Using JSON object using Angular and rest service

Question

I have this service method

public object Get(EmployeeAccountsRequest request)
{
    var list=userList.ToList();
    var jsonSerialiser = new JavaScriptSerializer();
    var json = jsonSerialiser.Serialize(list);
    return json;
}

Definition of EmployeeAccountRequest request class

[Route("/employeeaccount", "GET")]
public class AllUserAccountsRequest : IReturn<object>
{
    public int projectNumber{ get; set; }
    public int class{ get; set; }
}

which returns following JSON object.

[{"name": "Moroni", "allowance": 550,  "paid": true},
{"name": "Tiancum", "allowance": 53,  "paid": false},
{"name": "Jacob", "allowance": 27,  "paid": false}]

Resource to get this data from service is as following:

  angular.module('accService', ['ngResource']).factory('EmployeeAccount', function($resource) {
    return $resource('/api/employeeaccount/:id', {}, {
      get: {
        method: 'GET',
      },      
      query: {
        method: 'GET',
      },
      update: {
        method: 'PUT'
      },
    });
  });

And trying to receive this value in controller

  var app = angular.module('EmployeeApp');
  app.controller('EmployeeAccountsController', function($scope, $http, EmployeeAccount) {


  console.log(EmployeeAccount.query())
}

But i am not receiving the JSON object here. The above setup works fine if i return a list of array from my method.

So the question becomes why would a list of array is received properly and not a simple JSON object. Please let me know, if more information is needed.