Most EAs are making career decisions in the dark, without real data on what the market pays, what actually drives high compensation, and what the numbers would tell them if they knew where to look.

I sat down with Alicia Fairclough and Yvette Lamb — the two EAs behind the EA Salary Survey, the only compensation data in our profession built by assistants with no recruiter, no employer, no spin, to break down what the real numbers show.