Accounting
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Early Career Income
$88,511
Lifetime Income
$4.23M
Unemployment rate
2.6%
Female share
53.1%
Occupation concentration
63.6%
in top 10 occupations
Remote work share
28.0%
% who double-major
17.0%
BA Graduates from 2024
40,069
-3.3% vs 2023
How Accounting compares
Ranked against every other major nationally.
62nd
percentile
Lifetime income
Higher than 62% of majors
53rd
percentile
Unemployment
Lower unemployment than 53% of majors
86th
percentile
Occupation concentration
More concentrated than 86% of majors
Top occupations
- Accountants and Auditors
- Financial Managers
- Miscellaneous managers, including funeral service managers and postmasters and mail superintendents
See the Occupations and Industries tabs for full breakdowns, Double Majors for the most common second fields of degree, and Earnings for the trajectory by age, and Trends for degree production over time.
Degree titles included in this major
These detailed majors are included in the statistics for Accounting.
- Accounting
- Accounting Technology/Technician and Bookkeeping
- Auditing
- Accounting and Finance
- Accounting and Business/Management
- Accounting and Related Services, Other
Based on federal labor and demographic data. Data source & methodology