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The pages of this site are free and will stay free — a public fact belongs to nobody. What is sold is the work of compiling it.
The pages of this site are free and will stay free : an official fact belongs to no one. What is sold here is the compilation work — extracting the Washington CPA register, reconciling it, dating it, and delivering it in a usable form.
What is worth buying is the flow, not the stock
A published register is a state at one instant. What it does not publish is the list of what has just changed : every record carries its date, but nowhere can you ask for « everything that moved since 2017-10-12 ». To get it you have to re-read the whole file and diff it — every month.
About 206 licences a month are recorded. That is the rate at which a snapshot ages, and it is why the subscription is listed first and the snapshot last.
And there is a second kind of drift here that a snapshot cannot capture at all: every year, about a third of the register moves through a renewal. Licences lapse in bulk after each 30 April. A file bought in March describes a different profession from the same file in May.
What is in it
Every field below is measured on the delivered rows, not estimated. A ⚠️ marks a column the source does not contain — that is the part you cannot get for free by downloading the file yourself.
| Field | Description | Filled |
|---|---|---|
licence_number | The licence number, unique across the register | 100.0 % |
name | Name as the Board holds it | 100.0 % |
status | The Board's own status wording, verbatim | 100.0 % |
status_plain | ⚠️ The same status in one readable phrase, mapped from the Board's twelve wordings | 100.0 % |
in_practice | ⚠️ 1 where the status is 'Licensed to practice public accounting', 0 otherwise — the distinction everything else turns on | 100.0 % |
city | ⚠️ Town on the record, case-normalised (the source writes SEATTLE and Seattle for the same place) | 98.9 % |
state | State on the record — absent for a quarter of the register, and we do not fill it in | 74.7 % |
first_issued | ⚠️ ISO date, normalised from the source timestamp | 100.0 % |
expires | ⚠️ ISO date, normalised | 97.2 % |
renewal_cohort | ⚠️ The three-year cohort, extracted for alerting | 97.2 % |
board_order_url | Link to the Board's signed order where one is published (2020 onwards only) | 0.2 % |
The 6 fields marked ⚠️ do not exist in the source : we add them — a join, a normalisation, or a reconstructed history. That is the part a buyer cannot reproduce by downloading the official file.
What it costs
- Change feed — USD 300 / monthOr USD 3 000 a year. At every collection, what came in, went out or changed since the previous one. This is the part that does not age.
- One slice — USD 90 / monthThe feed restricted to a single county or state, for those who do not need the rest.
- Full snapshot — USD 4 000, onceThe state of the register on the day of delivery, every field included. Listed last on purpose : a snapshot ages.
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Order
Tell us what you need : we reply with a sample, the field dictionary, and an invoice. No payment is taken on this site — an order opens a conversation.
Prices in USD, before any applicable tax. Delivered as CSV and Parquet, by download link. Every request is answered by hand.
Working from your own list instead of buying the set? That is Pro access, priced on volume.