Accountants and Auditors in Georgia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$62,959
after federal, FICA and Georgia tax
Tax takes
$18,941
23.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$65,108
Georgia costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Georgia — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$81,900
Kept after tax
$62,959
Worth in national money
$65,108
State rank
17
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Georgia pays accountants and auditors a middle wage of $81,900, ranking 17 of 51 states and sitting about 2.13% above the national middle.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Georgia. It ranks 105 out of 492 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Here is where Georgia does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $81,900 you keep $62,959, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $65,108 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $93,640, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Georgia's median for accountants and auditors is $81,900, about 2.13% above the national figure and 17 of 51 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Within Georgia, accountants and auditors ranks 105 of 492 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- After federal, FICA and Georgia income tax, retained pay for accountants and auditors on $81,900 is $62,959. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $65,108 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $93,640 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Accountants and Auditors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $51,830 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $81,900 |
| Top tenth earn over | $145,960 |
| This salary | $81,900 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Georgia | $62,959 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $66,447 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,270 |
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $76,942 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,518 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $81,900 as a midpoint for Georgia, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $51,830 and the ninetieth is $145,960 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Georgia the take-home figure of $62,959, from $81,900, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 105 of 492 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $65,108, the adjusted value of that $81,900 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Georgia. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 105 of 492 locally.
- The Georgia median of $81,900 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $51,830 to $145,960. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Georgia is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $62,959 from $81,900. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 105 of 492 locally.
- This $65,108 adjusted figure, worked from $81,900, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 105 of 492 in the state. The occupation ranks 105 of 492 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $93,640 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $51,830, the highest tenth $145,960, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Georgia is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $65,108 in national terms.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Georgia adds its own income tax on top — which is why $62,959 of this wage survives to your account.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Georgia is $93,640. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($51,830) and the ninetieth ($145,960) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Georgia's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $65,108 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $62,959 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Georgia income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.