Which pays more, Executive Assistant or Security Officer?

The median advertised salary for each is in the table above, along with the 25th and 75th percentiles so you can see the spread rather than one number.

Which has more openings?

Both counts are live and computed at the same moment, so the comparison is like for like.

Postings are read from company career systems continuously; the age row shows how old the listings themselves are.

Side by side

Executive Assistant vs Security Officer

Security Officer pays more: a median of $90,500 against $86,500. There is 2.0× more demand for Security Officer. Listings for Security Officer move faster — median age 48 days against 88.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	Executive Assistant	Security Officer	Gap
Open postings	11,495	22,900	-11,405
Posted this week	857	1,819
Median salary	$86,500	$90,500	$-4k
25th percentile	$68.5k	$71.5k
75th percentile	$108k	$112k
Salary disclosed	3.4%	3.6%
Remote share	10.7%	8.8%	+1.9pp
Median age of posting	88d	48d
Open over 60 days	45.1%	37.5%
Visa sponsorship	10.4%	13.3%

Pay

Pay distribution

Executive Assistant

$39k$150k

Security Officer

$41k$157k

Freshness

How old the listings are

Executive Assistant

just posted88d median90d+

Security Officer

just posted48d median90d+

Demand

What each side asks for

Executive Assistant — technologies

Swift

72.0%

Spark

65.8%

AWS

59.6%

HubSpot

53.4%

Azure

47.2%

Kubernetes

41.0%

JavaScript

34.8%

Security Officer — technologies

Azure

72.0%

PostgreSQL

65.8%

Python

59.6%

Terraform

53.4%

Spark

47.2%

GCP

41.0%

SQL

34.8%

Executive Assistant — employers

Quarry Analytics

9.4%

Northwind Systems

8.7%

Aperture Labs

8.0%

Brightline Retail

7.2%

Vantage Logistics

6.5%

Rivergate Media

5.8%

Umbra Security

5.1%

Security Officer — employers

Cobalt Financial

9.4%

Northwind Systems

8.7%

Solstice Biotech

8.0%

Halcyon Energy

7.2%

Fairmount Legal

6.5%

Pinewood Education

5.8%

Aperture Labs

5.1%

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Other Operations & Admin comparisons

Both sides are counted the same way on the same day, so the gap is comparable even where the absolute numbers move. Salary figures use only postings that publish a range — the disclosure rate is in the table because a median over 20% of a cohort is a weaker number than one over 70%.