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Pay · 13-2052

Personal Financial Advisors earn $105,070 a year at the midpoint

Pay in this work stretches a long way: the lowest tenth earn about $50,190, the highest tenth about $357,020, and the middle sits at $105,070.

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$105,070median a year · United States
$50.51an hour $156,670average 266,800people
Nine in ten people in this work earn between the two ends. The shaded part is the middle half — where most people are.
$72,44025th $105,070median $176,79075th
$50,19010th percentile $357,02090th percentile
$72,440a year at the 25th percentile, nearer a first job
$166,400best-paying state · New York
$63,300lowest-paying state · Mississippi
+58%top state against the national median
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  • 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.
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  • 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.”

State matters a lotThe same job pays $166,400 in New York and $63,300 in Mississippi — a gap of $103,100 a year.

Personal financial advisor earnings, from starting pay to the best-paid 10%

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Ranked 93 of 788 by median pay

Better paid than 88% of the occupations in the survey.

  1. 91 Statisticians $105,650
  2. 92 Radiation Therapists $105,310
  3. 93 Personal Financial Advisors $105,070
  4. 94 Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products $104,920
  5. 95 Database Administrators $104,620

Personal financial advisor pay rate, hourly and yearly

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$105,061a year

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  • Interviewed clients to determine their current income, expenses, insurance coverage, tax status, financial objectives, risk tolerance, or other information needed to develop a financial plan.
  • Analyzed financial information obtained from clients to determine strategies for meeting clients' financial objectives.
  • Answered clients' questions about the purposes and details of financial plans and strategies.

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Personal financial advisor wages by state

The 42 states where the most people do this work, of 49 with a published figure: their medians range by 2.63 times. Figures are the 2025 survey.

State Median a year Where most start 10th to 90th Employed
New York $166,400 $76,190 $76,190 — $427,700 21,550
New Jersey $158,570 $78,860 $78,860 — $374,530 9,300
California $130,330 $67,690 $67,690 — $393,860 32,200
South Dakota $128,720 $77,280 $77,280 — $337,140 620
Oregon $122,830 $54,940 $54,940 — $459,050 3,070
Illinois $120,130 $51,820 $51,820 — $328,650 9,760
Wisconsin $119,430 $51,760 $51,760 — $401,510 5,200
Washington $114,050 $58,650 $58,650 — $344,850 5,790
Vermont $110,020 $58,150 $58,150 — $241,610 520
Pennsylvania $105,200 $59,960 $59,960 — $392,900 12,200
Minnesota $102,660 $47,520 $47,520 — $310,730 5,280
Virginia $102,640 $51,440 $51,440 — $420,980 6,340
Kansas $102,530 $56,830 $56,830 — $318,200 4,150
Georgia $101,450 $46,180 $46,180 — $367,640 6,830
Florida $100,970 $48,950 $48,950 — $395,370 21,490
Missouri $99,930 $51,470 $51,470 — $313,230 4,480
Maryland $99,880 $47,810 $47,810 — $378,060 5,260
Texas $99,160 $46,450 $46,450 — $359,040 18,200
Arizona $96,950 $45,330 $45,330 — $212,630 6,430
North Carolina $96,880 $48,790 $48,790 — $287,290 12,340
New Hampshire $96,780 $57,700 $57,700 — $311,810 1,850
South Carolina $96,330 $45,420 $45,420 — $250,180 2,400
Idaho $94,370 $44,500 $44,500 — $252,340 760
New Mexico $94,270 $56,450 $56,450 — $403,970 610
Nebraska $93,280 $52,370 $52,370 — $214,280 2,210
Nevada $92,720 $45,050 $45,050 — $224,670 1,730
Iowa $92,310 $51,310 $51,310 — $268,860 1,920
Ohio $90,990 $49,400 $49,400 — $222,060 7,680
Colorado $89,280 $57,020 $57,020 — $269,500 6,730
Indiana $87,710 $44,150 $44,150 — $319,330 5,400
Tennessee $84,160 $44,170 $44,170 — $406,200 3,970
Rhode Island $80,200 $46,670 $46,670 — $164,230 1,130
West Virginia $80,010 $45,020 $45,020 — $219,510 670
Arkansas $79,420 $36,710 $36,710 — $207,560 1,320
Alabama $77,990 $42,150 $42,150 — $342,030 2,540
Michigan $77,930 $44,780 $44,780 — $288,860 6,570
Utah $77,390 $47,840 $47,840 — $208,970 2,520
North Dakota $76,870 $59,470 $59,470 — $135,470 540
Hawaii $76,070 $48,060 $48,060 — $314,250 550
Oklahoma $68,670 $36,920 $36,920 — $176,920 1,140
Kentucky $67,150 $43,880 $43,880 — $281,230 2,040
Mississippi $63,300 $43,880 $43,880 — $312,580 790

No estimate is published for 2 states: the survey withholds a figure when too few employers report it. Nothing has been filled in for them.

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.

Personal Financial Advisors$105,070
Financial Risk Specialists$117,330+$12,260 Financial and investment analysts$102,740−$2,330 Insurance Underwriters$81,370−$23,700

Questions people ask most

What is a personal financial advisor’s yearly income?

A personal financial advisor makes a median of $105,070 a year (2025 survey). The middle half earn between $72,440 and $176,790.

What is a personal financial advisor’s hourly pay rate?

The median pay rate is $50.51 an hour; the average is $156,670 a year.

What is the starting pay for a personal financial advisor?

Starting pay is usually near the 25th percentile, $72,440 a year, and sometimes as low as the 10th, $50,190.

Which state pays personal financial advisors the most?

New York, with a median of $166,400 a year.

How many people work as personal financial advisors?

About 266,800 in the United States — number 93 of 788 occupations by median pay.

Work that pays about the same

Median pay within $700 of what personal financial advisors earn — $105,070 a year — but not always the same spread.

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