Financial Risk Specialists in Georgia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$75,161
after federal, FICA and Georgia tax
Tax takes
$25,409
25.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$77,727
Georgia costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Georgia — 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
$100,570
Kept after tax
$75,161
Worth in national money
$77,727
State rank
26
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Georgia pays financial risk specialists around $100,570 at the midpoint, 26 of 50 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 492 occupations Georgia reports, financial risk specialists comes in at 63 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Georgia is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $100,570 the take-home is $75,161; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $77,727 would nationally. The average comes to $107,100, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For financial risk specialists the Georgia median is $100,570, ranking 26 of 50 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Financial risk specialists ranks 63 of 492 occupations by median in Georgia, 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.
- Post-tax income for financial risk specialists in Georgia, on $100,570, is $75,161 — equivalent to $77,727 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $107,100 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Financial Risk Specialists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $38,550 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $100,570 |
| Top tenth earn over | $167,790 |
| This salary | $100,570 |
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 Georgia | $75,161 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $79,581 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,167 |
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 | $94,288 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,756 |
| 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 Georgia earn less than $100,570. The published range is $38,550 up to $167,790, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Georgia's $75,161, worked from $100,570. 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 63 of 492.
- One number stands for prices across all of Georgia, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $77,727, the adjusted value of that $100,570 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 63 of 492 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for financial risk specialists in Georgia the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $38,550 to $167,790. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Georgia take-home of $75,161, on $100,570 for work ranking 63 of 492 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 63 of 492 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Georgia, so $77,727 — the adjusted value of that $100,570 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 63 of 492 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $107,100, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $38,550 at the bottom tenth to $167,790 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $77,727.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Georgia adds its own income tax on top — which is why $75,161 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 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 Georgia is $107,100. 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 ($38,550) 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.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Georgia'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 $77,727 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 $75,161 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Georgia 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.