Salaries · Virtual assistant · Brazil · Updated November 2026
Virtual assistant salary in Brazil
Foreign businesses that hire a virtual assistant in Brazil directly pay $2,500–$3,000 a month full-time, in published job ads and salary guides. Local employers there pay $2.16–$3.68 an hour ($374–$638 a month full-time).
The numbers
| What you're looking at | Per hour | Per month, full-time | Based on |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hiring directly: full-time pay | $14.42–$17.31 | $2,500–$3,000 | 1 published figure |
| Local employers in Brazil | $2.16–$3.68 | $374–$638 | 3 published figures |
| For comparison: employees in the US | $18.67–$27.89 | $3,236–$4,834 | Wages only, before benefits and payroll taxes |
For this role, direct-hire pay in Brazil runs about 5.4× local pay, midpoint to midpoint. Budget from the direct-hire figures, not the local ones.
Brazil against other countries
Of the 9 countries with published direct-hire figures for this role, Brazil has the 9th lowest starting figure.
Every figure behind these numbers
Hiring directly (remote work for foreign businesses)
- range · full-time pay$2,500–$3,000/month LinkedIn Jobs (public job search, remote filter) and the employers' own job pages, live remote job ads by direct foreign employers (ad posted 2026-10-09, live on 2026-10-28). Checked Oct 2026. Monthly USD pay published in 1 live full-time remote job ad by a direct employer based outside Brazil (a US property-management group) for an executive assistant to its CEO, open to a list of 5 Latin American countries that includes Brazil.
Local employers
- average · local employersR$2,316/month Indeed Brasil, 'Assistente administrativo' salary page (updated 19 Oct 2026). Checked Oct 2026. Average pay for 'assistente administrativo' in Brazil, from about 16,000 reported salaries ('16k salários informados')
- middle 50% · local employersR$1,883–R$3,214/month Glassdoor Brasil, 'Assistente Administrativo' salary page (page dated May 2026). Checked Oct 2026. Snippet: average R$ 2.400; typical range R$ 1.883 (25th percentile) to R$ 3.214 (75th percentile), based on about 88,000 anonymously submitted salaries. Some page text labels the figures as yearly; the data block is monthly.
- average · local employersR$2,217/month Catho, 'Assistente Administrativo' profession guide (not dated (checked Oct 2026)). Checked Oct 2026. 'Média Salarial' on Catho's profession guide; no sample size, date or method shown
Sources cover local administrative assistants; none of them publish a separate figure for remote VAs working for foreign clients.
What an agency charges for this role
Published by Outsourcing Insider, a VA MASTERS company. The example below is VA MASTERS' own published rate card, shown because it's public; other agencies' prices vary. About us
| Agency | Per hour | Per month, 160 hours | What's included |
|---|---|---|---|
| VA MASTERS Parent company | $6.50–$10.00 | $1,040–$1,600 | Recruitment, contract and payments, time tracking, an account manager and replacement at no extra cost. No setup fee. Source: VA MASTERS pricing page, checked Oct 2026. |
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FAQ
How much does a virtual assistant cost in Brazil?
Hiring directly, foreign businesses pay $2,500–$3,000 a month full-time (LinkedIn Jobs, checked Oct 2026). Local employers in Brazil pay $2.16–$3.68 an hour ($374–$638 a month full-time), which is local pay, not the rate for remote work for a foreign client.
What is the monthly salary of a virtual assistant in Brazil?
Published full-time pay for remote work for foreign businesses is $2,500–$3,000 a month. Local employers pay $374–$638 a month. Both use 40 hours a week and are in USD.
Why is hiring directly different from local pay in Brazil?
They measure two different markets. Local pay is what employers in Brazil pay local staff. Direct-hire figures come from job ads, salary guides and surveys for remote work for foreign businesses. For this role the second runs about 5.4× the first, midpoint to midpoint, so local pay isn't a good guide to what a remote hire will cost.
How does Brazil compare with hiring a virtual assistant in the US?
Employees' wages in the US run $18.67–$27.89 an hour for the middle 50% of workers, before benefits and payroll taxes. Hiring directly in Brazil, published figures come to $14.42–$17.31 an hour, with full-time pay converted to an hourly figure. That's pay only: you'd still do the recruiting, contract and payments yourself.
What does an agency charge for a virtual assistant?
Agencies set their own prices, and many don't publish them. As one published example, VA MASTERS (the parent company of this site's publisher) lists $6.50–$10.00 an hour for its Administrative & Operations Support category, all-inclusive. Ask any agency what its rate covers: recruiting, replacement, payroll and fees.