Occupation / job
Financial Examiners
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
$94,160 is $3,678 a month above the $50,020 the typical American job pays. Differences of that size in Financial Examiners are held in place by a barrier — a licence, a residency, a clearance — and the barrier is the real subject of this page.
Employment stands at 67,830. Financial Examiners is common enough to be recruited for continuously and specific enough that the experience travels — the combination that makes changing employer a working pay rise.
Financial specialist work suits people who are precise about other people’s money and unbothered that the calendar, not the workload, decides when the pressure arrives.
We carry no verified training length for Financial Examiners — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
The quarters sit at $70,660 and $129,600 — 1.8x, or $4,911 a month apart. At that width the occupation contains genuinely different jobs, and which one you are being offered matters more than the title does.
Even at the 25th percentile Financial Examiners pays $70,660, $20,640 clear of the $50,020 national midpoint. Almost the entire distribution sits above the typical American wage, which is rare and worth weighing against the entry cost.
Avoid it if repetitive detail work drains you; the quarter-end and year-end cycles are non-negotiable and immovable.
There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 67,830 people employed as Financial Examiners; it did not count the people who trained for it and are doing something else, and a rate built without that denominator would be a number we made up.
What the spread tells you
A ratio of 1.8x — $70,660 to $129,600 — is wide enough that specialising inside Financial Examiners pays measurably. $94,160 is the middle of a range you can move within.
In cash terms the middle half of Financial Examiners runs $70,660 to $129,600 — $58,940 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $94,160.
Between $70,660 and $129,600 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $94,160. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $35,440; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $58,940.
$35,440 separates $94,160 from the $129,600 top quarter, while only $23,500 separates it from $70,660. The range leans upward, which means the middle of Financial Examiners has more room above it than a symmetric reading of the median would suggest.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $45.26 at the midpoint for Financial Examiners, $33.97 at the 25th percentile and $62.30 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
What these figures are, and what they are not
Employers reported these wages for people already working as Financial Examiners. The self-employed are excluded, so $94,160 does not describe an independent doing the same work.
The hourly number on this page is $94,160 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Financial Examiners, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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