
Search and get matched candidates in under a minute. Most teams shortlist and interview within a week.
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Free for job seekers, always. Nobody at Pavago will ask you for money.
