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Financial Risk Specialists

United States. Estimated employment 63,850, with pages for 5 metro areas below.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 13-2054
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

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$117,330 · 50th
$64,82010th
$83,98025th
$117,33050th
$158,25075th
$196,11090th

That is the medianhalf of financial risk specialists in the US earn more.

Table 1 — By metro area

Where it pays

Every published Financial Risk Specialists page, by median pay. Employment is the BLS estimate for the metro.

Metro areaMedianEmployment
New York, NY$139,67012,770
Syracuse, NY$122,740100
Albany, NY$120,570200
Buffalo, NY$96,980470
Rochester, NY$85,540210
Sources

How this page was made

Wage data
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
Employment
63,850 employed in this occupation nationally (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 13-2054, Financial Risk Specialists. Mapped to our taxonomy as financial-risk-specialists.

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