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# Working as an accountant in France

In France, the occupation group "Professionals", which includes accountants, earns ≈ 4,058 EUR/month (gross, 2022). To work as an accountant in France on an EU Blue Card, the salary must be at least 59,373 € a year (current). Accountant is a regulated profession in France. Foreign qualifications go through: Foreign expert-comptable applicants submit a dossier and pass the applicable aptitude examination; non-EU applicants have written business/social/tax law and oral professional-regulation components.

- Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals": ≈ 4,058 EUR/month (gross, 2022)
- Regulation: Regulated
- Recognition route: Foreign expert-comptable applicants submit a dossier and pass the applicable aptitude examination; non-EU applicants have written business/social/tax law and oral professional-regulation components.; General system of recognition - primary application
- Recognition authority: The Ordre des experts-comptables reviews foreign qualification applications and later handles regional registration.
- EU Blue Card threshold: 59,373 €/year (current)

## Sources

Foreign expert-comptable recognition and Order registration rules. — https://www.experts-comptables.fr/devenir-expert-comptable/la-reconnaissance-des-qualifications
JSON list[].id=659079; list[].name; list[].country; list[].directive; list[].qualification; list[].qualification_level — https://api.tech.ec.europa.eu/regprof20/prodmigration/regprofs?lang=EN&id_country=6&pagenum=1&maxrows=100&sort_col=1&sort_dir=ASC
Country work-route threshold — https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/article_lc/LEGIARTI000051738426/2026-04-28
Structure of Earnings Survey 2022 (earn_ses22_25) — https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/earn_ses22_25?lang=en&format=JSON&freq=A&sex=T&indic_se=ERN&sizeclas=10-49&unit=EUR&geo=FR

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@misc{immigrationdb_immigrationdb_accountant-in-france-salary-and-recognition_dd9d4602ecdc,
  author = {ImmigrationDB},
  title = {Accountant in France: salary and recognition},
  publisher = {ImmigrationDB},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-25},
  version = {154e1d2a228a91c6ee53e69dc2c8e88b},
  url = {https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/accountant/france/},
  note = {Retrieved 2026-10-25. ImmigrationDB compilation. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
}
```

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