Accountant salary in the Arizona nonmetro area

Pay in the Arizona nonmetro area against Arizona and the US

Pay is more spread out here than nationally: the top tenth earns $119,870 or more, 3.1 times the bottom tenth, against 2.6 times across the US. Two offers for the same title can sit far apart. The middle half of accountants in the Arizona nonmetro area earns $54,010–$93,580. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $39,570 wide, between the figure for Arizona ($38,650) and the US figure ($42,790).

What to budget for an accountant here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $22,220 a year in pay and about $28,671 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $17,350 in pay. 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 the Arizona nonmetro area, and the Arizona statewide median of $79,970 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Arizona nonmetro area

At the $71,360 median, a local hire costs about $92,077 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $20,717 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 the Arizona nonmetro area

Of the 16 roles we track in the Arizona nonmetro area, this one ranks #2 by median pay, after project coordinators ($78,250); executive assistants come next at $61,150.

Measured against the US median, accountants rank #8 of the 16 roles we track in the Arizona nonmetro area (-14.7%), between sales development representatives (-13.7%) and data entry specialists (-15.7%). The typical role here is at -15.2%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Accountants hold 7.0% of the jobs in these 16 roles in the Arizona nonmetro area, 7.8% across Arizona and 9.2% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Arizona

Across the 8 areas of Arizona with data for this job, the median runs from $67,780 in Lake Havasu City-Kingman to $80,820 in Phoenix-Mesa, a gap of $13,040 a year. All 2 areas in Arizona with more accountants than the Arizona nonmetro area also pay more, among them Phoenix-Mesa, AZ ($80,820) and Tucson, AZ ($76,320).

the Arizona nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Arizona nonmetro area is #351 of 521 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the bottom quarter of US areas. Outside Arizona, Springfield and Weirton-Steubenville pay just above the Arizona nonmetro area and Coeur d'Alene and Daphne-Fairhope just below. All four are within $130 a year of the median in the Arizona nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many accountants, one pays more.

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