Accountant Salary & Career Guide

What 712 live Accountant postings ask for and pay: salary by years of experience, skills, education and the employers hiring.

Open roles: 712
Employers: 450
Remote: 9%
Typical pay: $66k–125k
Verified live (7d): 677

Pay is advertised by 48% of these postings (340 of 712 in USD), so read it as what is offered rather than what is paid.

Pay by experience

Median advertised base, from postings that disclosed a range in USD · pick a band to read the rest of this page for it

Experience	Median	Postings
0–2 years	$72k	75
3–5 years	$85k	179
6–9 years	$98k	12

Skills in demand

Across 655 accountant postings that named at least one skill

Microsoft Excel69%
CPA58%
GAAP53%
Enterprise Resource Planning35%
Oracle NetSuite19%
SAP16%
Intuit QuickBooks11%
IFRS6.9%
SOX5.8%
Oracle Hyperion4.7%

Experience asked for

Minimum years named in the posting · 535 postings stated one

0–2 years: 29%
3–5 years: 65%
6–9 years: 3.7%
10+ years: 1.7%

Work arrangement

Where the work is done · 351 postings stated one

Remote: 18%
Hybrid: 48%
On-site: 34%

Education

The floor the posting sets · 471 postings stated one

High school: 1.3%
Associate: 0.6%
Bachelor's: 97%
Master's: 0.6%
Doctorate: 0.2%

Employers hiring for this

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