Which pays more, Auditor or Bookkeeper?

The median advertised salary for each is in the table above, along with the 25th and 75th percentiles so you can see the spread rather than one number.

Which has more openings?

Both counts are live and computed at the same moment, so the comparison is like for like.

Postings are read from company career systems continuously; the age row shows how old the listings themselves are.

Side by side

Auditor vs Bookkeeper

Auditor pays more: a median of $100,500 against $90,500. There is 1.7× more demand for Bookkeeper. Listings for Auditor move faster — median age 35 days against 74.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	Auditor	Bookkeeper	Gap
Open postings	22,274	38,180	-15,906
Posted this week	1,638	1,117
Median salary	$100,500	$90,500	+$10k
25th percentile	$79.5k	$71.5k
75th percentile	$125k	$112k
Salary disclosed	2.9%	5.0%
Remote share	10.1%	6.1%	+4.0pp
Median age of posting	35d	74d
Open over 60 days	34.7%	44.4%
Visa sponsorship	17.8%	11.2%

Pay

Pay distribution

Auditor

$45k$174k

Bookkeeper

$41k$157k

Freshness

How old the listings are

Auditor

just posted35d median90d+

Bookkeeper

just posted74d median90d+

Demand

What each side asks for

Auditor — technologies

Figma

72.0%

Node.js

65.8%

59.6%

AWS

53.4%

Java

47.2%

Swift

41.0%

React

34.8%

Bookkeeper — technologies

Tableau

72.0%

dbt

65.8%

Swift

59.6%

React

53.4%

Airflow

47.2%

Terraform

41.0%

Azure

34.8%

Auditor — employers

Meridian Software

9.4%

Fairmount Legal

8.7%

Northwind Systems

8.0%

Brightline Retail

7.2%

Ironbark Manufacturing

6.5%

Cobalt Financial

5.8%

Lakeshore Hospitality

5.1%

Bookkeeper — employers

Vantage Logistics

9.4%

Aperture Labs

8.7%

Ironbark Manufacturing

8.0%

Meridian Software

7.2%

Cobalt Financial

6.5%

Rivergate Media

5.8%

Halcyon Energy

5.1%

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Both sides are counted the same way on the same day, so the gap is comparable even where the absolute numbers move. Salary figures use only postings that publish a range — the disclosure rate is in the table because a median over 20% of a cohort is a weaker number than one over 70%.