CPAs in Seattle

2,364 certified public accountants are licensed to practise and on the Board’s record in Seattle — 9.1% 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 Seattle. Someone with a Seattle address may serve clients across the state, and a firm in Seattle 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 Seattle 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 Seattle 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

290 of the 2,364 CPAs on the record in Seattle were first licensed before 2000 — 12.3%. By decade of first licence:

Board orders

5 of the 2,364 licences held in Seattle has a Board order published against it — 0.2%.

This site publishes that count and no more: never who. The Board publishes each order as a signed document, and the document is the only thing that can say what happened — so we link to it from the individual record and nowhere else. Orders have been published as documents only since 1 January 2020; for anything earlier the Board asks that you call its enforcement line on (360) 664-9266.

Looking for a CPA in Seattle?

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 — 2,364 of them are on the record in Seattle.

We vouch for nobody, and we have no arrangement with any firm today — we are collecting these requests in order to go and find them. How we are paid is on the privacy page.

Registered CPA firms in Seattle

Alongside the 2,364 individually licensed CPAs, the Board lists 209 registered CPA firms with a Seattle 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.

30 of them — 14.4% — 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 2,364 CPAs on the record in Seattle

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

By renewal cohort in Seattle

• Seattle CPAs renewing by 30 April 2027 — 843
• Seattle CPAs renewing by 30 April 2028 — 868
• Seattle CPAs renewing by 30 April 2029 — 653

Towns of a similar size for the profession

• Bellevue 765
• Spokane 586
• Kirkland 405
• Bothell 332
• Renton 302
• Vancouver 290
• Tacoma 273
• Sammamish 269
• Redmond 264
• Bellingham 242
• Edmonds 231
• Issaquah 213
• Lynnwood 208

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.