653,408*

As of August 28, 2025, there are 653,408 actively licensed CPAs. This statistic is derived from the Accountancy Licensee Database (ALD), the national database of CPAs made up of official Accountancy Board regulatory data that is currently aggregated from 53 of the 55 CPA licensing jurisdictions. To learn more about ALD, click here. To learn more about a certain CPA, visit CPAverify.org – a CPA lookup tool populated by official state regulatory data sent from Boards of Accountancy to the ALD.

*Does not include data from Hawaii or New Mexico and is based on license status data from the various boards that equate to an “active” license.