Financial Specialists, All Other
What the pay figures show
- The pay leader for financial specialists, all other is the District of Columbia, at $125,110. Tax does not shift it. Prices are the twist. Adjust for what a basket costs and Maine comes out ahead, worth $81,772. Worth knowing before anyone packs.
- Nominal and post-tax rankings agree for financial specialists, all other: the District of Columbia leads at $125,110 on both. Applying regional price parities separates them, promoting Maine to $81,772 in real terms. Price level, not tax, is the operative variable for this occupation — and it is the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$81,100
People doing it
132,130
Highest paid
$125,110
DC
Best off, really
$81,772
ME, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$48,460
Highest tenth
$151,490
Lowest, really
$45,263
KS
States with data
50
National average
$93,810
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
97.1%
ME, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Where you do this job matters enormously. The best state pays roughly twice what the worst does. Prices alone cannot explain a gap that size. Level everything out and the range still runs $45,263 to $81,772.
- 132,130 people do this job across the country, and the middle one earns $81,100. Common work, though not one of the giants.
- Some states are missing here. There are figures for 50 jurisdictions, averaging $81,100 in the middle. A blank means nobody published a number, not that the job pays nothing there. The District of Columbia leads the published set.
- Geographic dispersion in financial specialists, all other is unusually wide: the top state's median is approximately double the bottom's, a spread that price differentials cannot account for. The real-terms range, after tax and price deflation, still runs $45,263 to $81,772 — so the variation reflects genuine differences in local labor markets rather than a nominal illusion.
- National employment in financial specialists, all other is 132,130 — a substantial occupation, though an order of magnitude below the largest. Regional differentials here move real aggregate sums without dominating any single state's wage bill.
- Coverage for financial specialists, all other runs to 50 jurisdictions, short of the full set. The omitted states are suppressed at source; treat the spread above as the range across reported states rather than across the country.
Pay band: Financial Specialists, All Other
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $48,460 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $81,100 |
| Top tenth earn over | $151,490 |
| This salary | $81,100 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
Where these numbers come from
| BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates, time-series bulk download (oe.data.0.Current) | as of 2025-05-01 |
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Steps in Financial Specialists, All Other
The national median for this job
$81,100around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $48,460 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $81,100 |
| Top tenth | $151,490 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Financial Specialists, All Other, state by state
The national median for this job
50states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Kansas · $51,160 |
|---|---|
| Highest | District of Columbia · $125,110 |
| Spread | $73,950 |
One dot per state that publishes this job. A missing state means suppressed data, not zero pay.
Best paid, and best off
The national median for this job
| Texas pays | $71,650 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $73,733 |
Median pay against the same pay once BEA price parities are applied.
Every state, three ways
Sorted by what the money is actually worth. "Kept" is take-home for a single filer after federal, FICA and state income tax. "Really worth" divides that by the state's own price level, so a dollar in each row buys the same thing. Tap a state to put your own salary into it. States BLS does not publish for this job are absent — that means no published figure, not no work.
| State | Median pay | Kept after tax | Really worth |
|---|---|---|---|
| ME | $109,060 | $79,398 | $81,772 |
| DC | $125,110 | $89,113 | $80,424 |
| SD | $86,260 | $69,514 | $78,908 |
| IN | $92,410 | $71,144 | $77,176 |
| OH | $90,060 | $70,427 | $76,708 |
| WV | $86,200 | $66,413 | $73,979 |
| AL | $87,110 | $66,438 | $73,845 |
| NY | $107,490 | $79,148 | $73,539 |
| MD | $101,400 | $75,636 | $72,751 |
| ND | $78,260 | $63,619 | $71,827 |
| IA | $79,390 | $62,276 | $70,157 |
| NM | $80,610 | $62,916 | $69,608 |
| VA | $92,930 | $69,623 | $69,106 |
| MA | $99,970 | $74,480 | $68,812 |
| WY | $75,810 | $62,162 | $68,425 |
| NJ | $98,630 | $74,123 | $68,076 |
| OK | $76,980 | $60,022 | $67,986 |
| ID | $79,440 | $61,359 | $67,114 |
| NC | $80,900 | $63,024 | $66,948 |
| MS | $73,920 | $57,968 | $66,407 |
| CO | $87,430 | $67,198 | $66,282 |
| MT | $76,350 | $59,589 | $66,031 |
| MO | $75,800 | $59,530 | $64,874 |
| MN | $83,280 | $63,278 | $64,296 |
| SC | $76,400 | $59,828 | $64,209 |
| NH | $83,590 | $67,636 | $64,204 |
| AZ | $81,180 | $64,313 | $63,610 |
| PA | $78,610 | $61,719 | $63,301 |
| IL | $81,180 | $62,067 | $62,785 |
| UT | $76,530 | $59,263 | $62,381 |
| MI | $75,040 | $58,682 | $62,306 |
| TN | $69,240 | $57,540 | $62,196 |
| GA | $77,540 | $60,109 | $62,161 |
| AK | $77,070 | $63,049 | $61,986 |
| DE | $80,610 | $61,450 | $61,912 |
| RI | $78,990 | $61,857 | $60,996 |
| VT | $75,270 | $58,925 | $60,977 |
| TX | $71,650 | $59,236 | $60,958 |
| WA | $80,930 | $65,764 | $60,578 |
| NE | $66,290 | $53,131 | $58,789 |
| KY | $65,690 | $52,780 | $58,341 |
| OR | $83,080 | $60,557 | $57,827 |
| AR | $60,600 | $49,088 | $56,744 |
| WI | $64,420 | $51,572 | $55,396 |
| LA | $59,860 | $48,868 | $55,315 |
| CA | $80,810 | $62,257 | $55,299 |
| HI | $77,190 | $58,710 | $54,056 |
| NV | $61,930 | $51,941 | $53,558 |
| FL | $61,660 | $51,724 | $49,998 |
| KS | $51,160 | $40,721 | $45,263 |
Sources and assumptions
- Treat the numbers for financial specialists, all other as a midpoint, not a promise. The national middle is $81,100, which means half of everyone doing this work earns less than that. Where you land depends on how long you have done it, who you do it for, and which city you do it in.
- One filer, no dependants, nothing paid into a pension before tax — that is the household behind every take-home figure for financial specialists, all other. It is the simplest case on purpose, so the states can be compared against each other rather than against each other's family circumstances. City income taxes are not counted. On that household, the District of Columbia keeps the most at $89,113.
- Levelling out prices for financial specialists, all other is done with one number per state, which is a simplification. Living costs inside a state vary a lot between its cities and its countryside. The comparison shows which way the ranking moves, not an exact figure for any address — Kansas sits at the bottom on $45,263.
- These are distribution medians for financial specialists, all other, with a national value of $81,100. They describe a midpoint rather than an expected offer, and the within-occupation spread — visible in the tenth and ninetieth percentile figures — is wide enough that a state-level median is a weak predictor for any individual worker.
- The household modeled for financial specialists, all other is a single filer, standard deduction, no dependants, no pre-tax contributions. Holding the household constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful; it also means the absolute figures overstate liability for most real filers. On that basis the District of Columbia retains the most, $89,113. Municipal and school-district income taxes are not included in any state.
- The price deflation applied to financial specialists, all other uses state-level parities. Within-state dispersion in price level, concentrated in housing, is large enough that a state figure describes no particular locality well; the bottom of this occupation's real range is Kansas at $45,263. The comparison establishes the direction and rough magnitude of the reordering rather than an address-level result — Kansas anchors the bottom at $45,263 — and the two source series are dated independently.