City of Buffalo / Audit / Senior Accountant
Job-title file
Maintain financial records, prepare budgets and reports, and ensure compliance with fiscal rules.
1 employees hold this title in Audit. Median total compensation for the role is $60,395, below the department median of $61,640.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY area, the median wage for Accountants and Auditors — about 4,870 people — is $82,120. Audit pays a median base salary of $42,783 for this role, 48% below that figure — below the 10th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Accountants and Auditors across every employer in the Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Audit’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. Audit’s median base salary is 49% below that national figure, below the 10th 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 Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY range relative to the national one.
Median total compensation for this role at Audit is $60,395, 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
Senior Accountant is held in 3 City of Buffalo departments. In Audit, the median of $60,395 ranks #2 of 3.
Median total compensation for the Senior Accountant role in other City of Buffalodepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 8 jurisdictions. In City of Buffalo, the median of $64,176 ranks #4 of 8. See Senior Accountant across all of City of Buffalo →
Median total compensation for comparable Senior 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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Senior Accountant/Audit
Source-specific fields
Rachael Cox works as a Senior Accountant for Audit within General Government Support. Rachael earned $60,395 in 2026.