Even as CPA firms shrink by 1,100.
The nation’s accounting and bookkeeping sector accounted for 2,000 of the 80,000 new jobs created in October, according to new preliminary and seasonally-adjusted data from the U.S. Labor Department.
For the nation, the jobs gain pushed the unemployment rate down to 9.0% from 9.1%.
For the accounting and bookkeeping sector, October’s performance represents a third straight month of gains and a year-to-year gain of 60,800 jobs, bringing the industry’s payroll to 932,200 employees.