Financial and Investment Analysts
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metropolitan area. Estimated employment 13,010.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in Boston earn more.
$117,520 in Boston buys what $108,500 buys across the country as a whole.
Boston's regional price parity is 108.3 — well above the national average — a dollar here buys noticeably less than in the US as a whole. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.
The same job, elsewhere in Massachusetts
Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.
| Metro area | Median | Adjusted | RPP | vs. Boston |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barnstable Town | $121,530 | $123,600 | 98.4 | +13.8% |
| Boston This page | $117,520 | $108,500 | 108.3 | — |
| Springfield | $103,200 | $107,400 | 96.1 | −1.0% |
| Worcester | $98,960 | $96,500 | 102.5 | −11.1% |
| Pittsfield | $97,070 | $102,100 | 95.1 | −6.0% |
| Amherst Town | $95,820 | $95,600 | 100.2 | −11.9% |
Price parity and difference against Boston are in the full table on wider screens.
Who pays what
Median offered salary from visa filings, which disclose employer, title and exact figure. Government wage surveys never publish at this level.
| Employer | Median offer | Range | Filings | vs. metro |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Investor Group Services | $185,000 | $90k – $303k | 5 | +57.4% |
| Ernst Young U S | $150,000 | $83k – $302k | 18 | +27.6% |
| Fidelity Management Research Company LLC D B A Fidelity Investments | $128,981 | $103k – $157k | 5 | +9.8% |
| Wellington Management | $113,000 | $105k – $175k | 6 | −3.8% |
| FMR LLC D B A Fidelity Investments | $103,014 | $72k – $157k | 7 | −12.3% |
| Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance | $80,000 | $76k – $157k | 6 | −31.9% |
Offer ranges and filing counts are in the full table on wider screens.
How this page was made
- Wage data
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
- Price parity
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
- Employer pay
- Department of Labor, Labor Condition Application disclosures, FY 2025. The table draws on 47 certified filings across 6 employers.
- Employment
- 13,010 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 13-2051, Financial and Investment Analysts. Mapped to our taxonomy as financial-and-investment-analysts.
Percentiles are reported exactly as released and are never interpolated between published values. Visa filings record offered base salary at time of application, exclude equity and bonus, and skew toward larger employers — treat the employer table as a floor, not an average. We take no payment from employers, recruiters or anyone else for how any figure is presented.