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Transparency Weekly
Salary trends, firm comparisons, and accounting industry insights — delivered to your inbox.
June 12, 2026
Why I'm Not That Worried About AI
And How to Position Yourself for What’s Coming
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June 5, 2026
The New Era of Big 4 Transparency is Here! ✨
I promise it's worth checking out
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March 26, 2026
Busy Season Morale Boost
Because the small wins matter
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February 19, 2026
The Big 4 Transparency Accounting Awards 🏆
The best and the rest when it comes to happy employees
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February 3, 2026
Demystifying the Journey Ahead
Answering one of the most commonly asked questions about compensation in accounting
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December 11, 2025
Top 100 People & Role Roundup
Celebrating a collective win
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December 4, 2025
Inside the 2025 Private Equity Summit: What I Saw, What I Said, and What It Means for You
A Recap of the 2025 Private Equity Summit
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October 9, 2025
A Playbook On How I'd Start a Firm
A distillation from 80+ conversations with Accounting Entrepreneurs.
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September 24, 2025
The $100,000 H-1B Shock: What it means for accounting talent
What to expect from the changes in H-1B Visa costs
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September 18, 2025
The $200K, 15-Hour Workweek Firm
How Erica Goode hacked accounting into a life-first business
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September 11, 2025
How to Roll-Up Acquisitions Affordably
The "Box Break" Playbook
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August 28, 2025
Location, Location, Location
Small Cities, Big Smiles for Accountants
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August 21, 2025
The Coddiwomple Career Path
You don't need to settle for the traditional definition of success.
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August 8, 2025
There’s Always Money in the Banana Stand
Why the CPA path continues to be incredibly worthwhile
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August 5, 2025
What Sets Fast Growing Independent Firms Apart?
The partnership structure has steered you wrong
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July 10, 2025
Revisiting Loyalty Tax Trends & Why it Matters
The Lose-Lose Incentive Structure Firms Have Created
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June 24, 2025
The Data on DEI
Giving you the data on DEI in acocunting
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June 12, 2025
AI & Outsourcing: All Doom & Gloom?
Is there a silver lining to this talent model disruption?
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June 5, 2025
Need For Speed: Successful Recruitment
Response time are killing your recruitment efforts
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May 8, 2025
Layoffs Survival Guide
How to bounce back better than ever
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April 29, 2025
Is Partnership No Longer That Enviable?
Looking at trends in the data on return to office.
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April 9, 2025
In-Office work overtaking Remote?
Looking at trends in the data on return to office.
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April 2, 2025
Which Service Line is Best in Accounting?
Looking at job satisfaction trends in accounting
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The Big 4 Transparency Accounting Awards 🏆
The best and the rest when it comes to happy employees
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January 14, 2025
Citrin Cooperman setting the tone for 2025
Why this deal matters more than you think
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November 28, 2024
Private Equity in Accounting (Part 3)
Are employees at PE backed firms working longer hours?
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November 14, 2024
Private Equity in Accounting (Part 2)
Looking into salary trends and how Private Equity involvement affects bonuses at accounting firms.
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October 31, 2024
Private Equity in Accounting (Part 1)
Looking into salary trends and how Private Equity involvement affects salaries at accounting firms.
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September 16, 2024
No More Melancholy Mondays
Is it time to find a new role? We can help
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June 18, 2024
Who's starting their own accounting firm and why?
Sharing insights from interviews with people launching their own firms
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May 30, 2024
Does job hopping really pay off? 🐇
Revisiting Loyalty Tax Trends
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May 6, 2024
🌟👂 Lessons from Leaders
Golden takeaways from Interviews with accounting leaders
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March 26, 2024
Big 4 Transparency - Awards Season 🏆
It's awards season! Here are our picks
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February 22, 2024
Big 4 Transparency 2024 Updates
What's new?
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December 19, 2023
New Year, New.... Job?
Google Manager on how to land your dream job in industry
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December 6, 2023
Big 4 Transparency Salary Guide pt. 2
US Tax and Audit for New York and San Francisco
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November 17, 2023
It's finally here - Big 4 Transparency Salary Guide
The first Big 4 Transparency salary guide
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August 24, 2023
Ring, Ring, Ring! Class is back in session 👩🎓🧑🎓
Career planning 101 in Accounting
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August 3, 2023
Your Return to Office
The results are in on RTO and Hybrid work
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July 12, 2023
Leverage your firm's office space & build your network
How event hosting can give you the keys to career growth
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June 14, 2023
Setting Expectations Straight
What should you be earning in your first 10 years as an accounting professional?
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April 27, 2023
Crypto Tax: Untapped opportunity for CPAs
Discussing the opportunity in the Crypto Tax market
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April 5, 2023
Our 1 Year Anniversary & Celebrating 5,000
Big 4 Transparency's origin story & why salary transparency matters
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March 16, 2023
Accountant Salary Early Trends for 2023 🚥
What do you make of this data? Will the increases continue?
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February 23, 2023
Job satisfaction part 2
Ranking of job satisfaction by level and by stream
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December 19, 2022
I can’t get no satisfaction
Ranking of job satisfaction by firm, firm size, and Q4 trends
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November 22, 2022
The gender wage GAAP?
Study on pay equity between men and women in accounting
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November 3, 2022
Slow down you crazy child
Big 4 Transparency - Do higher hours lead to a higher bonus on average?
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September 28, 2022
Are you paying a loyalty tax? 🔒💰
Big 4 Transparency - External hires vs. internal promotions and their compensation
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July 26, 2022
Answering some frequently asked questions 💡
How to filter data as viewer? Is the data timely? Do I make a new entry when my comp changes?
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