[pankitp]

Let’s get a database going on this post. Please answer

5 Simple Questions:

1) are you a:

a) CPA

b) CPA Candidate

2) select what size company you work in: (Say N/A if not applicable)

a) Big 4

b) large Company (Over 5000 employees) (Excluding Big4)

c) Medium Company (Between 1000-5000 employees)

d) Small Company (Under 1000 employees)

3) State

4) Base Salary

5) Experience

Please, answers only in your post…

thanks

[pankitp]

1) CPA Candidate

2) Large Company

3) California

4) $60,000 + Bonus

5) 2 Years Experience

[airhol2]

Lets also add level/yrs of experience

1. cpa candidate

2. large company

3. NYC

4. Mid 70's + benefits and bonus

5. 5 yrs experience (senior auditor)

[Anonymous]

1.) CPA candidate

2.) d. Small Company

3.) South Carolina

4.) $75,000

5.) 5 years experience

[GSU Josh]

How are non-CPA's making this much? I was making $40,000 last year for a small company. I had no experience and no CPA. I will have one very soon, though, as I am studying for my last section and feel very good about AUD. Currently, I am not working just studying. I wish I had good jobs like y'all right now.

AUD - 74, 87; BEC - 84; FAR - 78; REG - 79
It's done, Son!

[potatogun]

@GSU Josh: What state? And you just said you had no experience. The above posters had experience too. And even still these 5 options are not all the factors.

1) CPA Candidate

2) Big4

3) CA

4) around $50k

5) new hire

FAR 92 - AUD 91 - REG 94 - BEC 86

[Anonymous]

CPA Candidate

Medium Company

AZ

95k plus bonus

10+ years in finance/accounting/management

Salaries obviously vary but az is kinda low…..im pulling a good salary but with the time i have in my career it is more representative of my past experience than of my ability to become a cpa….I had a very similar role when i lived in NYC and made 125k plus bonus

I think getting the CPA early in your career can move you up in a organization faster and in turn get you a better salary faster….i came out of school in finance and then moved into accounting later and was able to elevate my salary fairly quickly back then without a cpa

hope this helps..Chris

[italianCPA]

1) CPA candidate

2) small company (my last company, now I'm unemployed in CA)

3) NYC (now in CA)

4) 150k + bonus (in NYC)

5) 8 years

FAR - 7/26/10 - 95
AUD - 8/10/10 - 88
BEC - 8/31/10 - 88
REG - 10/15/10 - 95

[Anonymous]

Desert_Life

TX here – the cost of living is a huge factor. In the SW you can buy a large home for what the NY Metro area pays for an efficiency! Indusrty matters too.

[Anonymous]

1. CPA

2. Large (Government)

3. IN

4. 85K + benefits + bonus + periodic performance awards

5. 2 years as an accountant but have 11 years in government

There is no increase in salary for getting my CPA, but it does help some when applying for other government position but actually a bachelors/masters degree would earn more points than a CPA go figure. The one thing I do like is it extremely difficult to get rifted or fired unless you are a deadbeat so can't really beat the job security.

[NJCPA2B]

1. CPA as of last week

2. small firm

3. NJ/NYC

4. 175K + benefits + bonus – I'm in sales and sytems implementations

5. 17 years: public to private to public – moving to NC to go on my own….

BEC=77, FAR=78, REG=73,74,80, AUD=70,69, 84 DONE!

[limey]

1) CPA

2) Gov't

3) NYC

4) $70k

5) ~3.5 years

I really can't pass again!

[Anonymous]

1. CPA Candidate

2. Big 4

3. DC & Baltimore, MD

4. 57k (including signing bonus & stuff)

5. 0= college hire (U of Maryland- regular state school)

[potatogun]

@NJCPA2B

If you don't mind can you expand on your job role and how the CPA supplements you in sales. I am curious to see how the license can help in other areas aside from “traditional” accounting roles in companies.

FAR 92 - AUD 91 - REG 94 - BEC 86

[Anonymous]

this thread depresses me. i make no where close to your reported figures. can we say underpaid?

[NJCPA2B]

potatogun – my role is basically to get clients for my firm. I'm real good at contacting and networking to get businesses to go with our firm. I'm also an expert in various accounting software. I've been with my firm for about 3 1/2 years. I've been a controller and VP of Finance for 5 private and public companies, which are now my firm's clients. As a CPA, I now have more credibility when I network to find clients…..

You only make partner in small or large firms when you can bring-in lots of business. But I dislike very much the partners in my firm and they only like me becuase of my relations with the firms clients and the business I bring in…..

BEC=77, FAR=78, REG=73,74,80, AUD=70,69, 84 DONE!

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