[Fil-Am]

My friend is working in another company and they’re doing a little study on their existing salary scale. She is a Senior Accountant and a licensed CPA. Before getting her licensed, she was an accountant and her salary was on BS degree scale. They don’t have a separate scale for Accountant or Senior Accountant.

Below is a class of their salary scale:

BS

BS + 18hrs

Master’s Degree

Master’s + 30 hours

Doctor’s Degree

Providing no separate salary scale is created for an accountant position, to which salary scale above does having a CPA license fall into?

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[mla1169]

Personally I don't feel you can correlate a professional license on a scale like that because obviously a masters degree without a CPA is going to receive a lower salary than a masters degree with a CPA.

That said, if she MUST stick to those criteria, I'd find out what the salary ranges are for those particular salaries and look up a senior accountant CPA on the Robert half salary guide in that geographic area and see where there are similar salaries.

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[Anonymous]

Teachers are grouped exactly like your list, so I wonder if this is a school board or a governmental agency. If so, then they should look at larger school districts to see what is comparable pay. If not, then they could add some categories:

Bachelors w/150

Bachelors w/150 + CPA

Masters + CPA

PhD + CPA

But if you do this, then you could potentially be adding the entire alphabet after the degree.

[Fil-Am]

Thanks mla1169. @Kricket – you're right, it's a school district and this is a salary scale for teachers. There's a little chance, a new class will be created but more likely not. As you said, if they add another category, they could potentially be adding the entire alphabet.

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[michaelabs22]

I agree with Kricket as far as finding comparable pay. I am the CFO of a school and am not on any sort of salary scale. For upper level administrative (I'd assume accountant/senior accountant as well) it is based on experience/degrees/size of the district/school you're in instead of some type of step scale like teachers.

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I don't know of any scale so I created my own. See which one you fit into.

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[Anonymous]

Like others have said, it doesn't really fit the scale, but if I was tasked with finding a place for it on the scale I'd go with somewhere between BS+18 and Master's, since it's a BS+30 (at least in most states) to qualify for the CPA, but doesn't necessarily require Master's. So, more than BS+18, but possibly less than Master's. However, given that it has a certification with the BS with the 30 extra, I'd lean towards Master's as the best equivalence – same (or close) number of credit hours plus a beyond-Bachelor's recognition, though not in the form of a Master's.

[Fil-Am]

Thank you all.

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