Texas / Comptroller of Public Accounts / Accountant V
Job-title file
Accountant V
Maintain financial records, prepare budgets and reports, and ensure compliance with fiscal rules.
27 employees hold this title in Comptroller of Public Accounts. Median total compensation for the role is $76,044, below the department median of $80,437.
- Employees
- 27
- Total payroll
- $2.1M
- Role median
- $76,044
- Agency median
- $80,437
- Comparison
- Below
What the records show
Role pay distribution
Pay distribution for this role
How total compensation varies among the 27 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
Accountant V pay vs. Texas
Across all employers in Texas, the median wage for Accountants and Auditors — about 116,470 people — is $80,920. Comptroller of Public Accounts pays a median base salary of $78,427 for this role, 3% below that figure — about the 46th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Comptroller of Public Accounts sits in the local pay range
The bar is the range of annual wages for Accountants and Auditors across every employer in Texas, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Comptroller of Public Accounts’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. Comptroller of Public Accounts’s median base salary is 6% below that national figure, about the 42nd 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 Texas range relative to the national one.
Median total compensation for this role at Comptroller of Public Accounts is $78,427, 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
This role across Texas
Accountant V is held in 52 Texas departments. In Comptroller of Public Accounts, the median of $76,044 ranks #21 of 52.
Highest-paying departments for this role
Median total compensation for the Accountant V role in other Texasdepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
Accountant beyond Texas
This role is reported in 38 jurisdictions. In Texas, the median of $61,333 ranks #22 of 38. See Accountant across all of Texas →
Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role
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.
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