What the job really costs, whether it needs the building, and which parts software can do. From our own read of 107,442 US finance postings, in plain words.
Three situations owners are usually in. Pick yours.
Find out what the seat really costs and whether it needs the building, before the posting goes up.
Median time to fill an accounting role is about 90 days. See what is slowing yours and which duties could start now.
Keep them. See which parts of their week agents can take, so their hours go to the work that needs them.
Every number here comes from job postings we pulled and read ourselves. The method is on each page.
Where each finance seat sits, role by role, and how much of the work in them really needs the building.
of US finance postings ask for someone on-site. Bookkeepers: 78%.
Each one starts with the short answer, then shows the math.
A bookkeeper posted at $57,500 costs about $76,800 a year once you add payroll taxes and benefits. The line-by-line math, real posted pay by role, and how to bring the number down.
Read the guide →75% of US finance postings ask for someone on-site. In the postings we read by hand, 10 of 150 listed a task that needs the building. Check your own posting duty by duty.
Read the guide →Work with a right answer goes to software, work that needs judgment stays with a person, and a person checks every software result. Task by task, from 125 real bookkeeper postings.
Read the guide →Median posted pay from postings we read in full in September 2026, loaded with payroll taxes and benefits.
Median posted pay $57,500. Loaded, about $76,800 a year.
Median posted pay $67,500. Loaded, about $90,300 a year.
Median posted pay $57,494. Loaded, about $76,800 a year.
Median posted pay $125,000. Loaded, about $167,100 a year.
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