Senior Accountant
Strategic Employment
San Mateo, CA · Posted November 3, 2026
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Where San Mateo, CA ranks
Where San Mateo, CA placed in our monthly rankings, month by month. Each month stays online at its own address.
November 2026
- #1Best cities for engineering pay after cost of living$216k · of 94
- #1Best cities for finance pay after cost of living$162k · of 35
- #1Best cities for HR pay after cost of living$158k · of 15
- #1Best cities for legal pay after cost of living$238k · of 20
- #1Best cities for security pay after cost of living$241k · of 10
- #1Best cities for media and entertainment pay after cost of living$209k · of 9
Rankings about finance jobs
- Best cities for finance jobs #1 New York (1,932 openings)
- Best cities for finance pay after cost of living #1 San Mateo ($162k)
- Most requested AI skills in finance jobs #1 AI tools in daily work (4.3%)
- AI tools named most often in finance jobs #1 Claude (0.55%)
- Employers with the most finance jobs #1 Amazon (475 roles)
Pay compared with the market
This listing does not state pay. Across 391 open senior accountant listings that state pay, the middle half runs $87,500 to $111,000 and the median is $100,000.
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How AI is used in this kind of work
Among accountants and auditors, AI is already used for a large share of the tasks. Measured exposure for accountants and auditors: 35% (high).
Share of this job’s tasks that AI is already used for at work, from real usage. It is not a forecast of job loss, and a low number means no use seen yet. Source: Anthropic Economic Index.
About the job
... Senior AccountantA well-funded, fast-growing AI company on the San Francisco Peninsula is adding a Senior Accountant as it brings its bookkeeping in-house from an outside firm. This is the first dedicated, hands-on accountant on a small finance team that recently moved...