Working as an accountant in Ireland
What official sources say about working as an accountant in Ireland: what the occupation group earns and how foreign qualifications are recognised.
In Ireland, the occupation group "Professionals", which includes accountants, earns ≈ 6,785 EUR/month (gross, 2024). Accountant is a regulated profession in Ireland. Foreign qualifications go through: Use the competent professional body for the specific chartered/certified/audit activity; recognition is body- and qualification-specific, with a distinct MNC audit case.
- Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals"
- ≈ 6,785 EUR/month (gross, 2024)
- Regulation
- Regulated
- Recognition route
- Use the competent professional body for the specific chartered/certified/audit activity; recognition is body- and qualification-specific, with a distinct MNC audit case.
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals" in Ireland: ≈ 6,785 EUR/month (gross, 2024), from ILO. 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 a regulated profession in Ireland.
- Recognition route
- Use the competent professional body for the specific chartered/certified/audit activity; recognition is body- and qualification-specific, with a distinct MNC audit case. General system of recognition - primary application.
- Recognition authority
- The relevant recognised accountancy body; DETE lists several bodies and a separate MNC global-audit pathway.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Accountant in Ireland: salary and recognition [ImmigrationDB compilation; version e108b4c5716a7b79ef8a50d1f3110208]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/accountant/ireland/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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