Cost to hire a bookkeeper in Georgia
A bookkeeper in Georgia paid $690 a month costs you $739 as a contractor or $1,492 through an employer of record with the same take-home: 102% more, the second widest of four. A US bookkeeper at the BLS median costs 7.4 times as much.
You pay $739 a month as a contractor or $1,492 through an EOR. Contractor tax $7 a month. EOR: salary $876 for the same take-home, employer items $18, provider from $599.
Starting pay for bookkeepers in Georgia
Geostat publishes earnings by occupation group, not by job title1. Bookkeepers sit in group 43 Numerical and Material Recording Clerks, whose employees averaged GEL 1,783.6 a month in 2025, about $688 at the 2026-11-12 rate2. That is 18% below the all-occupation average of GEL 2,165.2, and 97% more than in 2021 (GEL 905.1): the fastest rise of the 9 groups we load from that table.
A bookkeeper as a contractor in Georgia
A bookkeeper in Georgia usually invoices you under small business status3456: $7 of a $690 invoice (GEL 1,789) goes to tax and contributions, 1.0%, barely a dent. The bookkeeper keeps $683.
| Item | GEL a month | USD |
|---|---|---|
| Small business tax on turnover | GEL 18 | $7 |
| Tax and contributions | $7 |
A bookkeeper employed through an EOR
To keep $683 as an employee, the bookkeeper needs a gross salary of $876, 27% above the invoice: employee deductions take 22.0% of pay in Georgia53. The employer then adds $18, mostly pension contribution (employer).
| GEL a month | USD | |
|---|---|---|
| Gross salary | GEL 2,271 | $876 |
| Employee deductions | GEL 500 | $193 |
| Employer items | GEL 45 | $18 |
| Take-home | $683 |
With a provider from $599 a month at list price, the EOR route costs $9,039 a year more than the contractor route for this bookkeeper.
Georgia against the other three for bookkeepers
Of the countries where bookkeepers 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 bookkeepers: 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.
Bookkeepers hired at home
| Market | Median pay a month | Employer cost a month | × the Georgian route |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States78 | $4,223 | $5,448 | 7.4× |
| United Kingdom9101112 | $3,643 | $4,194 | 5.7× |
| Canada1312 | $3,475 | wage only | 4.7× |
| Australia141512 | $4,658 | $5,213 | 7.1× |
By the gap to a US hire, bookkeepers rank 11 of 17 roles in Georgia (7.4×); next to them are HR assistants (7.5×) and administrative assistants (7.0×).
What the statistics call bookkeepers
| Statistics | Code | Occupation as published |
|---|---|---|
| US, BLS (SOC 2018) | 43-3031 | Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks |
| UK, ONS (SOC 2020) | 4122 | Book-keepers, payroll managers and wages clerks |
| Canada, ESDC (NOC 2021) | 12200 | Accounting technicians and bookkeepers |
| Australia, ABS (ANZSCO) | 5512 | Bookkeepers |
| ISCO-08 (ILO), used for Georgia | 4311 | unit group in «Numerical and Material Recording Clerks» |
In the UK the full-time median for the job runs from £29,980 a year in East Midlands to £39,852 in London. In Canada it runs from C$24.04 an hour in Nova Scotia to C$43.00 in Nunavut.
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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, 43-3031: 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.