Accountant ads in Vancouver: C$8.27 a click

What a booked return costs in clicks

There is a sourced lead rate for accountant (2.64% of clicks call or fill a form; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Finance & Insurance) but no sourced booking rate, so this page prints no cost per booked return. Put in your own booking rate in the planner below to see it.

Cost per booked return in Vancouver is the click price divided by the lead rate times the booking rate. The rates are national benchmarks, not Vancouver figures; the planner below starts from them and you can change both.

Each row uses the same two rates as the sentence above, so the order follows click price.

Where the accountant searches are in Vancouver

Searches split by what the searcher typed. The two tags rank the groups on this page by click price; they are rankings, not verdicts.

General searches are the largest share of counted search volume in Vancouver, at 52.3%.

In Vancouver, specific jobs has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at C$17.85 a click.

Plan a month of accountant ads in Vancouver

Put in your own value per return and margin. The call and booking rates start at the benchmarks named under each box; change them to your own.

Every accountant keyword tracked in Vancouver

Monthly searches are the average of the last 12 months. Related keywords are shown for context and are not counted in any total on this page.

The most-searched accountant keywords in Vancouver are “accountant” (664 searches a month at C$8.61 a click), “accountant near me” (400 searches a month at C$3.26 a click), and “tax accountant” (119 searches a month at C$12.48 a click).

In Vancouver, “small business accountant” is the keyword furthest from the country median: C$29.06 a click, 239.9% above the C$8.55 median click price for accountant across this country's tracked cities.

In Vancouver, “tax return accountant” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 7 searches a month.

In Vancouver, 5 of the 7 counted accountant keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

How Vancouver compares in Canada

Over the 48 months tracked, accountants searches in Vancouver peaked in March 2025 at 3,220 and were lowest in August 2026 at 840. Vancouver's single latest tracked month is down 20.0% on the same month a year ago and down 34.4% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In Vancouver, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "tax return accountant", down 65.2%.

• Vancouver is 6th of 13 Canada cities by click price, mid-table.
• Vancouver is 4th of 13 Canada cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
• Vancouver is 2nd of 2 British Columbia cities by click price, the highest.
• Vancouver is 1st of 2 British Columbia cities by monthly searches, the highest.
• Vancouver logs 41.2 searches a month for every 100,000 people, fewer than the 100.4 logged by Victoria, the nearest-ranked city in the same province.
• Vancouver's 41.2 searches a month per 100,000 people is below the country-wide rate of 57.5 for this service.
• Vancouver's median accountant click price of C$8.27 is 3.3% below the country median of C$8.55.
• Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 20.5% on the 12 months before.
• In Vancouver, searches peak in March, about 90.8% above the monthly average, and are lowest in December.

Accountant businesses in Vancouver

Statistics Canada does not publish a business count for accountants in Vancouver at this level, so this page shows none. It publishes counts for Vancouver only for broader industry groups, which mix accountants with other businesses. That is a finding about the published statistics, not about how many accountants work here.

Population: 3,088,036 (Vancouver (CMA), British Columbia). Source: Statistics Canada table 17-10-0148-01, population estimates by CMA/CA, July 1 vintage.

Business counts are never compared across countries on this site: each country's statistics agency counts a different set of businesses.

Accountant click prices in 6 countries

Canada is 2nd of 6 countries by median accountant click price (lowest first), all in US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.

Medians across each country's tracked cities, same pull month. Each country uses its own keyword set and its own name for the service. Only click prices and searches are compared across borders; business counts are not.

Questions people ask about accountant ads in Vancouver

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Data and sources

Search data pulled 13 October 2026. Google Keyword Planner estimates via DataForSEO, not what you will pay at auction; your own Google Ads account shows your real price.