Want Anne Hathaway’s job from The Devil Wears Prada IRL? Vogue’s Anna Wintour is looking for a new assistant, but is the up-to US$80,000 salary worth it to work for ‘Nuclear Wintour’?

Gird your loins – Vogue’s editor-in-chief Anna Wintour (aka Miranda Priestly’s inspiration) is looking for a new assistant.

According to a job listing on Condé Nast’s careers site, the assistant would serve the editor-in-chief of American Vogue and the global chief content officer (both presumably refer to Wintour, who was given the CCO title a few years earlier).

The salary is listed as US$60,000 to US$80,000, though assistants in the past have reported receiving lower starting salaries (one assistant revealed she received US$25,000 in 1993, around US$54,000 today, according to E! Online).

Responsibilities include calendar management, fielding calls and emails, and assisting with meeting arrangements.

If assistant Andy Sachs’ experience in the movie The Devil Wears Prada is anything to go by, working conditions might be extremely un-chill.

According to a biography about Wintour titled Anna, one assistant claimed she lost 8lbs within her first two weeks on the job, and another said she was instructed never to leave her desk, even to use the bathroom, if another assistant was not around.

Another former staffer said the job was so exhausting she would sometimes lay down to rest on a cold stone floor when Wintour was at lunch.

Women also spoke about being subject to “The Look” – what staffers call Wintour’s non-verbal way of sizing up their daily outfits. One woman even told The Cut that she spent over US$5,000 on an interview outfit in a bid to make a good impression.

The biography also revealed that the editor’s icy demeanour earned her nicknames like “Nuclear Wintour” and “The Wintour of our Discontent”.