Financial Examiners in Vermont
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$58,549
after federal, FICA and Vermont tax
Tax takes
$16,131
21.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$60,588
Vermont costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Vermont — 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
$74,680
Kept after tax
$58,549
Worth in national money
$60,588
State rank
42
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Vermont is among the lower-paying states for financial examiners. The middle earner takes $74,680, ranking 42 of 49 states — about 20.69% below the national middle. Costs here are often lower too, which the figures further down account for.
- Against other work in Vermont, this sits in the middle: 146 of 453 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $74,680 you keep $58,549 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $60,588 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $82,550, since top earners drag the number up.
- Vermont ranks 42 of 49 for financial examiners, with a median of $74,680 — about 20.69% below the national figure. A nominal shortfall is not by itself a real one: lower-paying states frequently carry lower tax and lower price levels, and the adjusted figures below are where that is settled rather than assumed.
- Financial examiners ranks 146 of 453 occupations in Vermont by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Retained pay in Vermont is $58,549 after the full tax stack, from $74,680. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $60,588 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $82,550 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Financial Examiners
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $64,090 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $74,680 |
| Top tenth earn over | $113,380 |
| This salary | $74,680 |
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 Vermont | $58,549 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $61,367 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,564 |
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 | $70,674 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,541 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Vermont earn less than $74,680. The published range is $64,090 up to $113,380, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $58,549 take-home in Vermont comes from $74,680. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 146 of 453.
- Two cautions on $60,588, the adjusted value of that $74,680 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Vermont. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 146 of 453 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for financial examiners in Vermont the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $64,090 to $113,380. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $58,549, from $74,680, assumes a single Vermont filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 146 of 453 locally, and the state ranks 42 of 49 for it.
- This $60,588 adjusted figure, worked from $74,680, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 146 of 453 in the state. The occupation ranks 146 of 453 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $82,550 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $64,090 at the bottom tenth to $113,380 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Vermont is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $60,588 in national terms.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Vermont then takes its own share, leaving $58,549.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 49 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 Vermont is $82,550. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($64,090 to $113,380) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Vermont rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Vermont's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $60,588 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $58,549 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Vermont income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.