Expert insights on accounting and finance staffing, including fractional CFO services, controller hiring, AP/AR team building, and financial talent acquisition strategies for growing businesses.
A NetSuite functional consultant costs about $110K to $175K for a mid-to-senior hire, or roughly $95 to $170 an hour on contract. You are paying for business-process judgment and requirements skill, not SuiteScript code. Here is the part nobody puts in the job posting. The functional consultant is the person who decides what NetSuite should … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President, KORE1 Hiring an accounting manager in 2026 typically costs $75,000 to $160,000 depending on team size and audit exposure, with most searches wrapping in four to eight weeks. The dollar figure is rarely what trips companies up. Deciding whether the seat is genuinely a management job, and not … Read more
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner at KORE1 A NetSuite developer in 2026 runs $115,000 to $145,000 at mid-level and $145,000 to $185,000 for a senior who can own the integration layer, with most searches closing in four to eight weeks. The salary is the part that budgets neatly. The part that doesn’t is … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President, KORE1 NetSuite administrators in the U.S. make a median base of about $111,000 in 2026. The middle of the market runs roughly $85,000 to $140,000, and a certified admin holding together a multi-subsidiary OneWorld instance clears $150,000 without much argument. That median hides something specific, though, and it … Read more
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner at KORE1 A NetSuite administrator in 2026 costs roughly $85,000 to $115,000 at mid-level and $115,000 to $150,000 for a senior hire who can run the system alone, with most searches closing in three to six weeks. Those numbers are not what makes this hire go sideways. What … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success at KORE1 The best NetSuite administrator interview questions test whether a candidate can run an instance somebody else built, through two forced upgrades a year, while every department asks for one more custom field. That is the job. It is not a smaller version of the implementation consultant … Read more
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner at KORE1 Hiring a controller in 2026 means budgeting roughly $120,000 to $210,000, planning a six-to-ten-week search, and deciding first whether the seat calls for a hands-on close manager or a strategic finance leader. The pay band is not the hard part. Neither is finding résumés. What kills … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President at KORE1 A CFO earns $250,000 to $450,000 in base salary in 2026 at most private and mid-market companies, with total compensation of $400,000 to $900,000 once bonus and equity stack, and far higher at public companies. The base reads simple enough. The total does not. Two CFOs … Read more
Two people who both write “SAP consultant” at the top of a resume can be worth $90,000 apart, and the resume rarely tells you which one is sitting across the table. The gap hides in the module, in whether the work is functional or technical, and in whether the person has carried a live S/4HANA … Read more
To hire a CFO in 2026, first confirm you actually need a full-time one, then set the comp band by company stage, run a focused 6 to 12-week search, and interview hard for the parts of the job that break. Expect $150K to $300K base at a small company and $300K to $450K-plus at mid-market … Read more
