Bookkeeper hourly rate: Bookkeeper Pay Benchmark

The median published figure in the Bookkeeper Pay Benchmark is 49,055 USD across 2 sources' own pages in USD (range 47,440 to 50,670 USD; 3 sources publish a figure), read 15 September 2026.

Median published figure
49,055 USD
Range
47,440 to 50,670 USD
Sources with a figure
2
Sources read that publish one
3 of 6
  1. BLS - Occupational Outlook Handbook, bookkeeping, accounting and auditing clerks50,670 USD
  2. BLS - OES 43-3031, May 202347,440 USD

3 of the 6 named sources read in full publish a figure; 3 publish none, read 15 September 2026.

By measure and experience

BreakdownMedianRangeSources
measure median annual wage, OES percentile table47,440 USD47,440 to 47,440 USD1
experience starter (GB)24,000 GBP24,000 to 24,000 GBP1
experience experienced (GB)35,000 GBP35,000 to 35,000 GBP1

Every figure, with its source

One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.

SourceFigureBreakdownRead
BLS - Occupational Outlook Handbook, bookkeeping, accounting and auditing clerks 50,670 USD 2026-09-12
BLS - OES 43-3031, May 2023 47,440 USD median annual wage, OES percentile table 2026-09-11
National Careers Service - bookkeeper (UK) 35,000 GBP experienced (GB) 2026-09-11
National Careers Service - bookkeeper (UK) 24,000 GBP starter (GB) 2026-09-11
The sentence each figure was read from (4)

Read in full, publishes no figure

3 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.

Methodology

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through the estate's fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).

3 of the 6 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 3 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.

The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in USD (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 32 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.

Derivation as chartered: the statistical agency's median hourly and annual wage for the occupation, per state and per UK region, set against the outsourced monthly price from the flagship index to give the buyer the only comparison that decides the question - what an hour of in-house bookkeeping costs against what an hour of outsourced costs; the series over releases, so the page can say what changed

32 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.

Sources (6)
Cite or embed this figure

Cite or embed this figure

The median published figure in the Bookkeeper Pay Benchmark is 49,055 USD across 2 sources' own pages in USD (range 47,440 to 50,670 USD; 3 sources publish a figure), read 15 September 2026.

3 of the 6 named sources read in full publish a figure; 3 publish none, read 15 September 2026.

Bookkeeper Pay Benchmark, measure median annual wage, OES percentile table: median 47,440 USD across 1 source, read 15 September 2026.

Bookkeeper Pay Benchmark, experience starter (GB): median 24,000 GBP across 1 source, read 15 September 2026.

Bookkeeper Pay Benchmark, experience experienced (GB): median 35,000 GBP across 1 source, read 15 September 2026.

Cite as: "Reconzy Bookkeeper Pay Benchmark", updated 2026-09-15, https://reconzy.com/datasets/bookkeeper-pay-benchmark/.

Embed this figure (plain HTML, no scripts)

49,055 USD

median published figure, Bookkeeper Pay Benchmark, across 3 sources, read 15 September 2026

Source: Reconzy Bookkeeper Pay Benchmark

Download the CSV (4 rows, computed 2026-09-15)

Start Reconzy ProKeep this quote