BY THE NUMBERS:
The Massachusetts Accounting Industry
In 2015, the Boston-Cambridge-Newton
area ranked nationally as the seventh toppaying metropolitan area for bookkeepers,
accountants and auditing clerks – and
as the eighth metropolitan area with
the highest employment level for these
occupations. There were 21,620 individuals
employed from this area that year.
NATIONA
L
RANKING
th top
paying
metro
area
th highest
employment
level
The largest 10 firms in 2016 employ a combined
9,951 workers in Massachusetts, which is 813 more
than the same group reported a year earlier.
After increasing their in-state employee counts by 12.4
percent in
, the state s
largest accounting firms
on the 2016 Boston Business Journal’s list of fastest
gro ing accounting firms reported an additional 8.9
percent increase over the past 12 months.
2013
2014 +12.4%
EMPLOYMENT
COUNT
2016 +8.9%
LARGEST
10 FIRMS
M a s s a c h u s e t t s S o c i e t y o f C e r t i f i e d P u b l i c A c c o u n t a n t s • C PA t r a c k . c o m
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