Financial Examiners in Virginia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$76,813
after federal, FICA and Virginia tax
Tax takes
$27,247
26.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$76,242
Virginia costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Virginia — 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
$104,060
Kept after tax
$76,813
Worth in national money
$76,242
State rank
9
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for financial examiners is strong here. Virginia's middle earner gets $104,060, putting the state 9 of 49 — about 10.51% ahead of the national figure.
- Within Virginia this is well-paid work. Of 489 occupations with published figures in the state, financial examiners ranks 69 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $104,060 the take-home is $76,813, which is worth about $76,242 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $114,590, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For financial examiners, Virginia sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $104,060, ranking 9 of 49 and running about 10.51% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Ranked against every occupation Virginia publishes a median for, financial examiners sits 69 of 489 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- Virginia's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for financial examiners on its $104,060 median: $76,813 retained after tax becomes $76,242 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $114,590 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Financial Examiners
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $62,310 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $104,060 |
| Top tenth earn over | $176,290 |
| This salary | $104,060 |
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 Virginia | $76,813 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $82,036 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$8,179 |
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 | $96,636 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$11,297 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of financial examiners in Virginia earn under $104,060 and half over. The published range runs $62,310 at the tenth percentile to $176,290 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Virginia the take-home figure of $76,813, from $104,060, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 69 of 489 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $76,242, the adjusted value of that $104,060 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Virginia. 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 69 of 489 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for financial examiners in Virginia, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $62,310 to $176,290; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Take-home for Virginia is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $76,813 from $104,060. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 69 of 489 locally.
- This $76,242 adjusted figure, worked from $104,060, 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 69 of 489 in the state. The occupation ranks 69 of 489 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 $114,590 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $62,310 and the top tenth $176,290 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Virginia costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $76,242 rather than its face figure.
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; Virginia then takes its own share, leaving $76,813.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release 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 Virginia is $114,590. 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 ($62,310) and the ninetieth ($176,290) 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?
Virginia's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $76,242 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $76,813 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Virginia 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.