Accountants and Auditors
Cleveland, OH metropolitan area. Estimated employment 10,740.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of accountants and auditors in Cleveland earn more.
$80,000 in Cleveland buys what $85,200 buys across the country as a whole.
Cleveland's regional price parity is 93.9 — below the national average, so a dollar here goes further than the nominal figure suggests. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.
The same job, elsewhere in Ohio
Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.
| Metro area | Median | Adjusted | RPP | vs. Cleveland |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbus | $81,700 | $85,600 | 95.5 | +0.5% |
| Cincinnati | $80,640 | $84,600 | 95.4 | −0.7% |
| Cleveland This page | $80,000 | $85,200 | 93.9 | — |
| Dayton | $79,030 | $85,300 | 92.7 | +0.1% |
| Akron | $78,540 | $84,100 | 93.4 | −1.2% |
| Toledo | $77,400 | $84,600 | 91.5 | −0.6% |
| Sandusky | $74,360 | $83,300 | 89.3 | −2.2% |
| Youngstown | $73,080 | $83,600 | 87.4 | −1.8% |
Price parity and difference against Cleveland are in the full table on wider screens.
How this page was made
- Wage data
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
- Price parity
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
- Employment
- 10,740 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 13-2011, Accountants and Auditors. Mapped to our taxonomy as accountants-and-auditors.
Percentiles are reported exactly as released and are never interpolated between published values. We take no payment from employers, recruiters or anyone else for how any figure is presented.