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Accounting & Audit: jobs, conferences and layoffs

Public accounting, tax, internal audit and corporate accounting. Accounting & Audit has about 10,805 verified open jobs on NextChapter right now, with a typical posted salary of $114,000 a year. About 26% of openings are entry or early-career level. Payroll employment in the closest BLS sector is up 1.2% over the past year (October 2026). 2 layoff notices were filed in the last 12 months. 118 conferences are tagged to it, 86 with dates announced.

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Accounting & Audit market snapshot

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Verified open jobs
about 10,805

Source: NextChapter job data, jobs verified live in the last 7 days.

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Typical posted salary
$114,000 a year (middle half $88,000 to $140,000)

Source: NextChapter job data: salary ranges employers posted, midpoint of each range, 1,631 of the newest 5,000 verified open jobs.

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Entry or early-career level
26% of openings

Source: NextChapter job data: level read from the full posting, newest 5,000 verified open jobs.

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Ask for AI skills
2% of openings

Source: NextChapter job data: AI-skill tagger on the posting text, newest 5,000 verified open jobs.

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Remote
3% of openings

Source: NextChapter job data, newest 5,000 verified open jobs.

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Employment, year over year
+1.2% in professional and business services, the closest BLS sector

Source: BLS Current Employment Statistics, seasonally adjusted payroll employment, October 2026.

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Job openings rate
5.5% of jobs, against 5.4% a year earlier (professional and business services, the closest BLS sector)

Source: BLS Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, seasonally adjusted, September 2026.

Layoffs and discharges rate
1.9% of employment, against 2.0% a year earlier (professional and business services, the closest BLS sector)

Source: BLS Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, seasonally adjusted, September 2026.

Hires rate
4.1% of employment, against 4.5% a year earlier (professional and business services, the closest BLS sector)

Source: BLS Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, seasonally adjusted, September 2026.

Layoff notices, Accounting & Audit
2 notices naming 13 workers

Source: State WARN filings collected by NextChapter, last 12 months.

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States with the most notices
MD (1), IN (1)

Source: State WARN filings collected by NextChapter, last 12 months.

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Most recent notice
Oct 29, 2026

Source: State WARN filings collected by NextChapter.

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Conferences in the catalog for Accounting & Audit
118, 86 with dates announced

Source: NextChapter conference catalog, checked against each event’s own site.

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Next conference
AFP Annual Conference, Nov 8, 2026

Source: NextChapter conference catalog.

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Median published ticket price
$1,000

Source: NextChapter conference catalog, lowest published price, 41 conferences with a price.

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Open calls for speakers
9 conferences

Source: NextChapter conference catalog.

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Skills most often named in openings

  1. 1. audit10%
  2. 2. excel8%
  3. 3. gaap7%
  4. 4. accounts payable6%
  5. 5. erp5%
  6. 6. accounts receivable4%
  7. 7. forecasting4%
  8. 8. budgeting4%

States with the most openings

  1. 1. CA11%
  2. 2. NY8%
  3. 3. TX8%
  4. 4. IL8%
  5. 5. FL6%

Accounting & Audit outlook: Steady

Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers, not from our own postings. It describes the industry nationally, not any one employer.

  • Employment up 1.2% over the year in professional and business services
  • Job openings rate 5.5%, up 0.1 points from a year ago
  • Layoffs rate 1.9%, down 0.1 points from a year ago

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Accounting & Audit conferences

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Accounting & Audit layoffs by state

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