Allegheny County, Pennsylvania / Controller / Accountant
Job-title file
Maintain financial records, prepare budgets and reports, and ensure compliance with fiscal rules.
13 employees hold this title in Controller. Median total compensation for the role is $61,216, below the department median of $62,080.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 13 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Pittsburgh, PA area, the median wage for Accountants and Auditors — about 10,430 people — is $76,940. Controller pays a median base salary of $61,216 for this role, 20% below that figure — about the 26th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Accountants and Auditors across every employer in the Pittsburgh, PA area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Controller’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Accountants and Auditors — about 1,449,500 people — is $83,680. Controller’s median base salary is 27% below that national figure, about the 17th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Pittsburgh, PA range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 11 of 13 people in this role paid at least $25,000in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.
Median total compensation for this role at Controller is $61,216, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.
Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.
Compare departments
Accountant is held in 3 Allegheny County, Pennsylvania departments. In Controller, the median of $61,216 ranks #2 of 3.
Median total compensation for the Accountant role in other Allegheny County, Pennsylvaniadepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 38 jurisdictions. In Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, the median of $58,026 ranks #24 of 38. See Accountant across all of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania →
Median total compensation for comparable Accountantroles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.
Record list
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Accountant/Controller
Source-specific fields
At Controller, Zhaorong Xie serves as a Accountant. Records show a hire date of 8/7/2006. Their 2025 pay totaled $72,889.
Accountant/Controller
Source-specific fields
David M Cafaro works as a Accountant for Controller. Their hire date on record is 4/3/2000. David earned $72,764 in 2025.