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Accountant or Auditor in Fresno

17 postings read · sampled 2026-10-01 · source ats · 14 employers · largest 24% of it

What employers actually ask for

Credentials named in the 17 postings we read, ranked by how many mentioned each one.

What it costs

Exam and application fees plus typical self-study hours. Almost nobody needs every credential on this list — start with the top line.

Most-asked-for, on its own
$1,500CPA · ~400 hrs
asked for in 11 of 17 postings — 65%
If you earned all 1 of them
$1,500
fees checked 2026-08
400 hrs
400 hours — about 40 weeks at 10 hrs/wk

Not in the total: Bachelor's Degree — cost varies by institution.

What the official taxonomy says

O*NET surveys people already doing this job. That describes who got hired over a long window, not what employers are asking for now — where it disagrees with the counts above, the counts are the more current answer.

Education reported by people doing this job
69%reported bachelor’s degree
  • Bachelor’s degree69%
  • Associate’s degree or other 2-year degree7%
  • Post-baccalaureate certificate7%

Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed. Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.

O*NET 13-2011.00 · pulled 2026-10-01 · percentages are of surveyed workers, each rounded separately, so they need not total 100

This sample is small enough that one posting moves any percentage by more than a couple of points, so we are not calling anything low-signal here. Read the numbers above as a direction, not a measurement.

What it pays

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. A different survey from the postings above, so the two do not share a sample.

$56,700
10th percentile
$78,690
median
$128,600
90th percentile

Every credential above costs $1,500 — about 5 days' pay at the median.

Who was hiring

Employers with at least one matching posting in this sample.

SpaceX · 360 IT Professionals · Agility Robotics · Artech Information System · Blue Bottle Coffee · Figma · Formic · Gusto · Rocket Lab · Saronic · SBT Global · Scale AI · Sierra · Skild AI

The same role elsewhere

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