Certified Accountant
Prepares, audits and defends financial records. A licence, a client list, and a genuinely portable practice.
- Pay band (est.)
- $78k–$150k
- Time to competence
- 5 years
- Licence
- Required
- Setting
- desk
- Leverage
- high
- Place constraint
- low
- Physical demand
- 8/100
- Hours burden
- 62/100
Factor percentiles
Percentile against the whole curated set. Higher is better on that factor only.
- Play1th
Absorbing rather than merely paid.
- Specific knowledge13th
A combination of skills that is hard to copy.
- Leverage86th
Output that scales through code, media, capital or crew.
- Demand79th
Durability and shortage, scored conservatively.
- Pay68th
Mid-career floor and the range above it.
- Body85th
Inverse of physical demand and hours.
- Autonomy84th
Control of methods and time.
- People fit97th
Distance from your preferred people level.
- Place flexibility86th
Remote fit and freedom from specific metros.
- Time to skill63th
Inverse of years to competence.
- Meaning load69th
Care, craft and stewardship weight. Not a moral score.
- Downside tolerance79th
Inverse of named risk to body, market or platform.
Downside
Busy-season hours; routine work is being automated first.
Examine this against your weights
The percentiles above use the default weights. Set your own on the ranking and this vocation moves with them.
- Place constraint is low. Where you live is analysed at locationistics.com.
- Hours burden is 62/100 and people intensity 55/100. Who you are with is analysed at relationistics.com.
Source note: BLS-style outlook and wage patterns; estimate. All figures are estimates for comparison.