Louisville, KY / Bookkeeping & CAS
Bookkeeping and CAS firms · Louisville
Offshore bookkeeping support, trained for your firm.
For Louisville-area accounting firms: your senior bookkeepers shouldn’t be chasing documents, cleaning inboxes or prepping every close by hand. We train Filipino bookkeeping staff to take that load off your team, and we manage them for you.
Louisville · May 2025 BLS
$23.07 an hour
Median wage for bookkeeping, accounting and auditing clerks in the Louisville metro, 5% below the national median of $24.36. Most earn between $18.85 and $27.65. 7,730 people work in this occupation across the metro.
Bookkeeping and CAS firms in Louisville.
The Louisville metro had 788 accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll firms in 2024, 56 for every 100,000 residents, which ranks 14th of the 50 largest US metros. It’s a growing market, up 7.4% on 2023. More firms competing for the same local hires tends to push wages up. Jobs in this occupation are 1.28 times as concentrated here as nationally.
BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages, private sector. BLS doesn’t publish employment for this industry in Louisville, to protect individual firms’ data.
A full-time seat in Louisville.
Louisville has the 47th highest median wage for bookkeeping, accounting and auditing clerks among the 50 largest US metros. Even at the top of our draft range, a managed Molave role costs about 20% less per hour than a local hire with employer costs. The gap is narrower here than in coastal metros, so the case rests as much on training, management and cover as on price.
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, Louisville metropolitan area. Employer costs of about 30% rounded from BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation. Both monthly figures use 160 hours. Molave figures are draft ranges.
Nearby metros
How Louisville compares.
Of these metros, Louisville pays the least for this work, $5.52 an hour below Hartford at the median. Local hiring is cheaper here, so the case for Molave rests more on training, management and cover.
| Metro | Median wage | Middle 50% earn | Firms (2024) | Change on 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louisville, KY | $23.07 | $18.85–$27.65 | 788 | +7.4% |
| Richmond, VA | $24.71 | $21.64–$29.29 | 580 | −1.9% |
| Raleigh, NC | $24.13 | $20.89–$28.73 | 910 | +5.6% |
| Grand Rapids, MI | $23.34 | $21.15–$28.07 | 330 | −3.8% |
| Hartford, CT | $28.59 | $23.45–$32.77 | 584 | +1.6% |
Wages: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, bookkeeping, accounting and auditing clerks; “middle 50%” is the 25th to 75th percentile hourly wage. Firm counts: BLS QCEW, 2024.
Roles we train for Louisville accounting firms.
Each role is trained on your tools and SOPs before day one. Full role descriptions →
Workflows
Work we take off your plate.
- Month-end close prep and checklist tracking
- Weekly document requests and follow-up
- Bank and credit card reconciliation prep
- AP runs and AR collection reminders
- Cleanup and catch-up projects
Working your hours
Louisville hours, covered.
Louisville questions
Straight answers, with local numbers.
How many accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll firms are in Louisville?
788 in 2024, according to the BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, +7.4% on 2023.
What does a local hire cost Louisville accounting firms?
The median wage for bookkeeping, accounting and auditing clerks in the Louisville metro is $23.07 an hour (May 2025). Most earn between $18.85 and $27.65. With payroll taxes and benefits, a full-time median hire costs about $4,799 a month at 160 hours. A managed Molave role costs $2,240–$3,840 a month at the same hours.
Can Molave staff work Louisville hours?
Yes. Staff work Louisville business hours. A 9am–5pm day in Louisville is 9pm–5am in Manila during US daylight saving time and 10pm–6am in winter, a night shift that’s standard in the Filipino outsourcing industry.
Book a staffing call
Start with one role for your Louisville firm.
Tell us what’s stuck. We’ll come back with the role, the person and the price, with no upfront recruiting fee.