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Accountants and Auditors

SOC 13-2011 · 2024-2034

Examine, analyze, and interpret accounting records to prepare financial statements, give advice, or audit and evaluate statements prepared by others. Install or advise on systems of recording costs or other financial and budgetary data.

How the U.S. Department of Labor describes this work. Published in English only.

The job this trains for

Typical pay in California
$98,678per year
Projected openings
154,340
Projected change
+7.5%
Usually needs
Bachelor's degree

Bright Outlook — a U.S. Department of Labor designation
Rapid Growth · Numerous Job Openings

The Department's own designation, made from its national projections. It is not this project's assessment and it is not California's: every other figure on this page comes from California's projection, which can point the other way and for some occupations does.

Skills this work uses most

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, rates how important each of these is to this work, and they are listed in that order, most important first. The ratings themselves are not shown, because the data carries the number without the scale it was measured on. The names are as published, in English.

  1. Reading Comprehension
  2. Active Listening
  3. Speaking
  4. Critical Thinking
  5. Judgment and Decision Making
  6. Writing

Pay by region

RegionTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openings
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties)$123,88511,180
San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties)$112,10513,100
Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties)$104,4368,750
San Rafael MD (Marin County)$102,352950
Napa MSA (Napa County)$96,537530
Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County)$95,99816,850
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County)$95,34942,490
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County)$95,16213,320
Vallejo MSA (Solano County)$95,040730
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County)$94,1642,070
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties)$91,34312,000
Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County)$89,9581,570
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County)$89,7951,400
Salinas MSA (Monterey County)$86,433970
Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County)$84,610700
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties)$84,6008,420
San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County)$83,765790
Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County)$82,9811,350
Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County)$81,6161,670
North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties)$81,483610
Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties)$80,933300
Redding MSA (Shasta County)$80,567410
Merced MSA (Merced County)$80,129310
Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County)$80,1291,160
Visalia MSA (Tulare County)$80,098770
Chico MSA (Butte County)$79,446420
Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties)$79,1102,570
Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties)$78,448310
North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties)$78,326610
El Centro MSA (Imperial County)$78,010270
Hanford-Corcoran MSA (Kings County)$77,185210

Similar work

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, names these as occupations involving work similar to this one — its own reading of the job, not a grouping by code. They keep O*NET's order, and only those California publishes a projection for are shown.

The job this trains forTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openingsProjected change
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks$60,632178,570-4.1%
Financial Examiners$107,7783,310+9.1%
Financial Managers$183,80384,770+16.3%
Tax Preparers$71,20515,610+12.1%
Budget Analysts$101,1902,840+4.7%
Tax Examiners and Collectors, and Revenue Agents$75,3537,640+4.3%

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