Financial and Investment Analysts in Washington
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$84,252
after federal, FICA and Washington tax
Tax takes
$22,958
21.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$77,607
Washington costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Washington — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$107,210
Kept after tax
$84,252
Worth in national money
$77,607
State rank
8
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Washington is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $107,210, which ranks 8 of 51 states with published figures. That is about 4.35% above the national middle.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 493 occupations Washington reports, this job comes in at 89 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $107,210, tax leaves $84,252 — and because Washington is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $77,607 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $117,650, since top earners drag the number up.
- Washington ranks 8 of 51 states publishing a median for financial and investment analysts, at $107,210 — about 4.35% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Financial and investment analysts ranks 89 of 493 occupations by median in Washington, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- After tax, $84,252 remains from the Washington median of $107,210 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $77,607 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $117,650 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Financial and Investment Analysts
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $64,810 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $107,210 |
| Top tenth earn over | $167,790 |
| This salary | $107,210 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Washington | $84,252 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $84,252 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$9,094 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $107,210 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$12,562 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $107,210 as a midpoint for Washington, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $64,810 and the ninetieth is $167,790 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Washington's $84,252, worked from $107,210. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 89 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Washington, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $77,607, the adjusted value of that $107,210 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 89 of 493 in the state.
- The Washington median of $107,210 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $64,810 to $167,790. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Washington take-home of $84,252, on $107,210 for work ranking 89 of 493 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 89 of 493 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Washington, so $77,607 — the adjusted value of that $107,210 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 89 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $117,650, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $64,810, the highest tenth $167,790, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $77,607 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $84,252 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like one.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Washington is $117,650. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($64,810) and the ninetieth ($167,790) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Washington's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $77,607 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Washington levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $84,252 reflects the federal layer and FICA alone. Federal income tax and FICA are unchanged; states without a wage income tax generally recover revenue through consumption and property bases instead.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.