Financial and Investment Analysts Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Read the ladder vertically: each row is the wage of the Financial and Investment Analysts worker at that point in the distribution, so $132,050 at the 75th percentile means three quarters of the occupation earns less. Figures BLS cannot publish appear as n/p, and its top code prints as $239,200+.

Employment and concentration

The occupation employed 340,580 people in May 2024, 0.22% of every job BLS counted. New York is the largest employer at 47,130 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 33.7% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Delaware, whose location quotient of 2.99 says this work is 2.99 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

One in ten workers in this field earns $62,410 or less, and one in ten earns $180,550 or more, so the top-to-bottom ratio is 2.9 to 1 and the annual gap is $118,140. The mean ($116,490) versus median ($101,350) comparison shows a right-skewed ladder where senior and specialist roles lift the average in this occupation.

Pay by state

Every state with a publishable estimate is in this table, 51 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is Wyoming at $213,940; the jobs leader is New York:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Financial and Investment Analysts stands number 108 by employment and number 116 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Business and Financial Operations Occupations, the group median wage is $78,420 across 32 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 29% more than its group median, and it supplies 3.3% of the group's 10,351,430 jobs. In 13 of the 50 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $101,350, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 49,940 jobs, 14.7% of the national total. Employment rank and pay rank are different lists: the second table re-sorts metros with at least 500 jobs in this occupation by mean pay, the floor keeping a handful of workers from posing as a market.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $64,180 a year, against $159,130 in Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT. That is the metro effect in one line: identical job title, materially different pay, decided mostly by which labor market the job sits in.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

Budget arithmetic on the median: $8,446 a month before tax, $3,898 biweekly, $1,949 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($78,300) to the 75th ($132,050) is worth $53,750 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. To turn any of these gross figures into spendable money, run them through the paycheck calculator; to weigh an offer against your current role, use the salary calculator; to test a raise against prices, the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $111,485 would sit between the median ($101,350) and the 75th percentile ($132,050), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $78,300, is $23,050 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Business and Financial Operations Occupations

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