Financial Risk Specialists Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Financial Risk Specialists offer sit among all 56,320 workers doing this job? The survey top-codes at $239,200+ and withholds unreliable cells, shown as n/p in the table.

Employment and concentration

May 2024 employment stood at 56,320, or 0.04% of the U.S. total. New York leads the state table with 10,980 jobs; the top three states sum to 35.3% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: Delaware posts a location quotient of 7.33, so a worker there is far more likely to meet a colleague in this field than the national pattern suggests.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $80,280 at the 25th percentile, $106,000 at the middle, $145,020 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $120,040, a ratio of 2.9 to 1. Where a specific job offer lands on that range says more about the role's level than the occupation's headline median does.

Pay by state

New York posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $138,330, and New York the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Financial Risk Specialists stands number 370 by employment and number 93 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 35% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.5% of the group's 10,351,430 jobs. In 15 of the 49 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $106,000, 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 11,340 jobs, 20.1% 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, Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $97,100 a year, against $157,880 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. 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

The median Financial Risk Specialists paycheck, gross, is $4,077 every two weeks on an annual $106,000, which is $8,833 a month and $2,038 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($80,280) to the 75th ($145,020) is worth $64,740 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Gross is a starting point, not a budget: the paycheck calculator nets it down by state, an offer comparison lives in the salary calculator, and the raise vs inflation calculator separates a real raise from a nominal one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $116,600 would sit between the median ($106,000) and the 75th percentile ($145,020), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $80,280, is $25,720 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

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