Time Etc Pricing: Time Etc Virtual Assistant Cost per Hour and per Month

Time etc costs $390 a month for 10 hours, $760 for 20 hours, $1,480 for 40 hours and $2,160 for 60 hours of a dedicated US virtual assistant, which Time etc itself breaks down as $39, $38, $37 and $36 an hour. There is no setup fee, you pay the first month to start, plans renew monthly, and you can cancel with one email and no notice period. Time is tracked by the second, so you only burn plan hours on minutes your assistant actually works.

That makes Time etc one of the few US assistant services you can price without a sales call. The question most buyers actually have is not the list price but what it adds up to over a year, which plan fits, and whether some of those hours would be cheaper spent elsewhere. This page works through all three.

How much does Time etc cost per month?

These are the four plans on Time etc's pricing page. The yearly column is simply twelve months of the monthly price, because Time etc does not advertise an annual discount.

Plan	Hours a month	Monthly price	Effective hourly rate	Twelve months
Ten hours	10	$390	$39	$4,680
Twenty hours	20	$760	$38	$9,120
Forty hours	40	$1,480	$37	$17,760
Sixty hours	60	$2,160	$36	$25,920

Two things stand out. First, the volume discount is tiny: going from the smallest plan to the largest saves three dollars an hour, about 8 percent. You should pick a plan by the hours of work you really have, not in pursuit of a better rate. Second, every plan comes with the same service: a dedicated US assistant, expert matching, free extra assistants on the same plan, sharing with your team, and a satisfaction guarantee. You are not unlocking features by paying more, only hours.

Time etc also says it does bigger plans than sixty hours, and will build a custom plan on request. Those are not priced publicly, so above sixty hours you are back to a quote.

Is there a setup fee or a contract?

No setup fee. Time etc's FAQ says you just pay for your first month to get started. There is no long-term contract either: plans renew automatically each month, and the FAQ says cancelling takes one email or call with no notice period. You can also grow or shrink the plan at any time, and add extra hours to cover a busy month.

Before you pay anything, Time etc offers to do your first task for free with no credit card. It is one task, not a trial month, but it is a fair way to judge the quality of the writing and the speed of the turnaround before you commit $390.

How does Time etc bill your hours?

Your assistant keeps a running total of time spent on your tasks, measured by the second, and you can see it on your dashboard whenever you like. Time etc calls this transparent to-the-second billing. It is fairer than the fifteen or thirty minute blocks some agencies use, because a two minute calendar change costs you two minutes.

It also means every small request draws down the plan. A dozen quick jobs a day, each a few minutes, add up fast: ten requests at four minutes each is forty minutes, which on the Twenty hours plan is about $25 of a $760 month, every working day. Look at the dashboard after the first week and you will know exactly where the hours are going, which is the most useful number you will get from the whole exercise.

Do unused Time etc hours roll over?

Time etc's pricing FAQ says the hours you do not use roll into your next month. The pricing page itself lists "unused hours rollover" on the Twenty, Forty and Sixty hour plans, but the line does not appear on the Ten hours card. If you plan to start small and expect uneven months, ask on the sign-up call how rollover applies to your plan and what happens to any banked hours if you cancel. Get the answer in writing; it is the one term that changes what a quiet month costs you.

Which Time etc plan do you actually need?

Count, do not guess. Keep a log for one normal week of every task you would hand over, and note how long it took. Multiply by four and a bit. Most people who do this find two things: the total is lower than they expected, because the tasks they dread feel longer than they are, and a large share of it is the same few jobs repeating.

• Ten hours ($390) is about thirty minutes a working day. It suits a solo founder offloading travel, research and a handful of calls.
• Twenty hours ($760) is about an hour a day, the common starting point for a busy executive or a small team sharing one assistant.
• Forty hours ($1,480) is about two hours a day and usually means the assistant is running an inbox and calendar, not just taking requests.
• Sixty hours ($2,160) is about three hours a day, close to a part-time staff member.

Time etc cost vs hiring an assistant

Time etc's own pricing page quotes Payscale for an average experienced executive assistant salary of $60,500 in 2026. Set against that, even the Sixty hours plan at $25,920 a year is well under half the salary, before you add payroll taxes, benefits, equipment and recruiting time to the employee side. That is the honest case for an agency: you pay only for the minutes worked, and holiday and sickness cover is built in.

The comparison flips when you need close to full-time hours. At $36 an hour, 160 hours a month would run about $5,760, or roughly $69,000 a year, which is above the salary benchmark. Time etc is a part-time purchase, and it says as much by not listing plans above sixty hours.

Time etc vs BELAY vs software on cost

The service people most often weigh against Time etc is BELAY, and on cost they are built very differently. BELAY publishes no rate card and quotes after a consultation; its own FAQ puts US virtual assistants at $1,200 to $3,000 a month. Our BELAY pricing breakdown covers what is documented and what is not.

Route	What it costs	How it is priced	Best when
Time etc	$390 to $2,160 a month for 10 to 60 hours	Published hours blocks, billed by the second	You want a US assistant and a price in writing up front
BELAY	Quoted. BELAY cites $1,200 to $3,000 a month for the US market	Custom quote after a call	You also need bookkeeping, payroll or finance roles
Office assistant software	$149 to $399 a month, flat	Published plan per office	Most of the hours go on repeatable written work

Why other sites show different Time etc prices

Search for Time etc pricing and you will see $360 for ten hours and $660 for twenty quoted confidently in reviews and summaries. Those are out of date. The plan cards on Time etc's pricing page read $390 and $760 today. Most of the pages ranking for this query are written by rival virtual assistant agencies, which have little reason to keep a competitor's prices current. Always check the vendor's own page before you budget, and treat any review that does not link to it with suspicion.

How to spend less on a Time etc plan

Go back to your one-week log and sort each task into two columns. One column is work that needs a person: phone calls, judgment, negotiation, personal errands, anything new. The other is work that follows the same pattern every time: routine replies, scheduling and rescheduling, filing attachments, updating a spreadsheet, chasing someone who has not answered.

The second column is usually the bigger one, and on a per-second meter it is where most of your plan goes. Take it off the assistant and you can often drop a plan tier. Moving from forty hours to twenty saves $720 a month, which is more than the most expensive plan of the software that would absorb the routine half.

Small setup work helps too. Time etc can give your assistant a branded email address at your company, which means their messages go out under your name. Rather than paying assistant minutes to hand-format signatures for each new mailbox, set one email signature for everyone on the domain and let new addresses pick it up automatically.

The flat-price option for the repeatable half

OfficeAgent covers that second column at a published flat price: $149 a month for one person and $399 a month for an office of up to ten teammates, or $119 and $319 a month billed yearly. It drafts replies in your voice, books and moves meetings on Google or Outlook calendars, files documents that arrive by email, keeps spreadsheets current and writes follow-ups when a thread goes quiet. Every outgoing step waits for your one-click approval, and every plan has a 14-day money-back guarantee.

For scale, the $399 Office plan costs about the same as ten and a half hours on Time etc's Twenty hours rate. It does not make phone calls or judgment calls, so it is not a replacement for a good assistant. It is the reason you might need twenty hours of one instead of forty. Our full Time etc comparison sets the two side by side feature by feature, the virtual assistant software comparison covers the wider category, and our pricing page has the plan detail.