Senior Accounting Systems Analyst

Maintain financial records, prepare budgets and reports, and ensure compliance with fiscal rules.

33 employees hold this title in Auditor-Controller. Median total compensation for the role is $248,910, above the department median of $154,993.

Employees: 33
Total payroll: $7.9M
Role median: $248,910
Agency median: $154,993
Comparison: Above

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$89,041$269,906+

Hover a bar for its range; click to filter the list below.

How total compensation varies among the 33 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

Senior Accounting Systems Analyst pay vs. the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area

Across all employers in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area, the median wage for Accountants and Auditors — about 70,640 people — is $94,360. Auditor-Controller pays a median base salary of $145,872 for this role, 55% above that figure — about the 86th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Where Auditor-Controller sits in the local pay range

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$60,310

$74,060

$94,360

$122,290

$154,630

Auditor-Controller median · $145,872

The bar is the range of annual wages for Accountants and Auditors across every employer in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Auditor-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. Auditor-Controller’s median base salary is 74% above that national figure, above the 90th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th

25th

Median

75th

90th

$56,020

$67,020

$83,680

$109,810

$144,090

Auditor-Controller median · $145,872

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 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA range relative to the national one.

Median total compensation for this role at Auditor-Controller is $248,910, 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.

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