Introduction
“ The findings of this survey indicate that corporate event activity, whilst not spectacular, is nevertheless recovering.”
Introduction
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics( ABS) there are approximately 50,000 businesses in Australia that employ between 20 and 199 people. Each business will have a dedicated administrator or assistant working closely with the most senior executive in the business.
There are another 3,750 businesses that employ more than two hundred people( ABS), and each of these businesses will have a number of executive level assistants working closely board level executives.
Business size by employee is the most reliable method to estimate the population of EAs, because the higher the number of employees the more pressured senior executives become to better optimise their time and take on a trusted assistant to support them and delegate certain tasks to. Using this method of estimation there is a minimum total population of 60,000( possibly up to 100,000 c-suite) executive level assistants in Australia.
Australia based EAs were contacted for this survey and 115 responded. Non-EA and incomplete responses were discounted, as well as EAs working within the meetings industry, leaving insights from 102 EAs.
Previous years surveys were conducted in the months of September and October. This survey took place over three weeks in December and January.
26 Executive PA | Summer Issue 2026