Cost to hire an accountant in Georgia
Georgia's 1% small business status lists tax or audit consulting, advisory and financial services among excluded activities, which can push an accountant onto the 20% general regime. At $910 a month you pay $959 as a contractor either way; an employer of record costs $1,777. A US accountant at the BLS median costs 9.4 times as much.
You pay $959 a month as a contractor or $1,777 through an EOR. Contractor tax $9 a month. EOR: salary $1,155 for the same take-home, employer items $23, provider from $599.
Starting pay for accountants in Georgia
Geostat publishes earnings by occupation group, not by job title1. Accountants sit in group 24 Business and Administration Professionals, whose employees averaged GEL 2,358.1 a month in 2025, about $909 at the 2026-11-12 rate2. That is 9% above the all-occupation average of GEL 2,165.2, and 66% more than in 2021 (GEL 1,422.4): rank 5 of the 9 groups we load from that table.
An accountant as a contractor in Georgia
An accountant in Georgia usually invoices you under small business status3456: $9 of a $910 invoice (GEL 2,360) goes to tax and contributions, 1.0%, barely a dent. The accountant keeps $901.
| Item | GEL a month | USD |
|---|---|---|
| Small business tax on turnover | GEL 24 | $9 |
| Tax and contributions | $9 |
Small business status excludes tax or audit consulting, advisory and financial services4, so a Georgian accountant may not be able to use the 1% rate; the Revenue Service decides by registered activity. On the general regime the accountant would pay up to $182 (20% of the whole invoice; deductible expenses lower it) and keep at least $728, up to $173 a month less.
An accountant employed through an EOR
To keep $901 as an employee, the accountant needs a gross salary of $1,155, 27% above the invoice: employee deductions take 22.0% of pay in Georgia53. The employer then adds $23, mostly pension contribution (employer).
| GEL a month | USD | |
|---|---|---|
| Gross salary | GEL 2,995 | $1,155 |
| Employee deductions | GEL 659 | $254 |
| Employer items | GEL 60 | $23 |
| Take-home | $901 |
With a provider from $599 a month at list price, the EOR route costs $9,817 a year more than the contractor route for this accountant.
Georgia against the other three for accountants
Of the countries where accountants can invoice on the usual regime, Georgia leaves them the largest share of the invoice: 99.0%, against 85.0% in Armenia.
We do not rank the four countries on cost for accountants: Armenia and Ukraine publish no pay by occupation, so their starting pay is the national average, a placeholder. Compare them at one pay in the calculator above.
Accountants hired at home
| Market | Median pay a month | Employer cost a month | × the Georgian route |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States78 | $6,973 | $8,998 | 9.4× |
| United Kingdom9101112 | $5,671 | $6,586 | 6.9× |
| Canada1312 | $5,006 | wage only | 5.2× |
| Australia141512 | $6,392 | $7,158 | 7.5× |
By the gap to a US hire, accountants rank 3 of 17 roles in Georgia (9.4×); next to them are paralegals (9.4×) and marketing specialists (8.8×).
How far US pay for accountants spreads
| US pay | A year | Employer cost a month | × the Georgian route |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $56,020 | $6,024 | 6.3× |
| 25th | $67,020 | $7,206 | 7.5× |
| Median | $83,680 | $8,998 | 9.4× |
| 75th | $109,810 | $11,808 | 12.3× |
| 90th | $144,090 | $15,494 | 16.2× |
The best-paid tenth of US accountants earns 2.6 times the lowest-paid. Matching a junior US hire (10th percentile) still costs 6.3 times this route; a senior one (90th) 16.2 times.
Not tax or legal advice: rates depend on the person’s registration and activity. Corrections: hello@silkstaff.com.
Sources
15 sources, with links
- Geostat: average monthly nominal earnings of employees by occupation (ISCO-08), 2021 and 2025, xlsx: geostat.ge
- National Bank of Georgia, official exchange rate 2026-11-12: nbg.gov.ge
- PwC Worldwide Tax Summaries, Georgia, Individual - Taxes on personal income: taxsummaries.pwc.com
- Andersen Georgia: What is Georgia's Small-Business Status: ge.andersen.com
- PwC Worldwide Tax Summaries, Georgia, Individual - Other taxes (pension contributions): taxsummaries.pwc.com
- Revenue Service of Georgia: rs.ge
- BLS OEWS May 2025, 13-2011: bls.gov
- BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, private industry, June 2026: bls.gov
- ONS, ASHE Table 14 (occupation), 2026 provisional: ons.gov.uk
- GOV.UK, rates and thresholds for employers 2026 to 2027: gov.uk
- GOV.UK, workplace pensions: what you, your employer and the government pay: gov.uk
- ECB euro reference rates, 2026-11-03: ecb.europa.eu
- ESDC Job Bank, wages by occupation and economic region, 2025 release: open.canada.ca
- ABS, Employee Earnings and Hours, Australia, May 2025, data cubes 11, 12 and 13: abs.gov.au
- ATO, super guarantee rates: ato.gov.au
How these pages are built: methodology and data sources. Last updated 2026-11-12.