<p>Cyan, that’s not true. Payscale has a different listing for bookkeepers, jr. accountants, and staff accountants.</p>
<p>A bookkeeper’s salary is 20-30K
A jr. accountant’s salary is 30-40K
A staff accoutant’s salry is 40-50K
A CPA’s salary is 50-70K</p>
<p>Moreover, the salary data nepatsfan listed includes entry-level, mid-level, and senior level roles. If you go to the link and click on “by years experience” it will show you that true entry-level salaries for a CPA is 39-51K. Also, the most popular employers listed are the Big 4 and Grant Thorton, so you need to expect to make less than that if you’re going to work for a small or mid-cap company.</p>
<p>As long as you are still going to a reasonably sized CPA firm(i.e. dozens of employees not 3 guys and a shingle), you won’t take that much of a paycut at the entry level. A few years ago you’d probably do even better because the mid market firms would often pay at least <em>some</em> overtime. That’s gone now but might return if the economy improves. The idea is they needed to do that to attract talent. Generally they’re still going to at least match the bigger players. </p>
<p>Disclaimer: The market here is better than in most places.</p>
<p>K, but if you look at accounting manager, accounting sr. manager, partenr accounting firm, the salaries go higher…</p>
<p>yes, if your going to be a local cpa and work for yourself then 75K sounds about right (a solo lawyer also probably makes 75K if no great book of business or above average skills).</p>
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<p>Oh, my bad, I thought we were talking about entry to mid-level salaries.</p>
<p>Oh guys, I do not know in which state you live, but in NY CPAs usually start at 70k because they alredy have 1 or 2 years of working experience, plus the CPA certificate itself adds extra 5-20k to your salary. So, if the average salary for accountants range between 45- 50k, then CPAs may start at 65-70k. Still, people with masters degrees earn much less than CPAs. And remember, the average does not apply to each state, for these numbers were taken from all 50 states.</p>
<p>People, especially Whistle, if you know that accounting pays so little, then why don’t you switch to nursing, where people with just an associates degree make much more than accountants with masters degrees.</p>
<p>Tosh, haven’t you figured out that whistleblower is in engineering yet? Seriously?</p>
<p>Actually, Whistle stated somewhere that he majored in accounting, and he has a 3.2 GPA. Now he is working and making 14 $ per hour–thats why he is so mad, and does not believe that accountants can make more than that.</p>
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<p>Typical high-GPA, low-IQ poster up here. You seem to have read every post I’ve written, yet you can’t manage to synthesize it together into a sensible picture due to your poor reading comprehension. I do not have a 3.2 GPA - if I did, I’d commit suicide. Second, $14 an hour is the after-tax hourly “wage” of big four auditors, not of myself. Third, I am not mad. You are mad. Why are you so mad? I am I bid you good day.</p>
<p>One of my fraternity brothers just graduated with his Masters in Accounting and he passed the CPA exam. Ernst & Young gave him an offer of 40k with a 5k signing bonus.</p>
<p>Good god, that’s less than $11 an hour after taxes, or potentially even under $10 before taxes in the busy season. May god have mercy on his soul.</p>
<p>lol, I actually did the calculation (because I am THAT bored right now), and I gotta say it…Whistleblower1 has been right this whole time.</p>
<p>That’s strange. Must be because of location.</p>
<p>I’m about to graduate undergrad (don’t have CPA yet) and have a Big 4 offer for 55K + 5K bonus (if I pass the CPA exam in 1 year) + 3K review course compensation (so 63K total).</p>
<p>MightyNick, what is your GPA? Are you handsome? Don’t answer that. But how did the female HR person who interviewed you react when she saw you?</p>
<p>CPA+Master+big 4=40k?
where does he live?</p>
<p>ignore the ■■■■■, may i ask you what’s your gpa and your location? do you have all the 150 credits yet?</p>
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<p>Decent, but nothing great. </p>
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<p>She said I was the hottest thing she’s seen in a while</p>
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<p>GPA was less than a 3.5, but I go to a top public school. Guess school mattered in this case since the recruiter said a 3.3 in our school was equivalent to a 3.7 in a lower ranked state school. I’m on the east coast.</p>
<p>I don’t have 150 credits yet but I am taking a few courses this summer at a different school to complete the requirement. I am not getting a Masters.</p>
<p>Ok…Real World…My daughters boy friend is a recent accounting graduate, he has a masters degree from a good state school, near top of his graduating class, just passed his boards and received his CPA. He worked a paid internship during his junior year (summer) at one of the big 4, so he had some experience. He received an offer and recently started a job from from the same firm working out of Washington DC for a starting salary 65 K plus a 5 K starting bonus, also received a paid relocation package. He will be auditing government agencies in and around DC. Not a bad package for a rookie CPA…you can bet he will be working long hours, the big 4 are known for that type of work’em to death mentality. Friends of mine who worked for them had similar experiences and chose to leave after 2-4 years so they could have a social life. For a young CPA a big 4 firm is a great place to gain experience and have on a resume when applying or moving to another company for a higher postion.</p>