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CPA salary reports & datasets
A growing library of CPA compensation data. Start with the verified national pay benchmark — free, source-backed, and the anchor under every estimate on the site. Deeper reports follow as more data lands. We never publish a report before its data is real.
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The verified national benchmark
The most reliable national CPA wage source there is — pulled straight from the BLS, served with full provenance so you can cite it with confidence.
National CPA pay benchmark
BLS OEWS · SOC 13-2011 · May 2025
This is the federal wage measurement for accountants & auditors — the broad occupation CPAs belong to — captured directly from the BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics program. It is the trusted anchor under every estimate on this site: a clean, machine-readable file with the full 10th-to-90th percentile range, median, mean, and total employment.
Every row carries its source, source URL, SOC code, and vintage, so it stands up to scrutiny in a model, a brief, or a citation. This is verified data only — not a modeled estimate.
10th pct
$56K
Median
$83,680
90th pct
$144.1K
Employment
1.4M
Free, no signup. View the BLS source · methodology & trust
What’s inside
- National wage percentiles — 10th, 25th, 50th (median), 75th, 90th
- Median & mean, both annual and hourly
- Total U.S. employment for the occupation
- Full provenance — source, source URL, SOC code, and vintage on every row
What it doesn’t include
- State & metro wages — verified BLS measurements, but out of scope for this national-only export
- Role, experience, and credential-premium figures — modeled Estimates, not BLS measurements
- Individual salary submissions — kept private and only ever shown as aggregates
- Company-identified pay — never exported at the employer level
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The complete wage dataset
Every verified BLS OEWS figure behind the site, in one file — the nation, all 50 states + DC, every published metro area, and every NAICS industry. No modeled estimates; direct measurements only.
Accountant & auditor wages by state, metro & industry
BLS OEWS · SOC 13-2011 · May 2025
Mean, median, and the full 10th–90th percentile range plus employment for every area BLS publishes for this occupation. Each row carries its source, vintage, and SOC code, so it stands up in a model, a brief, or a citation. Public-domain BLS data — attribution appreciated, no signup.
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Cost-of-living-adjusted (real) pay dataset
CPA and accountant pay restated in buying-power terms — verified BLS wages divided by the BEA Regional Price Parity for each state and metro. Shows where a salary stretches furthest.
Real pay by state & metro
BLS OEWS May 2025 × BEA Regional Price Parities · nominal, RPP, adjusted, rank shift
Each row pairs the verified nominal median with the area’s BEA price parity and the resulting buying-power-adjusted figure, plus how the area moves between the nominal and real rankings. This is a buying-power comparison, not take-home pay — it excludes taxes, housing choices, and benefits. See the full analysis →
On the roadmap
Reports we’re building next
Honest roadmap — each ships only when its data is verified or submission-backed, never modeled-and-relabeled.
State & metro CPA salary report
Per-area pay by role and experience, built on the verified state & metro wage measurements — ships once the export is packaged.
Big 4 & firm compensation report
Level-by-level firm pay — ships once enough moderated submissions clear the sample-size gate.
CPA total-comp & bonus report
Base, bonus, and total comp by role, industry, and company type — submission-backed.
These are not yet available — they ship only when the underlying data is verified or submission-backed, never modeled-and-relabeled.
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