Hiring and salaries grew more quickly for accountants than any other job group last year, according to a new report.
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The shortage of accounting talent and the financial complexity of managing a global workforce resulted in accountants seeing bigger salary gains than software engineers last year.
The report aggregates data from Deel's more than 1 million contracts and over 35,000 customers across more than 150 countries.
"For most of the past decade, companies couldn't hire software engineers fast enough," said the report. "The fierce competition drove up their salaries. While software engineers are still the most-hired occupation for Deel clients, accounting is becoming the new must-have skill for global organizations. Declining interest in the profession from early-career workers and the increasingly complex tax requirements of a global workforce have made accountants a precious, and increasingly pricy, commodity."
The U.S., Australia and Great Britain were the most likely countries to hire accountants abroad. Accountants are most likely to be hired in the Philippines, the U.S. and Argentina. Mexico and Singapore follow closely. Deel saw a 17% increase in salary over the year for cross-border workers, and 9% increase for domestic workers.
The report also found that while organizations are still hiring globally, there has been an uptick in the number of employers who are favoring candidates closer to home. Companies are especially focused on keeping younger workers happy, with Gen Z receiving bigger raises in 2024 than other generations.
