Actuary salary
What an actuary actually earns, from 217 live job postings blended with the official US OEWS (Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics) wage anchor. Pick a market for its median and range, then read the seniority split, the trend, and the country comparison below. Updated 2026-09-06.
Switch the market above to see actuary pay in the 3 countries our sources cover, each with its own cost of living. The trend, seniority, and state detail below are United States data, where the official record runs deepest.
What the number means
An actuary earns a blended US median near 147,204 dollars, with the typical middle running from 118,025 dollars to 186,195 dollars. The official OEWS median is 125,770 dollars, under the posted figure, because the advertised roles skew senior or well-funded. The official trend has moved up about 16 percent since 2019. By seniority, posted pay runs from roughly 122,108 dollars to 136,436 dollars. Demand is rated high, and 4% of postings are fully remote. The nearest adjacent move on our skill graph is economist, at 33 percent coverage; the instrument maps the rest.
Open actuary roles
Live openings tagged to this occupation, from company career pages and remote boards. Apply at the source.
- Actuary Expert Life Pricing at Generali Personenversicherung AGAdliswil, Zürich, Switzerland · Remote2d agoApply
- Chief Actuary at Employee Benefits Security AdministrationWashington, District of Columbia$152k–$210k4d agoApply
Senior Actuarial Analyst - Heath Plan at SCANUnited States · Remote$90k–$120k5d agoApply- DB Actuarial Analyst at Just GroupLondon1w agoApply
Staff Actuary at Virta HealthUSA1w agoApply
Consulting Actuary at AssuredPartnersRolling Meadows, IL1w agoApply
By seniority
Posted-median pay by seniority signal in the title, from our corpus. Noisy at the edges where sample sizes are small.
By country
- United States$118,025$147,204$186,195
- United Kingdom$93,609$126,674$141,553
- Canada$57,707$70,728$82,649
Switzerland · official wage bands
median CHF 8'730/month
Swiss postings do not state pay, so these are not posted salaries: they are the federal wage survey (Lohnstrukturerhebung 2024) for the ISCO group 21 Naturwissenschaftler, Mathematiker und Ingenieure: standardized gross monthly, full-time, 13th salary included pro rata. The band covers the whole occupation group, which is coarser than this occupation alone.
Annual ≈ CHF 104'760 at the median. Source: Bundesamt für Statistik, LSE 2024.
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Quick answers
How much does an actuary make?
The blended US median is about 147,204 dollars, with a typical range from 118,025 dollars to 186,195 dollars, against an official OEWS median of 125,770 dollars.
Is actuary a good career in 2026?
Demand for the role is rated high in our July 2026 corpus, with 4% of postings fully remote. The pay is shown above by seniority and by country.
What can an actuary move into?
The nearest adjacent role on our skill graph is economist, at 33 percent skill coverage. Run the instrument for the full set of reachable moves.
Method: bands are the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles of live US postings with stated pay, shrunk toward the official OEWS anchor by sample size (the “blended” figure). Trend is the OEWS annual median for SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code 15-2011. Live corpus 217 observations, 2026-09-06. Definitions in the glossary.