Average Salary for Chartered Accountants

The website below shows that Salaries for Accountants can be pretty high 70k+, however the people that earn these salaries are they mainly from Big4 firms? or do they work for a different sector i.e Public sector
http://www.onrec.com/content2/news.asp?ID=17234

What are the average salaries of Big4 firm employee's after around 4-5 years?

Does ACCA or ACA qualification make a difference to the salary earned?

Reply 1

Clubber Lang

look on accountancyage.com - they have a big grid on there i think. under salary surveys

Reply 2

Uzi Rox

Hey "Banka_accountant" what does
"Newcastle - Business, Accounting + Finance (4yr - PwC)"
mean......... are you like guaranteed a placement at PwC if you get accepted for the course??

Reply 3

dhokes

Sort of. You do placements while you're at uni. Check out the Uni's website for more details.

Reply 4

Cristalclear

hows the university of leeds for accounting and finance Banka_accountant? Thinking of applying there, it does have a sandwhich course as well right?

reply will be apprecaited.

Reply 5

Banka_accountant

Cristalclear

hows the university of leeds for accounting and finance Banka_accountant? Thinking of applying there, it does have a sandwhich course as well right?

reply will be apprecaited.

Leeds is excellent for Acc+Fin, its in the Top 10 and graduates are very employable (especially if you are looking to work in the Leeds region). There is the option to embark on the placement year and i would highly reccomend you do participate in that.

You'll wonder why Leeds isnt one of my 5 options eventhough i live there. Well its because i really want to move away from home so i had to turn down Leeds, otherwise if it wasnt for that i would have made Leeds my 1st choice. It's a great City uni is Leeds.

Reply 6

Banka_accountant

This thread is getting hijacked.. nobody is answering the question !! come on people.stop being so damn lazy :biggrin:

Reply 7

chrism2671

When you qualify as an accountant at a big 4 you will be on about £40k. If you leave big 4 with an ACA and go to industry, you will get about £50k for less hours and less stress. Eventually you will settle on around £70-80k if you just turn up and do you job, but you can expect to earn 6 figures if you put your mind to it.

The hours in accountancy are quite long by nature, as it is a deadline driven industry.

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