Anyone who would talk about it would be a fool. You don’t bite the hand that feeds you. You’ll get celebrity assistants to talk because celebrities are insane (not all). But no family assistant, or estate manager or chief of staff or house manager would ever say a word unless they planned on never working in private service again.

I’m on the fringes of that world and while you present those salaries as absurd, these private service people are some of the most capable, intelligent service workers I’ve ever met. They are unbelievably versatile and problem solve spontaneously while maintaining grace and poise.