The 2024 Accounting Today Salary Survey: Accountants’ voices

When it comes to compensation in the profession, accountants’ opinions wildly vary.

Accounting Today and its parent company Arizent conducted our first inaugural accounting salary survey. It collected responses in May 2024 from over 560 accountants from firms of all sizes regarding their salaries, benefits and career trajectories. 

We asked respondents: What is one thing you think someone entering the accounting profession should know about compensation? Is there anything you wish you had known about salary and compensation before joining the accounting profession?

Their responses ranged from positive reminders that the earning potential at the partner level is worth the long hours and stress, to strong suggestions that young people avoid the accounting profession altogether, and to advice on how to consider salaries, raises and promotions.