Accountants and Auditors

What do Accountants and Auditors do?

Examine, analyze, and interpret accounting records to prepare financial statements, give advice, or audit and evaluate statements prepared by others. Install or advise on systems of recording costs or other financial and budgetary data. Excludes “Tax Examiners and Collectors, and Revenue Agents” (13-2081).

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, SOC 2018 (SOC 13-2011)

What our data shows for Accountants and Auditors

RoleHue publishes 735 salary records for Accountants and Auditors, across 21 cities. Weighted by how many records each city contributes, the band runs from $95,824 at the 25th percentile to $140,281 at the 75th, a spread of $44,457 around $116,849. Each of those three figures averages the city-level percentiles rather than ranking the pooled records, and weights each city by how many records it holds, so the cities we hold most data for pull them hardest. Measured against that $116,849 figure rather than in dollars (38% of it), that spread is wider than 70% of the roles we cover.

Tysons, VA carries the highest median we hold for the role at $146,117; Tamuning, GU the lowest at $41,309, a gap of $104,808. The middle half of those city medians, weighted by how many records each city contributes, spans $34,411, narrower than the $44,457 band within cities: for Accountants and Auditors, where a record sits within its own metro separates our numbers more than which metro it came from.

No single metro carries most of this: the largest share is New York, NY, with 163 of the 735 records we publish for this role (22%). Evidence clears 25 records in 11 of the 21 cities; for the rest, the city median we show rests on fewer records than that.

Salary Overview

Weighted average across all cities with available data. Based on 735 data points.

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