Research standard

How we research jobs and markets

Our method is designed to avoid the most common career-content errors: stale vacancies, unsupported salaries, generic employer claims and opinions presented as facts.

01

Source

Prefer original employer pages, government portals, official occupation data, legislation, regulators and published salary research.

02

Classify

Record whether information is current, historical, official, employer-provided, calculated or editorial.

03

Normalise

Keep base salary, super, package, FTE, bonus, classification and contract period distinct.

04

Interpret

Assess reporting line, executive level, workload signals, governance, eligibility, risk and likely evidence.

05

Review

Display a review date and revisit time-sensitive vacancies. Closed vacancies move from current opportunity to case-study status.

06

Correct

Assess correction requests against primary evidence and update material errors promptly.

Source hierarchy

What carries the most weight

  1. 1Original employer vacancy and attached position description
  2. 2Official government portal, regulator, annual report or occupation dataset
  3. 3Employer careers, leadership and strategy pages
  4. 4Recognised salary research with visible methodology
  5. 5Authorised recruiter advertisement
  6. 6Secondary job aggregator or media report
  7. 7Editorial inference, explicitly labelled

Known limitations

Australia does not publish a perfectly isolated Executive Assistant occupation series. Official Personal Assistant data is used as a proxy only where clearly labelled.

Job advertisements show offered ranges and requirements at one point in time; they do not establish a complete market median. Employer structures and executive portfolios can change between reviews.

Editorial analysis predicts likely operating conditions from available evidence. It is not a statement by the employer and should be tested in interview.

Open the official occupation proxy