Financial Risk Specialists in Louisiana
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$47,770
after federal, FICA and Louisiana tax
Tax takes
$10,670
18.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$54,072
Louisiana costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Louisiana — 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
$58,440
Kept after tax
$47,770
Worth in national money
$54,072
State rank
50
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Louisiana is among the lower-paying states for financial risk specialists. The middle earner takes $58,440, ranking 50 of 50 states — about 50.19% below the national middle. Costs here are often lower too, which the figures further down account for.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 484 occupations Louisiana reports figures for, this is number 212.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $58,440 you keep $47,770 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $54,072 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $62,350, since top earners drag the number up.
- Louisiana ranks 50 of 50 for financial risk specialists, with a median of $58,440 — about 50.19% 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.
- In Louisiana's occupational distribution, financial risk specialists sits at 212 of 484 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Retained pay in Louisiana is $47,770 after the full tax stack, from $58,440. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $54,072 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $62,350 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Financial Risk Specialists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $48,660 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $58,440 |
| Top tenth earn over | $82,760 |
| This salary | $58,440 |
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 Louisiana | $47,770 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $49,137 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,507 |
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 | $56,739 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$4,241 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 88 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Louisiana earn less than $58,440. The published range is $48,660 up to $82,760, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $47,770 take-home in Louisiana comes from $58,440. 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 212 of 484.
- Two cautions on $54,072, the adjusted value of that $58,440 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Louisiana. 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 212 of 484 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for financial risk specialists in Louisiana the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $48,660 to $82,760. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $47,770, from $58,440, assumes a single Louisiana 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 212 of 484 locally, and the state ranks 50 of 50 for it.
- This $54,072 adjusted figure, worked from $58,440, 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 212 of 484 in the state. The occupation ranks 212 of 484 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 $62,350 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 $48,660 at the bottom tenth to $82,760 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Louisiana sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $54,072 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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; Louisiana then takes its own share, leaving $47,770.
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 Louisiana is $62,350. 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 ($48,660 to $82,760) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Louisiana rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Louisiana'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 $54,072 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 $47,770 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Louisiana 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.