Rick Telberg of CPA Trendlines has an interesting article about a Harris interactive poll that says that only 11% of adults consider accountants to have great prestige.
The poll was conducted over the telephone and participants were asked by the pollers to answer this question:
I am going to read off a number of different occupations. For each, would you tell me if you feel it is an occupation of very great prestige, considerable prestige, some prestige or hardly any prestige at all?
Here are the jobs at the top and bottom of the list:
Most Prestigious Occupations
The occupations at the top of the list are:
- Firefighter (62% say “very great prestige”)
- Scientist (57%)
- Doctor (56%)
- Nurse (54%)
- Teacher (51%)
- Military officer (51%).
Least Prestigious Occupations
Looking at the other side of the list, only 15% or fewer adults regard the following occupations as having very great prestige:
- Real estate agent/broker (5%)
- Accountant (11%)
- Stock broker (13%)
- Actor (15%)
Lawyers, in case you were wondering, came in at 26%, a 2% increase from last year.
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