Top earners based in Leinster
The latest annual survey by the Leinster Society of Chartered Accountants (LSCA) showed a typical chartered accountant, who qualified in 2000, earned €72,400 a year. This compared with a typical figure of €71,000 last year.
But the survey, which covered almost 700 full-time and part-time accountants, also threw up evidence of wide discrepancies in pay. The lowest salary quoted by respondents was €34,000, which was the pay packet of a senior in a firm outside the top four of KPMG, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Ernst & Young and Deloitte.
