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Financial Risk Specialists

Rochester, NY metropolitan area. Estimated employment 210.

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

Where you sit in the distribution

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$85,540 · 50th
$59,01010th
$65,86025th
$85,54050th
$128,41075th
$151,09090th

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

Table 1 — Adjusted

$85,540 in Rochester buys what $88,200 buys across the country as a whole.

Rochester's regional price parity is 97.0 — below the national average, so a dollar here goes further than the nominal figure suggests. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.

Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in New York

Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Rochester
New York$139,670$124,100112.6+40.8%
Syracuse$122,740$128,20095.7+45.4%
Albany$120,570$121,10099.6+37.4%
Kiryas Joel$106,400$97,200109.4+10.3%
Buffalo$96,980$101,20095.8+14.8%
Rochester This page$85,540$88,20097.0

Price parity and difference against Rochester are in the full table on wider screens.

Fig. 2 — Five-year trend

Nominal against real

The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.

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Nominal, as published Real, in 2025 dollars US$ thousands

Published pay fell 13.9% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it fell 27.5% — prices rose faster than pay since 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.

Sources

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.
Inflation
Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
Employment
210 employed in this occupation in the metro (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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