Accountants
Education
Required Level of Education
- Bachelor's Degree = 79.47%
- Master's Degree = 5.14%
- Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree) = 4.63%
- First Professional Degree - awarded for completion of a program that: requires at least 2 years of college work before entrance into the program, includes a total of at least 6 academic years of work to complete, and provides all remaining academic requirements to begin practice in a profession = 3.43%
- Post-Baccalaureate Certificate - awarded for completion of an organized program of study; designed for people who have completed a Baccalaureate degree, but do not meet the requirements of academic degrees carrying the title of Master = 2.93%
- Post-Secondary Certificate - awarded for training completed after high school (for example, in Personnel Services, Engineering-related Technologies, Vocational Home Economics, Construction Trades, Mechanics and Repairers, Precision Production Trades) = 2.11%
- Some College Courses = 1.79%
- Post-Master's Certificate - awarded for completion of an organized program of study; designed for people who have completed a Master's degree, but do not meet the requirements of academic degrees at the doctoral level = 0.50%
Related Work Experience
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 37.60%
- Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years = 34.13%
- None = 13.05%
- Over 6 years, up to and including 8 years = 5.64%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 4.69%
- Over 10 years = 2.22%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 2.10%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 0.56%
On-Site or In-Plant Training
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 30.34%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 27.36%
- Up to and including 1 month = 16.89%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 11.95%
- None = 4.41%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 3.53%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 2.89%
- Over 4 years, up to and including 10 years = 2.63%
On-the-Job Training
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 30.78%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 27.61%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 18.88%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 7.69%
- Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month = 7.30%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 3.78%
- Over 4 years, up to and including 10 years = 2.56%
- Over 10 years = 1.41%
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™ 16.0.
