Accountant pay in Baltimore
What accountants in the Baltimore metro earn, from the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey, May 2025.
$85,160
MEDIAN PAY
13-2011
OCCUPATION CODE
Half of accountants in Baltimore earn between $71,100 and $108,640. One in ten earn less than $59,170; one in ten earn more than $146,650.
BLS OEWS, May 2025 · Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD · 13,550 employed
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What the work is
Examine, analyze, and interpret accounting records to prepare financial statements, give advice, or audit and evaluate statements prepared by others. Install or advise on systems of recording costs or other financial and budgetary data.
- Prepare, examine, or analyze accounting records, financial statements, or other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.
- Process invoices for payment.
- Review accounts for discrepancies and reconcile differences.
- Compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting, or other tax requirements.
- Prepare adjusting journal entries.
- Inspect account books and accounting systems for efficiency, effectiveness, and use of accepted accounting procedures to record transactions.
Summary and tasks from O*NET OnLine, 13-2011.00 Accountants and Auditors, O*NET 31.0.
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About this data
Wages: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (public domain; BLS is the source and does not vouch for this page). This page includes information from the O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA.
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Survey figures released 15 May 2026. A figure the survey withholds is left out, never estimated. The open roles beside them are the Baltimore hub's, whose machine-readable twin is at /jobs/accountant/baltimore/data.json.