Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents in New York
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$116,866
after federal, FICA and New York tax
Tax takes
$51,474
30.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$108,586
New York costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in New York — 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
$168,340
Kept after tax
$116,866
Worth in national money
$108,586
State rank
1
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. New York's middle earner gets $168,340, putting the state 1 of 48 — about 114.01% ahead of the national figure.
- Within New York this is well-paid work. Of 493 occupations with published figures in the state, this job ranks 19 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- New York is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $168,340 the take-home is $116,866; in national-average money that behaves like $108,586. The average comes to $185,400, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents, New York sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $168,340, ranking 1 of 48 and running about 114.01% 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.
- Ranked against every occupation New York publishes a median for, securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents sits 19 of 493 — 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.
- Take-home for securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents in New York, on $168,340, is $116,866; deflated by the state's price level, $108,586. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $185,400 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $59,960 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $168,340 |
| Top tenth earn over | $329,460 |
| This salary | $168,340 |
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 New York | $116,866 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $126,326 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$21,413 |
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 | $154,499 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$30,444 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 108 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents in New York earn under $168,340 and half over. The published range runs $59,960 at the tenth percentile to $329,460 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind New York's $116,866, worked from $168,340. 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 19 of 493.
- Two cautions on $108,586, the adjusted value of that $168,340 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of New York. 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 19 of 493 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents in New York, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $59,960 to $329,460; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- The New York take-home of $116,866, on $168,340 for work ranking 19 of 493 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 19 of 493 in the state.
- This $108,586 adjusted figure, worked from $168,340, 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 19 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 19 of 493 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 $185,400 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?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $59,960 and the top tenth $329,460 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in New York run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $108,586 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and New York's own levy, $116,866 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 48 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 New York is $185,400. 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 ($59,960) and the ninetieth ($329,460) 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.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
New York's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $108,586 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $116,866 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and New York 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.