Working as an accountant in Latvia
What official sources say about working as an accountant in Latvia: what the occupation group earns and how foreign qualifications are recognised.
In Latvia, the occupation group "Professionals", which includes accountants, earns ≈ 2,488 EUR/month (gross, 2022). Accountant is a regulated profession in Latvia. Foreign qualifications go through: An outsourced-accounting provider needs a VID licence; the responsible accountant must satisfy education and experience rules.
- Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals"
- ≈ 2,488 EUR/month (gross, 2022)
- Regulation
- Regulated
- Recognition route
- An outsourced-accounting provider needs a VID licence; the responsible accountant must satisfy education and experience rules.
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals" in Latvia: ≈ 2,488 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 a regulated profession in Latvia.
- Recognition route
- An outsourced-accounting provider needs a VID licence; the responsible accountant must satisfy education and experience rules.
- Recognition authority
- The State Revenue Service issues licences for outsourced accounting-service providers.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Accountant in Latvia: salary and recognition [ImmigrationDB compilation; version d6016a7617d6368c992bed9a480cae1d]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/accountant/latvia/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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