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Public Accounting Salaries Expected to Rise 4.9% in 2024

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Base pay for 11 positions in public accounting is projected to rise 4.9% The global talent solutions provider recently released its 2024 Salary Guide , which includes pay expectations for numerous positions in accounting and finance. High: Ten or more years of experience in that position or one similar.

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How Are Public Accounting Salaries Stacking Up For 2023? (Part 4, Hays U.S.)

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The latest group of fortune tellers gazing into crystal balls to figure out what accounting salaries will be like next year are from the recruitment firm Hays U.S. In its 2023 salary guide , Hays provides salary ranges for accounting and finance jobs in nine states, plus the District of Columbia. Texas: $180,000-$210,000.

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How Are Public Accounting Salaries Stacking Up For 2022? (Part 3, Accounting Principals/LHH Recruitment Solutions)

Going Concern

Over the past couple of weeks, we found out from Robert Half that public accounting starting salaries will likely increase in the range of 2.3% in 2023, and that Randstad predicts salaries for traditional public accounting roles will increase for nearly all positions next year. They range from an average of 7.9%

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Why Fraud—Yes, Fraud—Could Boost the Accounting Talent Pipeline

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Students who are exposed to local fraud during their early teenage years are more likely to choose to study subjects like business administration, finance, international business, management, and marketing. Compared to other business majors, however, fraud has a unique effect on the quality of students interested in becoming accountants.

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3 reasons for the accountant shortage (and how CPA firms can attract candidates in 2023)

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Reason #2: Accounting students balk at long hours and unimpressive pay It’s no secret that public accountants work long hours. Accounting students understand they’ll need to “pay their dues” during their first few years before seeing significant pay increases. Salaries matter. Moreover, meet students where they are.

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AICPA Says it Has a Plan to Fix the CPA Talent Shortage

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One of the biggest questions currently being asked by many throughout the accounting profession is, “How can we make accounting more appealing to students?” There’s plenty of accounting jobs out there that need to be filled— more than 300,000 accountants and auditors have left the profession in the past few years.

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Here Are Even More 2024 Accounting Salary Projections

Going Concern

Last month we took a look at the 2024 Robert Half Salary Guide to get an idea what public accounting salaries should be in the range of next year, today it’s a similar report from Addison Group and their 2024 Workforce Planning Guide. The guide covers several industries, we are of course only here for accounting.