Compared with the local labor market
Accountant Intern pay vs. the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA area
Across all employers in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA area, the median wage for Accountants and Auditors — about 25,170 people — is $110,730. Children Youth & Families pays a median base salary of $88,041 for this role, 20% below that figure — about the 24th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Children Youth & Families sits in the local pay range
$73,420
$88,820
$110,730
$143,590
$180,060
Children Youth & Families median · $88,041
The bar is the range of annual wages for Accountants and Auditors across every employer in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Children Youth & Families’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. Children Youth & Families’s median base salary is 5% above that national figure, about the 54th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
$56,020
$67,020
$83,680
$109,810
$144,090
Children Youth & Families median · $88,041
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 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA range relative to the national one.
Median total compensation for this role at Children Youth & Families is $127,075, 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.