Accounting Technician

What the Numbers Say About Accounting Technician

0.2% of the federal civilian workforce (2,289,472 employees total, March 2025) works in the Accounting Technician occupation (OPM code 525): 4,837 people, headcount down -2.4% versus the prior period, a modest but trackable signal for anyone considering this specialized federal career path.

Accounting Technician pays $55,032 per year on average, 49.9% below the $109,869 federal civilian average, after moving up 2.0% from the prior period (a modest shift, consistent with routine locality pay and grade-level movement). Employees in this role stay an average of 10.3 years, a mid-length average tenure, reflecting a mix of career employees and those who transfer or exit mid-career.

Accounting Technician sits inside the Accounting and Budget Group family (code 5), which contains 18 related occupations across the federal government. Candidates browsing USAJOBS for Accounting Technician postings should also review these sibling occupations, since federal hiring managers often cross-post positions across closely related codes when recruitment is difficult. All figures here come directly from OPM FedScope Employment Cubes, the same official source referenced in federal workforce planning, budget justifications, and GAO reports.

Inside the Accounting and Budget Group family (18 occupations, 124,386 employees combined), Accounting Technician holds the #9 spot by headcount, a 3.9% share of the family total. Its average salary ranks in the bottom half (22nd percentile) of pay among Accounting and Budget Group occupations.