Financial Examiners Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

A percentile marks a point in this occupation's pay distribution: the worker one quarter of the way up the Financial Examiners ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $66,800. BLS top-codes very high wages ($239,200+ a year, $115.00+ an hour) and marks estimates it cannot publish as n/p.

Employment and concentration

With 62,830 jobs nationally, Financial Examiners make up 0.04% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: New York alone holds 10,580 of those jobs, the top three states hold 33.5%, and the deepest concentration sits in New York (location quotient 2.72, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

One in ten workers in this field earns $53,420 or less, and one in ten earns $171,540 or more, so the top-to-bottom ratio is 3.2 to 1 and the annual gap is $118,120. The mean ($103,650) versus median ($90,400) comparison shows a right-skewed ladder where senior and specialist roles lift the average in this occupation.

Pay by state

The state spread for Financial Examiners runs from the $177,550 median in District of Columbia down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in New York (10,580 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Financial Examiners stands number 349 by employment and number 163 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 15% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.6% of the group's 10,351,430 jobs. In 14 of the 50 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $90,400, 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 11,310 jobs, 18.0% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 124 metros BLS publishes for this occupation: where the jobs are, then where the money is, with the pay ranking restricted to metros employing at least 500 people in this occupation to keep small samples out of the lead.

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, $43,640 a year, against $154,200 in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. The lowest-paying large metro and the highest are both real markets for this occupation; the difference between them is the geography premium, or penalty, in cash terms.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

As a household number, $90,400 a year is $7,533 a month gross, $3,477 every two weeks, $1,738 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($66,800) to the 75th ($127,210) is worth $60,410 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. The next step from a gross figure is a net one: run the $7,533 monthly figure through the paycheck calculator applies your state's taxes, the salary calculator compares two offers in any unit, and the raise vs inflation calculator tells you whether a nominal raise is a real one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $99,440 would sit between the median ($90,400) and the 75th percentile ($127,210), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $66,800, is $23,600 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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