Accounting January 2026
Emerging
Benchmark status
We consider this an emerging benchmark: it has enough data available for us to use bootstrapping to create a representative sample. As the sample grows in size, some scores may slightly change. Our research has shown that our bootstrapped scores are consistent with our standard benchmarks. Read more about the methodology.
Data provided by Culture Amp
Most represented industries in this benchmark
Accounting
Most represented regions in this benchmark
Oceania
48%
Northern America
34%
Europe
13%
Asia
5%
Reported gender breakdown
Female
58%
Male
41%
Non-Binary
0.01%
Are employees committed to their organizations?
Engaged people are emotionally committed to their organization. These people stay at their organizations longer and are more productive and effective. Successful organizations have more engaged employees.
71% of Accounting employees are engaged
This is in the top 45% compared with other industries.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 26 and is in the top 7% compared with other industries.
How does Accounting compare?
People in Accounting were much more positive than average regarding Inclusion.
On the lower side, people in Accounting had much lower favorable scores than average in Service & Quality Focus and Innovation.
People working in Accounting are more engaged than Public Relations & Communications, Higher Education, Government Administration, and Government. People working in Accounting are less engaged than Investment Management, Legal Services, Venture Capital & Private Equity, and Engaging Growth.
The highest scoring question for Accounting had 89% of people agreeing that they are able to arrange time out from work when they need to (+2% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.
People in Accounting were generally least favourable about Action, and were most negative towards 'When it is clear that someone is not delivering in their role we do something about it' with 17% of people disagreeing (+0% above average).
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 17% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (-3% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 9% of people see themselves leaving within two years (-1% compared to overall).
Understanding Tenure distributions
Tenure describes how long an employee has worked for their company: we know through our research that newly hired employees tend to be more positive than their tenured counterparts. Positivity declines sharply before bottoming out between two to six years, then rises slightly for those that remain.
The tenure composition of a benchmark can influence overall scores.
Tenure distributions
Less than 3 months
4%
3 months to 6 months
4%
6 months to less than 1 year
9%
1 to less than 2 years
16%
2 to less than 4 years
26%
4 to less than 6 years
11%
6 to less than 10 years
14%
Greater than 10 years
16%