Accountant salary in the Northeastern Wisconsin nonmetro area

Pay in the Northeastern Wisconsin nonmetro area against Wisconsin and the US

The middle half of accountants in the Northeastern Wisconsin nonmetro area earns $63,040–$96,070. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $123,630, only 2.3 times the bottom tenth, against 2.6 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($82,560) is 9% 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 $33,030 wide, against $35,800 across Wisconsin and $42,790 nationally: employers in the Northeastern Wisconsin nonmetro area 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 $20,480 over the median, the 25th only $12,550 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $26,426 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 the Northeastern Wisconsin nonmetro area, and the Wisconsin statewide median of $79,400 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Northeastern Wisconsin nonmetro area

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 $21,945 to the $75,590 median and brings it to $97,535 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 the Northeastern Wisconsin nonmetro area

Of the 17 roles we track in the Northeastern Wisconsin nonmetro area, this one ranks #2 by median pay, after project coordinators ($95,680); recruiters come next at $63,800.

Measured against the US median, accountants rank #9 of the 17 roles we track in the Northeastern Wisconsin nonmetro area (-9.7%), between project coordinators (-6.5%) and office managers (-10.0%). The typical role here is at -9.7%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Accountants hold 7.5% of the jobs in these 17 roles in the Northeastern Wisconsin nonmetro area, 8.9% across Wisconsin and 9.1% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Wisconsin

Across the 17 areas of Wisconsin with data for this job, the median runs from $74,210 in the Northwestern Wisconsin nonmetro area to $81,130 in Madison, a gap of $6,920 a year. All 4 areas in Wisconsin with more accountants than the Northeastern Wisconsin nonmetro area also pay more, among them Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI ($80,290) and Madison, WI ($81,130).

the Northeastern Wisconsin nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Northeastern Wisconsin nonmetro area is #154 of 521 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Wisconsin, Bangor and Sherman-Denison pay just above the Northeastern Wisconsin nonmetro area and Corpus Christi and Reading just below. All four are within $60 a year of the median in the Northeastern Wisconsin nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many accountants, all three pay more.

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