Financial Analyst salary
What a financial analyst actually earns, from 1,065 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 analyst 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
Financial analysis is the rare role where the official number sits above the advertised one. Live US postings put the median near 82,000 dollars, but the OEWS median is 101,350, because job ads skew toward entry-level FP&A (financial planning and analysis) seats while OEWS counts the senior and buy-side analysts who rarely advertise. Read the OEWS line as the career, the posted band as the door. The stability is the real story: unemployment for financial and investment analysts is 1.7 percent, among the lowest of any desk job we track, because every company needs someone to forecast and defend the budget. The ceiling opens with the CFA (the Chartered Financial Analyst credential), which separates corporate analysts from the investment side where compensation stops being a salary and starts being a bonus. For an accountant weighing the move, this is the door out of the tight accounting band, and it opens with skills you already hold.
Open financial analyst roles
Live openings tagged to this occupation, from company career pages and remote boards. Apply at the source.
Finance Manager at HeidiLondonTodayApply
Project Finance Analyst at PerceptiveUnited Kingdom · Remote1d agoApply
(Senior) Finance Manager (all genders) at KlimBerlin, Germany1d agoApply
Financial Analyst at Moody'sHeredia1d agoApply
Senior Finance Analyst — The Flex at The FlexLondon2d agoApply
Investment Analyst - Fully Remote | Upto $160/hr at MercorUnited Kingdom · Remote2d 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$84,673$112,400$142,985
- Canada$52,702$61,548$71,676
- United Kingdom$54,575$67,509$81,894
- Australia$77,287$87,756$103,481
Switzerland · official wage bands
median CHF 9'509/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 24 Betriebswirte und vergleichbare Spezialisten: 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 114'108 at the median. Source: Bundesamt für Statistik, LSE 2024.
Top-paying US states
OEWS median by state, highest first.
- California$128,248
- New York$126,580
- Washington$125,560
- Virginia$119,759
- New Jersey$109,380
- Oregon$107,680
Roles that pay more, that these skills already reach
Median pay from each destination’s own postings, with the readiness a financial analyst profile already covers.
- 28 open actuary roles$147,204 median · +$34,804 · 54% readiness
- 157 open financial controller roles$137,984 median · +$25,584 · 84% readiness
- 600 open business analyst roles$122,331 median · +$9,931 · 43% readiness
- 424 open management consultant roles$121,564 median · +$9,164 · 26% readiness
Every measured move out of this role, ranked by readiness: alternative careers for a financial analyst.
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Move into or out of financial analyst
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Quick answers
How much do financial analysts make?
The official BLS OEWS median is 101,350 dollars, above the live-posting median of about 82,000 because job ads skew toward entry-level roles. The posted middle half runs 75,000 to 107,000.
Do financial analysts have job security?
Unusually good: unemployment for financial and investment analysts is 1.7 percent, among the lowest of the desk jobs we track.
Is the CFA worth it for a financial analyst?
It is the credential that separates corporate FP&A from the higher-paid investment side, where compensation shifts from salary toward bonus. Not required for most corporate roles.
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 13-2051. Unemployment is the 2025 BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) CPS (Current Population Survey) annual-average rate for “Financial and investment analysts.” Live corpus 1,065 observations, 2026-09-06. Definitions in the glossary.