Financial Specialists, All Other Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Financial Specialists, All Other offer sit among all 127,450 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

BLS counted 127,450 Financial Specialists, All Other jobs in May 2024, which is 0.08% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in Delaware, where the location quotient is 5.31, meaning the occupation holds 5.31 times its national share of local jobs. California employs the most people outright, 15,360 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 27.3% of the national total.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $151,780, which is 3.3 times the $46,420 at the 10th, a difference of $105,360 annually. Because the mean wage ($93,890) sits above the median ($80,190), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

Every state with a publishable estimate is in this table, 50 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is District of Columbia at $123,450; the jobs leader is California:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Financial Specialists, All Other stands number 232 by employment and number 206 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 2% more than its group median, and it supplies 1.2% of the group's 10,351,430 jobs. In 18 of the 50 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $80,190, 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 8,690 jobs, 6.8% of the national total. The first table ranks metros by employment; the second ranks them by mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs in the occupation, because a three-person metro can top a pay table by accident.

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, $48,260 a year, against $152,750 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. A gap that size between two metro labor markets is why the same occupation title can fund two very different budgets in two different cities.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median Financial Specialists, All Other paycheck, gross, is $3,084 every two weeks on an annual $80,190, which is $6,682 a month and $1,542 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($60,140) to the 75th ($109,120) is worth $48,980 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 $88,209 would sit between the median ($80,190) and the 75th percentile ($109,120), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $60,140, is $20,050 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

Sibling occupations in Business and Financial Operations Occupations: Credit Analysts, Labor Relations Specialists, Financial Examiners, Property Appraisers and Assessors, Financial Risk Specialists, Tax Examiners and Collectors, and Revenue Agents. Medians there are computed identically, so the comparison is apples to apples; the full set lives on the Careers hub.