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Financial Managers earn $166,570 a year at the midpoint

Pay in this work stretches a long way: the lowest tenth earn about $94,310, the highest tenth about $323,270, and the middle sits at $166,570.

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$166,570median a year · United States
$80.08an hour $186,910average 841,710people
Nine in ten people in this work earn between the two ends. The shaded part is the middle half — where most people are.
$125,49025th $166,570median $219,98075th
$94,31010th percentile $323,27090th percentile
$125,490a year at the 25th percentile, nearer a first job
$219,880best-paying state · New York
$111,390lowest-paying state · Mississippi
+32%top state against the national median
  • Read the spread, not the middle. The median is the midpoint across everyone in the occupation, most of them years into the work. A beginner starts nearer the 10th to 25th percentile, which is why the spread is published alongside it.
  • What the figure counts. The figure counts base pay plus tips, commissions and production bonuses. It leaves out the self-employed, unpaid family workers, private household workers, and the value of benefits or profit sharing.
  • Where you live moves it more than your resume does. National figures. A state or metro area can sit far from the national number, and that gap is usually larger than any difference a resume makes.
  • Not in these numbers. Growth and annual openings are not in this dataset. They come from the separate Employment Projections tables, where an opening is a modelled ten year average and not a posted vacancy.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, 2025. Retrieved through the BLS Public Data API on 2026-08-13. bls.gov/oes “BLS.gov cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov.”

Among the best-paidNumber 15 of 788 occupations by median pay — in the top five per cent.
State matters a lotThe same job pays $219,880 in New York and $111,390 in Mississippi — a gap of $108,490 a year.

Financial manager earnings, from starting pay to the highest 10%

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$166,566a year

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Financial manager wages, state by state

The 46 states where the most people do this work, of 51 with a published figure: their medians range by 1.97 times. Figures are the 2025 survey.

State Median a year Where most start 10th to 90th Employed
New York $219,880 $124,670 $124,670 — $370,780 80,810
Massachusetts $206,760 $120,850 $120,850 — $332,490 26,150
New Jersey $199,110 $130,630 $130,630 — $337,130 32,510
District of Columbia $188,880 $130,880 $130,880 — $349,420 8,930
Virginia $185,220 $108,760 $108,760 — $323,300 20,850
Colorado $182,690 $123,900 $123,900 — $339,290 10,640
Delaware $181,580 $129,930 $129,930 — $321,620 2,810
California $180,770 $101,820 $101,820 — $341,670 93,310
Washington $174,840 $115,250 $115,250 — $318,450 12,930
Connecticut $174,830 $98,540 $98,540 — $333,370 20,040
Rhode Island $166,940 $97,180 $97,180 — $304,310 2,570
Georgia $166,790 $94,040 $94,040 — $315,890 21,390
North Carolina $166,780 $100,950 $100,950 — $322,090 22,460
Illinois $165,880 $100,070 $100,070 — $313,110 52,720
Texas $164,860 $98,250 $98,250 — $309,290 71,870
Minnesota $163,410 $99,250 $99,250 — $277,680 16,680
Kansas $159,380 $97,510 $97,510 — $273,640 5,190
Maryland $158,750 $84,030 $84,030 — $290,190 19,770
Oregon $156,460 $100,890 $100,890 — $277,820 7,610
Florida $153,280 $79,450 $79,450 — $303,790 48,910
Utah $150,450 $87,550 $87,550 — $282,980 8,860
Pennsylvania $145,610 $83,180 $83,180 — $286,240 32,180
New Hampshire $144,730 $87,270 $87,270 — $243,350 4,330
Missouri $143,460 $86,950 $86,950 — $273,420 13,330
Tennessee $141,010 $83,080 $83,080 — $288,750 17,630
Ohio $140,870 $82,190 $82,190 — $273,760 27,360
Alabama $140,500 $86,340 $86,340 — $256,750 7,200
Nebraska $140,360 $89,990 $89,990 — $227,640 5,630
Arizona $139,830 $80,690 $80,690 — $254,840 14,900
Wisconsin $139,720 $83,100 $83,100 — $236,620 15,530
Michigan $139,370 $80,280 $80,280 — $258,480 22,490
South Carolina $136,160 $78,930 $78,930 — $277,850 9,020
North Dakota $135,890 $87,610 $87,610 — $229,150 2,140
Indiana $135,840 $80,610 $80,610 — $234,710 12,560
Hawaii $134,210 $79,060 $79,060 — $220,190 3,790
New Mexico $133,700 $90,750 $90,750 — $216,360 2,530
Maine $133,610 $81,700 $81,700 — $231,620 3,120
Iowa $133,320 $80,020 $80,020 — $225,920 9,130
Nevada $132,490 $75,240 $75,240 — $282,460 8,090
Oklahoma $132,460 $69,910 $69,910 — $238,250 6,670
Kentucky $130,650 $82,110 $82,110 — $223,290 6,630
Idaho $127,210 $76,890 $76,890 — $213,230 3,120
Louisiana $126,800 $78,040 $78,040 — $220,870 7,070
Arkansas $116,570 $62,780 $62,780 — $225,010 7,120
West Virginia $113,140 $73,260 $73,260 — $199,920 2,610
Mississippi $111,390 $58,250 $58,250 — $210,520 3,470

Neighbouring work, and what it pays

Occupations in the same group of the federal classification — the usual next steps, or the ones beside this one.

Financial Managers$166,570
Computer and Information Systems Managers$175,140+$8,570 Purchasing Managers$148,080−$18,490 Industrial Production Managers$126,060−$40,510 Facilities Managers$106,660−$59,910

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  • Established and maintained relationships with individual or business customers or provided assistance with problems these customers may encounter.
  • Oversaw the flow of cash or financial instruments.
  • Planned, directed, or coordinated the activities of workers in branches, offices, or departments of establishments, such as branch banks, brokerage firms, risk and insurance departments, or credit departments.

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Place 15 of 788 by median pay

Better paid than 98% of the occupations in the survey.

  1. 13 Natural Sciences Managers $167,220
  2. 14 Marketing managers $166,790
  3. 15 Financial Managers $166,570
  4. 16 Computer Hardware Engineers $161,740
  5. 17 Podiatrists $160,300

Questions people ask

What is a financial manager’s yearly income?

A financial manager makes a median of $166,570 a year (2025 survey). The middle half earn between $125,490 and $219,980.

What is a financial manager’s hourly pay rate?

The median pay rate is $80.08 an hour; the average is $186,910 a year.

What is the starting pay for a financial manager?

Starting pay is usually near the 25th percentile, $125,490 a year, and sometimes as low as the 10th, $94,310.

Which state pays financial managers the most?

New York, with a median of $219,880 a year.

How many people work as financial managers?

About 841,710 in the United States — number 15 of 788 occupations by median pay.

Work that pays nearly the same

Median pay within $4,830 of what financial managers earn — $166,570 a year — but not always the same spread.

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