Accountants and Auditors salary in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

The figures

The median Accountants and Auditors in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area earns $100,150 a year ($48.15 an hour), according to the BLS OEWS May 2025 estimates (full citation in Sources). The middle half of Accountants and Auditors in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH earn between $79,990 and $129,490 a year. At the ends of the distribution, the lowest-paid 10 percent earn $72,450 or less and the top 10 percent earn $161,450 or more. BLS estimates 37,150 Accountants and Auditors jobs in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH area — 13.738 of every 1,000 jobs in the area, a location quotient of 1.47 (well above the national concentration). That is 2.6% of all Accountants and Auditors employment in the United States (1,449,500 jobs nationally). By employment, Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH is the #6 largest of the 25 covered metro areas for Accountants and Auditors. In aggregate, Accountants and Auditors in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH earn about $4.04 billion a year (BLS employment multiplied by the mean wage). At the mean wage, the engine's take-home is $80,159.32 a year, so the aggregate take-home of Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Accountants and Auditors is about $2.98 billion. BLS reports a relative standard error of 2.3% for this employment estimate. Ranked by median pay, Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH stands #4 of the 25 metro areas covered on this site for Accountants and Auditors. By employment, Accountants and Auditors is the #11 largest of the 30 covered occupations in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. Placed against the national distribution for Accountants and Auditors, the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH median of $100,150 falls between the national median ($83,680) and the national 75th percentile ($109,810). Across all occupations, the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH median is $66,620 a year — Accountants and Auditors pay is 50.3% above the area's overall median.

Wages in detail

What the wage distribution says

The top 10 percent of Accountants and Auditors in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH earn 2.2 times what the bottom 10 percent earn ($161,450 against $72,450). The middle half spans $49,500 — from $79,990 to $129,490. Hourly, the 90th percentile ($77.62) is 2.23 times the 10th ($34.83). In the upper half of the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH distribution, the 75th percentile wage of $129,490 takes home $93,618.06 and the 90th percentile wage of $161,450 takes home $113,864.54 — $20,246.48 more net for $31,960 more gross. Against the median take-home of $74,597.98, the top decile keeps 1.53 times as much. The mean wage of $108,660 sits 8.5% above the median: higher-paid Accountants and Auditors pull the average up in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. Among the 30 covered occupations in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH, Accountants and Auditors ranks #5 by median pay. In the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH wage ladder of covered occupations, Accountants and Auditors sits between Registered Nurses at $106,180 and Business Operations Specialists, All Other at $98,340. Accountants and Auditors accounts for 1.4% of all employment in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area. The average covered metro employs 28,234 Accountants and Auditors; Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH employs 1.3 times that.

Take-home pay on the median wage in Massachusetts

Single filer, no dependents, no pre-tax contributions, paid biweekly, a full year of W-2 wages in Massachusetts; city and local taxes are not included:

At the median, $74,597.98 of the $100,150 gross is kept ($2,869.15 per paycheck) — a deduction rate of 25.51%. The deduction rate moves with pay: 22.02% at the 10th percentile, 23.21% at the 25th percentile, 27.70% at the 75th percentile, 29.47% at the 90th percentile. Between the 25th and 75th percentile wages, annual take-home rises by $32,194.66 on a gross rise of $49,500.

The same engine at the other published points of the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH wage distribution:

Across the published distribution, take-home pay runs from $56,496.14 a year at the 10th percentile to $113,864.54 at the 90th — a spread of $57,368.40 of net pay inside one occupation and one metro area.

For scale: across all occupations, the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH median wage of $66,620 takes home $52,686.34 a year ($2,026.40 per paycheck, deduction rate 20.92%). The Accountants and Auditors median take-home of $74,597.98 sits $21,911.64 (above that area-wide figure.

Multi-state metro area. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH also covers parts of New Hampshire. The take-home estimate above uses Massachusetts rules — the metro area's primary state. If the job is based in another part of the metro area, the state tax changes: see the New Hampshire paycheck calculator.

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Take-home pay for $100,150 in Massachusetts

Against the national median

Nationally, the median Accountants and Auditors earns $83,680 a year ($40.23 an hour). The Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH median of $100,150 is $16,470 (19.7%) above the national median.

The means rank the area the same way: $108,660 a year in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH against $94,750 nationally, a gap of $13,910 (14.7%).

Set against the whole local market, the Accountants and Auditors 90th percentile of $161,450 is 96% of the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH all-occupations 90th percentile ($168,090), and its 10th percentile of $72,450 is 197% of the area-wide 10th ($36,760).

Sources and method

Wage data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates (released May 15, 2026), retrieved October 27, 2026 — bls.gov/oes. OEWS figures are survey estimates for May 2025, not job offers. Take-home pay is computed by this site's paycheck engine with 2026 federal and state rules; the method, and what the engine does not model, is documented in the paycheck methodology guide. Estimates only — not tax advice.