Occupation / job
Financial Specialists, All Other
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
$81,100 against a $50,020 national midpoint is 62% more, or $14.94 an hour. Almost nothing pays this much more without a long, expensive or restricted route in — read that route before reading the number again.
132,130 people are employed as Financial Specialists, All Other. At that size there is a real ladder and enough churn that experience can be sold to a competitor rather than only accumulated where you are.
These roles suit people who are comfortable being the check on someone else’s numbers, and who can say so plainly when the numbers do not hold.
We carry no verified training length for Financial Specialists, All Other — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
The quarters sit at $61,290 and $110,410 — 1.8x, or $4,093 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.
At $61,290, or $29.46 an hour, the 25th percentile sits $11,270 above the $50,020 the typical American job pays. Occupations with floors this high almost always have a requirement holding them there.
Avoid it if you would find it hard to deliver an unwelcome finding to the person who commissioned the work.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 132,130 is a headcount of the employed, which is a numerator without a denominator — everyone who qualified and never got hired is missing from it, and we will not estimate them to complete a percentage.
What the spread tells you
A ratio of 1.8x — $61,290 to $110,410 — is wide enough that specialising inside Financial Specialists, All Other pays measurably. $81,100 is the middle of a range you can move within.
In cash terms the middle half of Financial Specialists, All Other runs $61,290 to $110,410 — $49,120 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $81,100.
Between $61,290 and $110,410 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $81,100. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $29,310; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $49,120.
$29,310 separates $81,100 from the $110,410 top quarter, while only $19,810 separates it from $61,290. The range leans upward, which means the middle of Financial Specialists, All Other has more room above it than a symmetric reading of the median would suggest.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Financial Specialists, All Other is $38.99 an hour. The quarters sit at $29.46 and $53.08, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
What these figures are, and what they are not
This is payroll data: it comes from employers, about people they employ. Anyone doing the work of Financial Specialists, All Other for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $81,100 describes them.
Treat the per-hour figure as a conversion. It assumes a flat full-time year against $81,100 because we have no verified record of unpaid hours or out-of-pocket costs for this work, and we would rather convert honestly than adjust invented ones.
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