CPA Salary in Dallas, TX 2026,
$82,620 Median | BLS + Market Data

Dallas CPAs earn a BLS median of $82,620/yr, or $39.72 an hour, published for the combined Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro, with a band of $57,940 to $133,540. That is 2.1% above the Texas statewide median and 1.3% below the US median. The wage row covers accountants and auditors generally, so it includes non-licensed accountants alongside CPAs.

Slightly — 2.1% above the Texas statewide median. Houston's energy accounting market pays comparably, and Austin's technology finance roles have caught up, so Texas is fairly even. The metroplex's advantage is the sheer number of corporate finance functions headquartered or centralised here rather than a higher rate.

Not at the same level, but it accelerates faster early. Public accounting managers and specialised tax practitioners sit in the upper quarter of the band, and the metroplex's transaction advisory practices reach toward the $133,540 top. Corporate roles pay comparably at senior levels with better hours, which is why the standard local path remains a few years in public accounting followed by a move into industry.

Through the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy: an accredited degree with the required accounting and business credit hours, passing the Uniform CPA Examination, an ethics requirement and documented supervised experience. The licence is statewide. Because so many metroplex employers are national companies, mobility provisions for practising across state lines matter here more than in most Texas markets.

One of the best in the country by volume. The metroplex hosts an exceptional concentration of corporate headquarters, shared-services centres and national firm offices, which means 37,450 counted positions and genuine mobility between employers. Pay tracks the national median rather than exceeding it, so the case for Dallas is opportunity density plus no state income tax.

The metroplex is one of the country's largest concentrations of corporate accounting employment, yet its median sits marginally below the US figure. The explanation is composition: much of that employment is shared-services and financial-reporting work centralised here precisely because costs are lower than in the coastal markets those functions moved from. High volume at moderate rates is the deliberate design of the region's corporate finance sector.

This covers accountants and auditors as a BLS category, blending licensed CPAs with unlicensed staff accountants — the CPA-only figure would sit higher. It also reports base wages, excluding the busy-season overtime and annual bonuses that are standard in public accounting, and it combines Dallas, Fort Worth and the suburban corporate corridor into one estimate.

The metroplex's accounting career structure is unusually legible. Public accounting firms hire in volume, train to the licence, and lose people to the corporate finance functions concentrated in the same metro — often to clients. That churn is why replacement demand runs so far ahead of the 4.6% growth projection, and why the licence is worth more here as a portable signal than as a requirement for any single job.