As of this writing, we have 461 participants in the Virtual Assistant Industry Survey. We’re shooting for 500 so we’re going to hold the deadline over to September 5. You can help get those last 38 by encouraging all your Virtual Assistant buddies to participate. Shoot an email to the Virtual Assistants you know, and post announcements and reminders on the forums and listservs you belong to. Lots of folks want to participate but forget and will appreciate the reminder.
I occasionally view the statistics to see what trends are emerging and thought I’d share a few of the more interesting trends with you:
- There’s a growing Virtual Assistant presence in South Africa.
- Virtual Assistants affiliated with the VACOC and AssistU are commanding higher rates and making leagues more money in annual earnings than the rest of the Virtual Assistant body while at the same time working with fewer clients (almost predominately on some form of monthly retainer).
- The majority of Virtual Assistants in the mainstream Virtual Assistant body are making less than $10,000 a year.
- Those who identify themselves as Virtual Assistants, but who work on a project basis, report working with multitudes of clients, yet are still predominately earning less than $10,000 a year.
Definitely some food for thought, isn’t it?
PS: Our U.K. and Ireland Virtual Assistants are not well-represented. If you belong to any of the U.K. or Ireland associations, listservs and forums, please let everyone know about the survey and encourage them to participate. I know that the U.K. is one of the top areas for Virtual Assistants, but they won’t rank on the survey unless we get more participation on there. As it is, South Africa is beating out the U.K., Ireland and Australia in the rankings and that’s what will get reported in the media.
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