What Does a Staff Accountant Make in Austin? Posted Pay Midpoints at $66,250
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Across the 32 live staff accountant postings we're tracking in the Austin metro, 12 list a salary, and the middle of those posted ranges lands at $66,250. That's a small sample and I'd rather tell you so up front than pretend it's a law of nature, but it's a real number from real postings, which is more than most Austin salary pages give you (a lot of them are recycled averages and, frankly, bullshit), and the shape of it tells you a few useful things about where to aim.
I pulled this from the 80,000+ accounting and finance postings we track at Audit Friendly, cleaned of recruiter noise and linked straight to employer career pages, with figures current as of October 2026. Where a number comes from a government table I'll say so, because mixing the two without labeling them is how salary pages end up useless.
What does a staff accountant make in Austin?
Postings that show pay put the midpoint of the range at $66,250, and the middle half of those twelve sit between about $60,900 and $71,300. Twelve postings is thin, so treat the edges loosely, but the cluster is tight enough that I'd expect a typical offer to land in the low-to-mid $60s with a path toward $70K for anyone bringing a CPA or real month-end experience.
The BLS number looks bigger, and that confuses people. The most recent BLS occupational table for Austin-Round Rock shows 12,180 accountants and auditors with a median of $38.56 an hour, which is roughly $80,000 a year, and a mean of $89,950. That table blends every level from first-year staff to partner-track seniors, so it's supposed to sit above an entry-level posting, and it does. The BLS table tells you what the whole profession earns in town and the postings tell you what a staff role costs to start, and you need both to figure out how far you have to climb.
How much more do senior roles and managers pay in Austin?
The climb is where Austin gets interesting. Among postings that list pay, senior accountants midpoint at $80,000 across 8 postings, accounting managers at $134,850 across 6, and controllers at $160,500 across 6. Those are small cells again, so don't tattoo them on anything, but the jump from staff to manager is close to double, and that's the part worth sitting with. A staff accountant in Austin who gets to manager in four or five years roughly doubles their pay, which is a hell of a better deal than most of the job-hopping advice floating around.
If you want the same level-by-level math across our whole database instead of one metro, we wrote up what a first accounting job title is worth and the pattern holds here.
Who is hiring staff accountants in Austin?
Construction is the surprise. Six of the 32 staff accountant postings come from construction-side companies, and across the staff-through-controller set you'll see national general contractors like Turner Construction and DPR with openings alongside the tech and semiconductor names you'd expect from Austin. Contractors need job-cost accountants and project accountants constantly, they tend to be less glamorous than a tech logo, and that's often where I'd tell a newer accountant to look first, and I'm a little pissed more people don't, because the hiring is steady and the work teaches you real accounting.
Seven of the 32 mention a CPA in some form, and six mention a hybrid schedule. None of the Austin postings in our set are fully remote right now, which is worth knowing if you were hoping to live here and work for a coastal company. If remote is the goal, the remote accounting jobs page is a separate search and a much smaller pool.
What I'd do if I were job hunting in Austin
I'd start with the postings that show a number, because an employer willing to print a range is telling you something about how they run the shop, and I'd look at the construction and project-accounting roles before assuming the tech names are the better deal. Then I'd read the whole posting for the software, because Austin staff roles often name NetSuite or Sage Intacct and being able to say you've closed a month in one of them moves you up the pile faster than another certification does.
Also look at how many postings out there hide the range, because most of them do. We measured it in how many accounting postings list a salary at all, so plan on asking for the range in the first call. Ask early, it's a normal question, and damn near every recruiter has the number in front of them.
Everything live in town is on the Audit Friendly job board, linked to the employer's own career page.
Frequently asked questions
What is the average staff accountant salary in Austin?
Staff accountant postings in Austin that list pay midpoint at about $66,250 as of October 2026, based on 12 postings with a posted range in our database. The BLS reports a higher figure for all Austin accountants and auditors, a mean of $89,950 in May 2023, because it includes senior and manager levels.
Do staff accountant jobs in Austin require a CPA?
Most do not. Seven of the 32 live staff accountant postings we track mention a CPA, so the large majority are open to candidates without one, though a CPA or a path to one helps with pay and promotion.
Are there remote staff accountant jobs in Austin?
Not many. None of the Austin-metro postings in our current set are fully remote, and six mention a hybrid schedule. Searching remote roles from the national board is a better route if you want to work from home.
Which industries hire the most accountants in Austin?
Construction and technology both show up heavily. Six of the 32 staff accountant postings are construction-related, and general contractors like Turner Construction and DPR appear across the staff-to-controller postings we track.
How much do Austin accounting managers and controllers make?
Among postings that list pay, accounting managers midpoint around $134,850 and controllers around $160,500, based on six postings each, so treat them as directional.
The postings change daily, so the best use of this page is the shape of it, and then go see what's live today and ask the first recruiter you talk to what the range is.
