Growth and Change in the CPA Workforce

CPA Trendlines finds tight cost controls, slow wage increases and an influx of women workers.

By Rick Telberg
CPA Trendlines

Lifted by a steadily recovering economy and aggressive retooling, the nation’s CPA firms are adding staff at a 2.3% annualized rate, the strongest advance in a year, according to a new CPA Trendlines study. But hours are unpredictable, wage growth is stalled and firms are trading higher-paid professionals for cheaper labor.

CPA firm employment trends, via CPA Trendlines

The study goes on to report new data, trends and analysis regarding:

– The total CPA firm workforce
– Leverage ratios
– Productivity efforts
– Cost controls
– Wages and hours
– Women in the workforce