Personal Financial Advisors in Alabama
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$60,378
after federal, FICA and Alabama tax
Tax takes
$17,612
22.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$67,109
Alabama costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Alabama — 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
$77,990
Kept after tax
$60,378
Worth in national money
$67,109
State rank
41
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Alabama pays personal financial advisors a middle wage of $77,990, 41 of 49 states and about 25.77% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Within Alabama this is well-paid work. Of 482 occupations with published figures in the state, personal financial advisors ranks 99 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $77,990 you keep $60,378 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $67,109 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $132,860, since top earners drag the number up.
- Alabama's $77,990 median for personal financial advisors places it 41 of 49 states, about 25.77% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Ranked against every occupation Alabama publishes a median for, personal financial advisors sits 99 of 482 — 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.
- Retained pay in Alabama is $60,378 after the full tax stack, from $77,990. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $67,109 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $132,860 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Personal Financial Advisors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $42,150 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $77,990 |
| Top tenth earn over | $342,030 |
| This salary | $77,990 |
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 Alabama | $60,378 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $63,696 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,561 |
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 | $73,273 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,156 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $77,990 as a midpoint for Alabama, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $42,150 and the ninetieth is $342,030 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Alabama's $60,378, worked from $77,990. 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 99 of 482.
- One number stands for prices across all of Alabama, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $67,109, the adjusted value of that $77,990 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 99 of 482 in the state.
- The Alabama median of $77,990 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $42,150 to $342,030. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Alabama take-home of $60,378, on $77,990 for work ranking 99 of 482 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 99 of 482 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Alabama, so $67,109 — the adjusted value of that $77,990 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 99 of 482 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 $132,860, 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?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $42,150 and the top tenth $342,030 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Alabama sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $67,109 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; Alabama then takes its own share, leaving $60,378.
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 Alabama is $132,860. 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 ($42,150) and the ninetieth ($342,030) 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?
Alabama'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 $67,109 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 $60,378 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Alabama 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.