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How to earn £100k+ in accounting

Where the pounds are in accounting

The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) has just released its 2015 accounting salary survey in combination with search firm Stott and May. If you want to know about pay in accounting and to earn a comfortable six figure pay package on annual basis, your questions all answered.

To command £100k in accounting ($146k), the ICAEW says you must:

1. Be a man aged 30+ 

ICAEW pay

Source: ICAEW 

2. Have more than nine years' experience 

ICAEW experience

Source: ICAEW 

3. Avoid the government and charitable sectors (and - weirdly - go for insurance) 

ICAEW sectors

Source: ICAEW 

4. Work in London or the East of England

ICAEW UK

Source: ICAEW 

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AUTHORSarah Butcher Global Editor

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