Personal Financial Advisors in Vermont
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$81,078
after federal, FICA and Vermont tax
Tax takes
$28,942
26.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$83,901
Vermont costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Vermont — 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
$110,020
Kept after tax
$81,078
Worth in national money
$83,901
State rank
12
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for personal financial advisors is strong here. Vermont's middle earner gets $110,020, putting the state 12 of 49 — about 4.71% ahead of the national figure.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Vermont. It ranks 33 out of 453 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Here is where Vermont does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $110,020 you keep $81,078, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $83,901 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $136,000, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For personal financial advisors, Vermont sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $110,020, ranking 12 of 49 and running about 4.71% 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.
- Within Vermont, personal financial advisors ranks 33 of 453 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- After federal, FICA and Vermont income tax, retained pay for personal financial advisors on $110,020 is $81,078. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $83,901 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $136,000 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Personal Financial Advisors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $58,150 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $110,020 |
| Top tenth earn over | $241,610 |
| This salary | $110,020 |
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 Vermont | $81,078 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $86,229 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,834 |
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 | $102,698 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,678 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $110,020 as a midpoint for Vermont, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $58,150 and the ninetieth is $241,610 — 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 Vermont's $81,078, worked from $110,020. 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 33 of 453.
- Two cautions on $83,901, the adjusted value of that $110,020 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Vermont. 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 33 of 453 locally.
- The Vermont median of $110,020 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $58,150 to $241,610. 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 Vermont take-home of $81,078, on $110,020 for work ranking 33 of 453 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 33 of 453 in the state.
- This $83,901 adjusted figure, worked from $110,020, 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 33 of 453 in the state. The occupation ranks 33 of 453 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 $136,000 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?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $58,150, the highest tenth $241,610, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Vermont is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $83,901 in national terms.
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; Vermont then takes its own share, leaving $81,078.
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 Vermont is $136,000. 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 ($58,150) and the ninetieth ($241,610) 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?
Vermont'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 $83,901 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 $81,078 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Vermont 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.