CPAs in Olympia

175 certified public accountants are licensed to practise and on the Board’s record in Olympia — 0.7% of everyone Washington currently licenses.

What the address on the record means, and what it does not

The Board records one place per licence holder. It is where the Board writes to them — not necessarily where they practise, and not a list of firms in Olympia. Someone with a Olympia address may serve clients across the state, and a firm in Olympia may be staffed by CPAs recorded elsewhere.

Read against that limit, the number is still worth something: it says how many people Washington currently licenses with a Olympia address, which is the closest a public register gets to the size of the local profession.

When they renew

Washington renews CPA licences every three years, between 1 January and 30 April. That splits Olympia into cohorts:

The deadline that actually bites is earlier: the 120 hours of continuing education must be complete by 31 December of the preceding year. How the three-year cycle works.

How long they have been licensed

55 of the 175 CPAs on the record in Olympia were first licensed before 2000 — 31.4%. By decade of first licence:

Board orders

None of the 175 licences held in Olympia has a Board order published against it. Note what that does and does not mean: the Board has published orders as documents only since 1 January 2020, so an older matter would not show here at all.

Looking for a CPA in Olympia?

A licence is the legal minimum to practise, not a recommendation, and this site makes none. Tell us what you need and we pass the enquiry to people holding a current Washington licence — 175 of them are on the record in Olympia.

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Registered CPA firms in Olympia

Alongside the 175 individually licensed CPAs, the Board lists 20 registered CPA firms with a Olympia address. The two registers are separate: a firm registration is not a licence held by any person, and the file does not say who works where.

6 of them — 30.0% — are sole proprietorships: one person practising under a trading name, with no separate entity behind it. Worth knowing before picturing an office. What each legal form means.

The 175 CPAs on the record in Olympia

Named as the Board holds them, 140 rows at most — the whole register, lapsed licences included, is in the search.

By renewal cohort in Olympia

• Olympia CPAs renewing by 30 April 2027 — 74
• Olympia CPAs renewing by 30 April 2028 — 64
• Olympia CPAs renewing by 30 April 2029 — 37

Towns of a similar size for the profession

• Tacoma 273
• Sammamish 269
• Redmond 264
• Bellingham 242
• Edmonds 231
• Issaquah 213
• Lynnwood 208
• Everett 171
• Shoreline 166
• Snohomish 163
• Kent 159
• Woodinville 157
• Spokane Valley 156

Neighbours by size, not a ranking: this list slides with the town you are on, so each of the 91 city pages is reachable from the others rather than only the largest few. All of them.