Accountant salary in Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX

Pay in Beaumont-Port Arthur against Texas and the US

The middle half of accountants in Beaumont-Port Arthur earns $60,930–$96,650. The top tenth earns $124,380 or more, 2.6 times the bottom tenth, close to the US pattern of 2.6 times. The mean ($82,820) is 8% 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 $35,720 wide, against $38,200 across Texas and $42,790 nationally: employers in Beaumont-Port Arthur pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for an accountant here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $19,970 a year in pay and about $25,768 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $15,750 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 Beaumont-Port Arthur, and the Texas statewide median of $80,920 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Beaumont-Port Arthur

Pay is only part of it. Benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², which adds about $22,262 to the $76,680 median and brings it to $98,942 a year. 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 Beaumont-Port Arthur

Of the 17 roles we track in Beaumont-Port Arthur, this one ranks #2 by median pay, after project coordinators ($100,470); executive assistants come next at $66,740.

Measured against the US median, accountants rank #3 of the 17 roles we track in Beaumont-Port Arthur (-8.4%), between bookkeepers (-6.7%) and administrative assistants (-8.9%). The typical role here is at -13.4%, so, measured against the US, accountants cost more in Beaumont-Port Arthur than the area's general pay level would suggest. Accountants hold 5.7% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Beaumont-Port Arthur, 7.4% across Texas and 9.1% 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 14 areas in Texas with more accountants than Beaumont-Port Arthur, 8 pay less, the largest of them El Paso, TX ($65,990), the North Region of Texas nonmetro area ($76,290) and McAllen-Edinburg, TX ($64,470).

Beaumont-Port Arthur against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Beaumont-Port Arthur is #227 of 521 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Texas, Helena and Boise City pay just above Beaumont-Port Arthur and Chattanooga and La Crosse-Onalaska just below. All four are within $20 a year of the median in Beaumont-Port Arthur. Of the three markets with about as many accountants, two pay more.

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