Also called: Tax Auditor, Field Examiner
Audits the tax returns of businesses and wealthy individuals to make sure they paid what they owe.
Revenue agents visit companies, dig into their financial records, and find where taxes were underpaid, sometimes in multimillion-dollar cases. They need strong accounting skills and a bit of detective instinct.
Federal General Schedule (GS) pay scale.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's with at least 30 accounting credits.
Ways in: 4-year college, On-the-job training. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Accounting, Finance, Business Administration.
Growing slowly. Approximate; IRS staffing has been cut and fluctuates.
Medium risk for 10 years. AI selects audits and flags issues in returns; examining records and arguing positions with companies stay human.
Classes: Accounting, AP Macroeconomics, Business math.
Official data: O*NET occupation 13-2081.
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