Tasks in the US, Canada, the UK and the EU, with the rate on every one. See open tasks
Accountant is one of the titles we hear most. These are the part-time roles where your experience carries over, what they pay per hour, and the tasks open now. About five hours a week, next to your main job.
By Grace Huang, Director, Finance & Accounting · Edited by Helena Voss · Published
Accountants have the easiest route into side work because the work cuts cleanly into pieces: a month-end close for a small company, a reconciliation backlog, a review of someone else's workpapers. Most of these tasks follow a calendar, so you know in advance which weeks will be busy and which will be quiet.
The usual trap is timing. Your own employer closes the books in the same week as everyone else, so pick recurring tasks with a later deadline, or one-off cleanups that can wait until the tenth working day. Keep client files on the company's systems, never on a personal laptop, and say no to anything that touches a client of your employer.
In our data: 1,341 open tasks across the 4 roles that fit an accountant, 64% of them remote. The typical senior rate for Bookkeeper is $35 in the US, £23 in the UK, CA$45 in Canada and €35 in Germany an hour, before the company's 15% fee. The other roles that fit are Month-End Close Accountant, Accounts Payable Specialist, AI Evaluator: Accounting. Most of these tasks are sized for 3 to 10 hours a week. Rates come from official wage statistics aged to October 2026; see the full table by country.
The best match is first. Each role page shows the rate by country and level.
Day-to-day bookkeeping for small companies: coding, reconciliations and clean monthly books.
320 open tasksMonth-End Close AccountantRuns the monthly close: journals, accruals, intercompany and the checklist, handed back on the due date.
287 open tasksAccounts Payable SpecialistProcesses vendor invoices, matches them to orders and receipts, and runs payment batches on schedule.
305 open tasksAI Evaluator: AccountingRates and corrects AI answers to accounting questions against a written rubric.
Tasks in the roles above, newest first, each with the hourly rate.
Senior · Accounts Payable Specialist
Packaging manufacturer supplying aerospace · 51–200 employees
$35–$44 / hour
About $600 a month at 4 h a week
Manager · Month-End Close Accountant
Boutique advisory firm for retailers · 5,000+ employees
$83–$102 / hour
About $600 a month at 2 h a week
Senior · Accounts Payable Specialist
Series C collaboration software company for field-service companies · 201–500 employees
$38–$44 / hour
About $530 a month at 3 h a week
Manager · Month-End Close Accountant
Health insurer for homeowners · 201–500 employees
€51–€64 / hour
About €230–€580 in total
Director · AI Evaluator: Accounting
Series A medical devices company for primary care · 51–200 employees
€49–€59 / hour
About €1,640 a month at 7 h a week
Manager · AI Evaluator: Accounting
Health insurer covering fleets and logistics · 5,000+ employees
$66–$84 / hour
About $1,950 a month at 6 h a week
Three checks that take ten minutes.
The same rules apply to every task, so they live on two pages: Pricing explains the 15% fee, prepayment and when you are paid; How it works covers matching, what a company sees and side work next to a job.
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