What a family office executive assistant does
A family office executive assistant keeps one principal's days in order: the calendar, travel, correspondence, and the papers for meetings with the family's accountants and lawyers.
By L.A. Williams Placement. Updated November 2026.
The main duties
- Keeping the calendar, often across time zones, and rebooking travel when plans change.
- Reading the correspondence first and deciding what needs the principal's attention.
- Preparing papers before meetings with the family's accountants, lawyers and advisers.
Compared with a corporate assistant
The difference is the size of the office. A corporate assistant works within a company's systems and policies and can hand work to other assistants, but in a family office there is rarely anyone to hand it to, so one person covers more kinds of task. The priorities are the family's rather than a company's.
What does the role pay in Los Angeles?
The Bureau of Labor Statistics put the median for executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants in the Los Angeles area at $82,850 a year in May 2025. That figure covers every kind of employer, not family offices alone.
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