Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping & payroll services

Industry Group

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Workforce Population
1.03M
2021
Average Employee Age
43.6
2021
Estimated Job Growth
1.72%
10-Year Projection
Average Salary
$77,985
2021
Average Male Salary
$105,819
2021
Average Female Salary
$60,928
2021

About

The top three occupations in the Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping & payroll services Industry Group are accountants & auditors, bookkeeping, accounting, & auditing clerks, and tax preparers. On average, full-time employees in the Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping & payroll services Industry Group work 44 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $87,893. Part-time employees in the same industry work 21.7 hours and earn an average annual salary of $29,197.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping & payroll services Industry Group are Ridgewood Village, Glen Rock & Westwood Boroughs PUMA, NJ, North of I-30 PUMA, TX (79500US4802313), and South of I-10 & Inside Loop I-610 PUMA, TX.

The workforce of Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping & payroll services Industry Group in 2021 was 1,033,899 people, with 62% woman, and 38% men.

In 2021, 75.6% of the workforce in the Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping & payroll services Industry Group was White (781,455 people), of which 61.2% were women and 38.8% men.

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A snapshot of workforce, wages, and opportunities in the Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping & payroll services Industry Group.

The workforce in Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping & payroll services Industry Group was 1,033,899 people and is concentrated in California (126,922 workers). The average annual salary was $77,985, being $18,389 more than the national average salary, which was $59,596.

Monthly Employment

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4.59%
Year-over-year growth
Employment change between February 2022 and February 2023

As of February 2023, there are 902k people employed in the Accounting, Tax Preparation, Bookkeeping, and Payroll Services industry. This represents a 4.59% increase in employment when compared to February 2022.

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Employment by Location

The states that concentrated the largest workforce in 2021 were California (127k), Texas (88.3k), and New York (82.9k).

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Yearly Wage Ranking

In 2021, Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping & payroll services Industry Group had an average annual wage of $77,985, $18,389 more than the average national salary of $59,596.

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Wage Distribution

0.468
WAGE GINI

Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping & payroll services has a wage GINI of 0.468, which is less than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping & payroll services (shown in red) in comparison to the national average for those wage buckets (shown in gray).

The graphic shows the distribution of average salaries by buckets for Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping & payroll services Industry Group workers compared to the entire workforce in the country.

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A review of jobs and wages in the Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping & payroll services Industry Group.

Accountants & auditors are the most common position with 449,918 workers, but the Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping & payroll services Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Bookkeeping, accounting, & auditing clerks and Tax preparers.

The highest average salary in Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping & payroll services goes to Education administrators.

Occupations Distribution

The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping & payroll services Industry Group according to occupations. In 2021, the occupations that concentrated the largest number of employees in this industry were accountants & auditors (449,918 people), bookkeeping, accounting, & auditing clerks (95,816 people), and tax preparers (72,261 people)

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Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$105,819
AVERAGE MALE SALARY
±$4,546
$60,928
AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY
±$1,950

On average, Male workers in the Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping & payroll services Industry Group make 1.74 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping & payroll services Industry Group.

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Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping & payroll services Industry Group. Based on estimates from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, this section indicates the amount of money spent by a specific industry in other industries.

The industrial flow illustrates the intermediate inputs and the use of outputs of the Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping & payroll services Industry Group.

The Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping & payroll services Industry Group gets the most input, by its share of the cost of all intermediate inputs, from the Professional and business services Industry.

California and Florida stand out as the states with the largest number of establishments in the Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping & payroll services Industry Group.

Industrial Flow

The closest comparable data for Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping & payroll services is from Professional, Scientific & Management, and Administrative & Waste Management Services.

Professional and business services has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping & payroll services Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping & payroll services Industry Group is Professional and business services.

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Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping & payroll services is from Professional, Scientific & Management, and Administrative & Waste Management Services.

The Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping & payroll services Industry Group gets the most input, by its share of the cost of all intermediate inputs, from the Professional and business services Industry. This visualization does not include labor and capital costs.

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Use of Output by Other Industries

The closest comparable data for Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping & payroll services is from Professional, Scientific & Management, and Administrative & Waste Management Services.

The Professional and business services Industry purchases the greatest share of products and services from the Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping & payroll services Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping & payroll services Industry Group for final consumption by consumers, businesses, or government are not included here.

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Establishments

States with more establishments in 2016
  1. 34,526
  2. 22,174
  3. 20,794

The charts shows the distribution of establishments in the Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping & payroll services industry by states and the number of establishments according to size.

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Demographic information on the Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping & payroll services Industry Group in the US.

Of the total workforce, 62% corresponds to women and 38% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $105,819 and $60,928.

80% of workers have a bachelors degree, graduate degree or some college.

Gender and Age

641,066
Women
62%
392,833
Men
38%

The workforce of Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping & payroll services industry in 2021 was 1,033,899 people, with 62% woman, and 38% men.

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Races

In 2021, 75.6% of the workforce in the Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping & payroll services industry was White (781,455 people), of which 61.2% were women and 38.8% men.

Other races that concentrated a significant number of workers were Asian and Black.

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Educational Levels

The main educational levels achieved by the Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping & payroll services workers in 2021 were bachelors degree (433,555 people), graduate degree (232,970 people), and some college (160,261 people).

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timeline-line-chartProjections

Growth projections of the Accounting and bookkeeping services industry, both by number of employees and output, from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. The national workforce is projected to grow 7.66% in the next ten years. The Accounting and bookkeeping services industry has a lower projected workforce growth at 1.72%. Its projected 10-year growth in output (22.6%) is lower than the projected national growth in output (24.2%).

Job Growth

For growth projections, the closest comparable industry reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics is Accounting and bookkeeping services.
1.72%
Estimated Job Growth
10-year Projection
7.66%
National Growth
10-year Projection

This line chart shows the projected 10-year growth in the number of jobs for Accounting and bookkeeping services. This industry is expected to grow less than than 7.66%, the average rate of national job growth.

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Output Growth

For growth projections, the closest comparable industry reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics is Accounting and bookkeeping services.
22.6%
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10-year Projection

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