Robert Half Selects Five Hottest Job Fields

Robert Half, a dominant placement firm for accounting and finance professionals, listed the five lines which they felt were best positioned for growth in 2007. The fields included internal auditing, compliance executives, financial analysts, staff accountants and external auditors. Estimated salaries for experienced personnel ranged from slightly over $50,000 for staff accountants to about $180,000 for compliance executives.

One of the great signs of the health of the accounting profession is that no specifically tax-oriented jobs made the growth list in spite of three significant pieces of tax-oriented legislation passed in 2006. For new college graduates, this hiring season will be one of the most promising in recent memory.