Accountant Salary & Career Guide

What 667 live Accountant postings ask for and pay: salary by years of experience, skills, education and the employers hiring.

Open roles: 667
Employers: 416
Remote: 9%
Typical pay: $65k–125k
Verified live (7d): 625

Pay is advertised by 48% of these postings (317 of 667 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	70
3–5 years	$85k	170
6–9 years	$89k	10

Skills in demand

Across 616 accountant postings that named at least one skill

Microsoft Excel69%
CPA57%
GAAP53%
Enterprise Resource Planning34%
Oracle NetSuite18%
SAP16%
Intuit QuickBooks12%
IFRS7.0%
SOX5.4%
Oracle Hyperion4.9%

Experience asked for

Minimum years named in the posting · 502 postings stated one

0–2 years: 29%
3–5 years: 66%
6–9 years: 3.8%
10+ years: 1.4%

Work arrangement

Where the work is done · 325 postings stated one

Remote: 19%
Hybrid: 46%
On-site: 35%

Education

The floor the posting sets · 436 postings stated one

High school: 1.4%
Associate: 0.7%
Bachelor's: 97%
Master's: 0.7%
Doctorate: 0.2%

Employers hiring for this

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