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Audit Friendly WEEKEND BRIEF · SUN OCT 4
The week in remote accounting
 
473 new remote roles · 368 employers · top end $400K · 60% disclose pay
473 new remote accounting roles came in this week from 368 employers - a market that keeps moving even as advertised Tax Accountant pay has dropped 47.3% in six months, a shift most salary guides still have not caught. Operational Accounting carried the week by a wide margin at 183 roles, nearly three times the volume of the next category. Wipfli and Ryan tied at the top with 10 postings each, though their pay bands told different stories: Wipfli's ceiling reached $113,000 while PricewaterhouseCoopers, with six roles, pushed to $335,000. The broader US market now sits at 3,630 live remote accounting postings from 1,974 companies, with 59% disclosing pay - more to work with than most sectors.

THE REMOTE MARKET RIGHT NOW

4,976

LIVE REMOTE ROLES

505

POSTED THIS WEEK

2,621

EMPLOYERS HIRING

60%

DISCLOSE PAY

US remote accounting and finance postings, counted October 4, 2026. See the full dataset

FROM THE DATA DESK · THIS WEEK
Tax Accountant advertised pay moved -47.3% in six months. The annual salary guide cannot see it.
Measured monthly from live postings; Robert Half's printed midpoint sits +10.6% from today's measured median.
Return to office is not one trend: Staffing Agency is going more remote while Media Entertainment pulls hiring back.
Three-month change in each industry's remote share of accounting postings, measured monthly.
Accounting hiring holds the largest share of this month's roles, and the fastest employer closes in 1 day.
Apply early: PricewaterhouseCoopers closes accounting roles in a median 1 day from posting.

WHO HIRED REMOTE THIS WEEK

The employers that added the most remote accounting roles

Counted from postings dated in the last seven days. Staffing agencies are left out.

Wipfli
10 remote roles this week
 up to $113K
Wipfli reported FY26 net revenue of $638.4 million, up 3.9% year over year, and promoted 12 new partners in June 2026, context that makes its continued push into outsourced accounting hiring readable as a deliberate service-line build.
Ryan
10 remote roles this week
 up to $86K
Ryan closed a minority investment from Neuberger Berman in early 2026 valuing the firm at roughly $7 billion and in June announced an agreement to acquire Nordic tax advisory firm Svalner Atlas Advisors.
PricewaterhouseCoopers
6 remote roles this week
 up to $335K
CohnReznick
5 remote roles this week · mostly Tax
 up to $250K
CohnReznick acquired Houston-based Ham, Langston, & Brezina effective July 1, 2026, its latest move in a multi-market expansion backed by Apax Funds, which also included entries into Minneapolis, San Francisco, Tampa, Denver, and Tallahassee over the past year.
BAE Systems
4 remote roles this week · mostly Procurement & Purchasing
For example: Dir I- Procurement
Centene Management Company
4 remote roles this week · mostly External Audit
 up to $40K
For example: Accountant I

WORTH A LOOK

Five of the week's roles, by disclosed pay

Four of the five roles carry a top-end pay figure above $300K, which is rare for remote accounting listings in any given week.

 
Map Ssg
Remote Tax Attorney - Senior Associate / Junior Partner
🌐 Remote - US · $250K-400K
Enhanced US
Controller
🌐 Remote - US · $230K-350K
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Tax Operations Transformation - Senior Manager
🌐 Remote - US · $124K-335K
Turner & Townsend
Vice President, Construction Procurement & Supply Chain
🌐 Remote - US · $175K-325K
Yext
Director, Revenue Accounting
🌐 Remote - US · $142.7K-263K

PAYING ABOVE MARKET

Alchemy
Accounts Payable Specialist · Remote
2.0× market
$95K-$125K
Happyrobot
Accounting Manager, General Ledger & OPEX · Remote
1.9× market
$180K-$240K
Pivotal Health
Accounts Payable Analyst · Remote
1.6× market
$80K-$100K

WHAT REMOTE PAYS

Median pay by role

From 631 remote postings that disclosed a range.

ROLE MEDIAN TYPICAL RANGE
Staff Accountant $73K $64K to $83K
Senior Accountant $95K $84K to $102K
Payroll Specialist $68K $56K to $83K
Billing Specialist $52K $44K to $61K
Accounting Manager $125K $106K to $135K
Controller $146K $121K to $175K

All remote pay bands →

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