Financial Controller salary
What a financial controller actually earns, from 671 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 financial controller pay in the 4 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
A financial controller earns a blended US median near 137,984 dollars, with the typical middle running from 111,499 dollars to 170,696 dollars. The official OEWS median is higher, 161,700 dollars, because job ads skew toward the roles that pay below the occupation-wide average. The official trend has moved up about 24 percent since 2019. Demand is rated high, and 2% of postings are fully remote. The nearest adjacent move on our skill graph is accountant, at 56 percent coverage; the instrument maps the rest.
Open financial controller roles
Live openings tagged to this occupation, from company career pages and remote boards. Apply at the source.
Controller at SpreedlyUSA · Remote1d agoApply- (Senior) Controller / Finance Business Partner (m/w/d) at Pammys™ (dieseo GmbH)Hamburg1d agoApply
- Controller/ Buchhalter (all genders) at theBASE FOL Group GmbHBerlin · Remote1d agoApply
QuickBooks Financial Controller at Entrepreneur CooperativeEgypt · Remote1d agoApply- Controller/-in (m/w/a) 100 % at Klinikgruppe ValensSargans, St. Gallen, Switzerland · Remote1d agoApply
- (Senior) Controller (m/w/d) at qinXUlm, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland2d agoApply
By country
- United States$111,499$137,984$170,696
- United Kingdom$81,862$92,095$105,738
- Canada$68,915$83,423$98,566
- Netherlands$60,268$70,079$80,591
Switzerland · official wage bands
median CHF 10'375/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 12 Führungskräfte im kaufmännischen Bereich: 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 124'500 at the median. Source: Bundesamt für Statistik, LSE 2024.
Top-paying US states
OEWS median by state, highest first.
- New York$215,740
- New Jersey$188,750
- California$174,920
- Colorado$174,840
- Washington$171,300
- Texas$160,350
Every measured move out of this role, ranked by readiness: alternative careers for a financial controller.
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Quick answers
How much does a financial controller make?
The blended US median is about 137,984 dollars, with a typical range from 111,499 dollars to 170,696 dollars, against an official OEWS median of 161,700 dollars.
Is financial controller a good career in 2026?
Demand for the role is rated high in our July 2026 corpus, with 2% of postings fully remote. The pay is shown above by seniority and by country.
What can a financial controller move into?
The nearest adjacent role on our skill graph is accountant, at 56 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 11-3031. Live corpus 671 observations, 2026-09-06. Definitions in the glossary.