Salary Guides
2026 Controller Salary Guide: Central Massachusetts
What a controller actually earns in Worcester and Central Massachusetts in 2026 — by percentile, by company size, and what moves someone who is not looking.
September 7, 2026
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Hiring and career advice for New England accounting, finance and HR
Whether you are hiring or looking: salary guides, hiring trends and career advice, written by the recruiters doing the placements rather than by a content agency. If a number appears here it came from a search we ran, not from a national survey.
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Company News
Brennan Staffing Group Expands with New HR Division to Meet Rising Demand in Boston & Cambridge
A dedicated Human Resources Placement Division, after four years of placing HR professionals across Greater Boston and Massachusetts.
February 27, 2025
If you are hiring
Hiring Trends
When your own person takes a counter-offer
Matching the number keeps them for a while. It also tells the rest of your team how to get a raise, and it rarely fixes the reason they…
September 10, 2026
Hiring Trends
Why your controller search has stalled (it is probably not the market)
When a finance search drags past three months, the cause is almost never a shortage of candidates. Here are the four reasons we actually see.
September 7, 2026
Hiring Trends
Direct Hire vs. Contract vs. Temp-to-Perm: Which Hiring Option Is Right for Your Business?
Key takeaways See how Brennan runs each type of search → Finding the right employee is about more than filling an open position; it’s about choosing…
July 16, 2026
Hiring Trends
How to Recruit Accounting and Finance Professionals: A Guide to Hiring Top Talent
Key takeaways Accounting and finance staffing → In today’s competitive hiring market, recruiting skilled accounting and finance professionals has become increasingly challenging. With unemployment in many…
July 14, 2026
If you are looking
Career Advice
What to ask a recruiter before you let them send your resume anywhere
Your resume is the one thing you cannot get back once it has been sent. Five questions that tell you quickly whether somebody is worth working with.
September 10, 2026
Career Advice
What a counter-offer usually means
Your employer has just discovered what you are worth on the open market. That is useful information — for them.
September 9, 2026
Career Advice
Should You Remove Your Graduation Year from Your Resume? Not So Fast!
Key takeaways Send us your resume for a second opinion → There’s been a lot of buzz lately about whether job seekers should remove their graduation…
February 24, 2025
What we write about
Three things, and nothing else. We are recruiters, not publishers — if we have not seen it in a search we do not have an opinion worth reading.
Salary guides
What roles actually pay in this region, by title and by area — not a national average with a cost-of-living multiplier applied to it. Updated from the offers we see accepted and declined.
Hiring trends
What is moving in New England accounting and finance hiring: where the shortages are, what is taking longer to fill than it did last year, and what employers are conceding on to close.
Career advice
Practical things for people who are looking, including the parts nobody tells you: what a counter-offer usually means, how to leave well, and when a title bump is worth less than it sounds.
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