Most people I know are well above this

This can’t be right can it?

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There’s lots of cpas who have been doing book keeping for 25 years and are chillin around 100k. This is believable. You are in a echo chamber of highly motivated cpas

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That graph has no context. CPA salary for a first year, corp tax, public accounting? 1-3 year professionals and those not in public are going to drive that figure way down.

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Of course there are lots of CPAs in LA that make less than that. Why can’t that be right?

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Big4 partners are the 99.999 percentile but yes this still feels low

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Ahhh I stand corrected, I was too excited for the zinger. You got me 🤦‍♂️

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Maybe this is first year after getting CPA?

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The reason I posted is because it seems wrong.

Thanks for confirming I was right

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It’s not wrong but it doesn’t accurately represent Big 4 CPAs. As a Famous Philosopher once said” there are lies, damn lies and statistics”.

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