diff --git a/torchx/schedulers/slurm_scheduler.py b/torchx/schedulers/slurm_scheduler.py
index 0b3232bda..396179559 100644
--- a/torchx/schedulers/slurm_scheduler.py
+++ b/torchx/schedulers/slurm_scheduler.py
@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ def _should_use_gpus_per_node_from_version() -> bool:
     "comment",
     "mail-user",
     "mail-type",
+    "account",
 }
 SBATCH_GROUP_OPTIONS = {
     "partition",
@@ -159,6 +160,7 @@ def _apply_app_id_env(s: str) -> str:
 SlurmOpts = TypedDict(
     "SlurmOpts",
     {
+        "account": Optional[str],
         "partition": str,
         "time": str,
         "comment": Optional[str],
@@ -404,6 +406,12 @@ def __init__(self, session_name: str) -> None:
 
     def _run_opts(self) -> runopts:
         opts = runopts()
+        opts.add(
+            "account",
+            type_=str,
+            help="The account to use for the slurm job.",
+            default=None,
+        )
         opts.add(
             "partition",
             type_=str,
diff --git a/torchx/schedulers/test/aws_batch_scheduler_test.py b/torchx/schedulers/test/aws_batch_scheduler_test.py
index 040a3f3c7..de63f450f 100644
--- a/torchx/schedulers/test/aws_batch_scheduler_test.py
+++ b/torchx/schedulers/test/aws_batch_scheduler_test.py
@@ -159,7 +159,6 @@ def test_submit_dryrun_tags(self, _) -> None:
     def test_submit_dryrun_job_role_arn(self) -> None:
         cfg = AWSBatchOpts({"queue": "ignored_in_test", "job_role_arn": "fizzbuzz"})
         info = create_scheduler("test").submit_dryrun(_test_app(), cfg)
-        # pyre-ignore[16]
         node_groups = info.request.job_def["nodeProperties"]["nodeRangeProperties"]
         self.assertEqual(1, len(node_groups))
         self.assertEqual(cfg["job_role_arn"], node_groups[0]["container"]["jobRoleArn"])
@@ -169,7 +168,6 @@ def test_submit_dryrun_execution_role_arn(self) -> None:
             {"queue": "ignored_in_test", "execution_role_arn": "veryexecutive"}
         )
         info = create_scheduler("test").submit_dryrun(_test_app(), cfg)
-        # pyre-ignore[16]
         node_groups = info.request.job_def["nodeProperties"]["nodeRangeProperties"]
         self.assertEqual(1, len(node_groups))
         self.assertEqual(
@@ -179,7 +177,6 @@ def test_submit_dryrun_execution_role_arn(self) -> None:
     def test_submit_dryrun_privileged(self) -> None:
         cfg = AWSBatchOpts({"queue": "ignored_in_test", "privileged": True})
         info = create_scheduler("test").submit_dryrun(_test_app(), cfg)
-        # pyre-ignore[16]
         node_groups = info.request.job_def["nodeProperties"]["nodeRangeProperties"]
         self.assertEqual(1, len(node_groups))
         self.assertTrue(node_groups[0]["container"]["privileged"])
@@ -189,7 +186,6 @@ def test_submit_dryrun_instance_type_multinode(self) -> None:
         resource = specs.named_resources_aws.aws_p3dn_24xlarge()
         app = _test_app(num_replicas=2, resource=resource)
         info = create_scheduler("test").submit_dryrun(app, cfg)
-        # pyre-ignore[16]
         node_groups = info.request.job_def["nodeProperties"]["nodeRangeProperties"]
         self.assertEqual(1, len(node_groups))
         self.assertEqual(
@@ -202,7 +198,6 @@ def test_submit_dryrun_instance_type_singlenode(self) -> None:
         resource = specs.named_resources_aws.aws_p3dn_24xlarge()
         app = _test_app(num_replicas=1, resource=resource)
         info = create_scheduler("test").submit_dryrun(app, cfg)
-        # pyre-ignore[16]
         node_groups = info.request.job_def["nodeProperties"]["nodeRangeProperties"]
         self.assertEqual(1, len(node_groups))
         self.assertTrue("instanceType" in node_groups[0]["container"])
@@ -212,7 +207,6 @@ def test_submit_dryrun_no_instance_type_non_aws(self) -> None:
         resource = specs.named_resources_aws.aws_p3dn_24xlarge()
         app = _test_app(num_replicas=2)
         info = create_scheduler("test").submit_dryrun(app, cfg)
-        # pyre-ignore[16]
         node_groups = info.request.job_def["nodeProperties"]["nodeRangeProperties"]
         self.assertEqual(1, len(node_groups))
         self.assertTrue("instanceType" not in node_groups[0]["container"])
diff --git a/torchx/schedulers/test/slurm_scheduler_test.py b/torchx/schedulers/test/slurm_scheduler_test.py
index 16e457b39..c931dfba3 100644
--- a/torchx/schedulers/test/slurm_scheduler_test.py
+++ b/torchx/schedulers/test/slurm_scheduler_test.py
@@ -696,6 +696,24 @@ def test_dryrun_comment(self, mock_version: MagicMock) -> None:
             info.request.cmd,
         )
 
+    @patch(
+        "torchx.schedulers.slurm_scheduler.version",
+        return_value=SLURM_VERSION_24_5,
+    )
+    def test_account(self, mock_version: MagicMock) -> None:
+        scheduler = create_scheduler("foo")
+        app = simple_app()
+        info = scheduler.submit_dryrun(
+            app,
+            cfg={
+                "account": "foobar",
+            },
+        )
+        self.assertIn(
+            "--account=foobar",
+            info.request.cmd,
+        )
+
     @patch(
         "torchx.schedulers.slurm_scheduler.version",
         return_value=SLURM_VERSION_24_5,