Working as an accountant in Bulgaria
What official sources say about working as an accountant in Bulgaria: what the occupation group earns and how foreign qualifications are recognised.
In Bulgaria, the occupation group "Professionals", which includes accountants, earns ≈ 1,187 EUR/month (gross, 2022). Accountant is not a regulated profession in Bulgaria. Foreign qualifications go through: Employer assesses a foreign qualification for ordinary accounting work. A foreign auditor seeking Bulgarian statutory-auditor status follows the separate audit-act examination and CPOSA register process; that status is not inferred for an ordinary accountant.
- Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals"
- ≈ 1,187 EUR/month (gross, 2022)
- Regulation
- Not marked regulated
- Recognition route
- Employer assesses a foreign qualification for ordinary accounting work. A foreign auditor seeking Bulgarian statutory-auditor status follows the separate audit-act examination and CPOSA register process; that status is not inferred for an ordinary accountant.
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals" in Bulgaria: ≈ 1,187 EUR/month (gross, 2022), from Eurostat. An occupation group is wider than one job title: it is the pay of everyone the group holds, not of accountants alone.
Regulation and recognition
Accountant is not a regulated profession in Bulgaria.
- Recognition route
- Employer assesses a foreign qualification for ordinary accounting work. A foreign auditor seeking Bulgarian statutory-auditor status follows the separate audit-act examination and CPOSA register process; that status is not inferred for an ordinary accountant.
- Recognition authority
- For an ordinary accountant/bookkeeper, NACID assigns foreign professional qualification recognition to the employer. Registered auditor is a separate regulated title; IDES and CPOSA handle its examination and register stages.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Accountant in Bulgaria: salary and recognition [ImmigrationDB compilation; version da11b5dea3dd1521ac64dbb478c1931f]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/accountant/bulgaria/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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