Personal Financial Advisors
United States. Estimated employment 266,800, with pages for 13 metro areas below.
Data released May 2025
BLS OEWS · SOC 13-2052
Fig. 1 — The wage rule
Where you sit in the distribution
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$105,070 · 50th
$50,19010th
$72,44025th
$105,07050th
$176,79075th
$357,02090th
That is the median — half of personal financial advisors in the US earn more.
Table 1 — By metro area
Where it pays
Every published Personal Financial Advisors page, by median pay. Employment is the BLS estimate for the metro.
| Metro area | Median | Employment |
|---|---|---|
| New York, NY | $170,050 | 23,980 |
| San Francisco, CA | $160,610 | 7,130 |
| San Jose, CA | $136,820 | 1,530 |
| San Diego, CA | $130,330 | 3,010 |
| Sacramento, CA | $127,950 | 1,260 |
| Napa, CA | $127,240 | 100 |
| Syracuse, NY | $126,430 | 240 |
| Albany, NY | $124,610 | 680 |
| Los Angeles, CA | $124,490 | 13,980 |
| Santa Maria, CA | $124,380 | 210 |
| Kiryas Joel, NY | $114,110 | 260 |
| Buffalo, NY | $103,650 | 690 |
| Binghamton, NY | $103,590 | 100 |
Sources
How this page was made
- Wage data
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
- Employment
- 266,800 employed in this occupation nationally (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 13-2052, Personal Financial Advisors. Mapped to our taxonomy as personal-financial-advisors.
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