Accountant salary in Abilene, TX

Pay in Abilene against Texas and the US

Accountants at the 90th percentile earn $126,860, 2.4 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 2.6. The middle half of accountants in Abilene earns $62,190–$98,340. The mean ($83,770) is 11% over the median, so a group of high earners pulls the average up; price a typical hire from the median. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $36,150 wide, against $38,200 across Texas and $42,790 nationally: employers in Abilene pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for an accountant here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $22,930 over the median, the 25th only $13,220 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $29,587 a year in employer cost. These percentiles describe what people in the job earn locally, not experience levels, so place your offer by the tasks and seniority you need.

For scale, the US median of $83,680 falls between the median and the 75th percentile in Abilene, and the Texas statewide median of $80,920 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Abilene

At the $75,410 median, a local hire costs about $97,303 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $21,893 here. Recruiting, equipment and office space come on top. Benefit levels vary by employer, so treat this as an estimate.

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Other roles in Abilene

Of the 16 roles we track in Abilene, this one ranks #2 by median pay, after project coordinators ($82,230); executive assistants come next at $63,480.

Measured against the US median, accountants rank #4 of the 16 roles we track in Abilene (-9.9%), between paralegals (-6.7%) and bookkeepers (-10.0%). The typical role here is at -15.5%, so, measured against the US, accountants cost more in Abilene than the area's general pay level would suggest. Accountants hold 6.2% of the jobs in these 16 roles in Abilene, 7.4% across Texas and 9.2% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Texas

Across the 32 areas of Texas with data for this job, the median runs from $63,410 in Laredo to $100,890 in Midland, a gap of $37,480 a year. Of the 22 areas in Texas with more accountants than Abilene, 10 pay less, the largest of them El Paso, TX ($65,990), McAllen-Edinburg, TX ($64,470) and the Hill Country Region of Texas nonmetro area ($74,450).

Abilene against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Abilene is #326 of 521 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Texas, Muskegon-Norton Shores and Reading pay just above Abilene and Knoxville and Rockford just below. All four are within $150 a year of the median in Abilene. Of the three markets with about as many accountants, one pays more.

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