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Financial Examiners

SOC 13-2061

Examine banks and insurers for solvency and compliance with the law.

The job
Median pay
$94k
$71k to $130k typical range
Outlook, 2025 to 2035
Growing fast
+9.3% projected
Openings a year
5k
BLS projection
Typical education
Bachelor's
Our model
AI displacement risk
Very high
How much of this job AI may do instead of the person
Works with AI
3/100
AI alongside the person rather than instead of them
AI exposure
84th pct
More exposed than 84% of occupations · modeled estimate · 48th pct in Microsoft's data
Future-proof
53/100

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Pay and jobs by state

BLS OEWS May 2025, 51 states. Sorted by jobs; per 1,000 is jobs per thousand workers in the state; vs national compares that rate with the country's. A tilde marks a figure estimated from the parent occupation group where BLS publishes none.

StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
New York13,4801.43.2×$129k
Texas5,2300.40.8×$78k
California4,2000.20.5×$106k
Florida4,1900.41.0×$76k
Illinois4,0500.71.5×$93k
Ohio3,6800.71.5×$69k
North Carolina2,6100.51.2×$101k
Pennsylvania2,5900.41.0×$79k
Missouri2,2900.81.8×$80k
New Jersey2,1900.51.2×$106k
All 51 states
StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
Arizona1,9100.61.4×$80k
Colorado1,9100.71.5×$100k
Georgia1,4500.30.7×$78k
Minnesota1,2800.41.0×$104k
Virginia1,2800.30.7×$104k
Iowa1,0200.71.5×$80k
Utah9600.61.3×$92k
Massachusetts9500.30.6×$111k
Nebraska8400.81.9×$74k
Oregon8200.41.0×$95k
Michigan7100.20.4×$71k
Alabama6960.30.8×$87k~
Connecticut6850.40.9×$121k~
Kentucky6400.30.7×$76k
Wisconsin5800.20.5×$86k
Arkansas5400.40.9×$58k
Tennessee5000.20.3×$87k
South Carolina4800.20.5×$86k
Washington DC4700.71.5×$199k
Kansas4700.30.8×$80k
Delaware4300.92.0×$92k
Indiana4200.10.3×$81k
Mississippi4200.40.8×$85k
Washington4200.10.3×$114k
Oklahoma4000.20.5×$81k
Maryland3500.10.3×$103k
Rhode Island3200.61.5×$94k
Hawaii2700.41.0×$63k
Louisiana2400.10.3×$84k
West Virginia2400.30.8×$61k
Maine2300.40.8×$81k
New Mexico2200.30.6×$68k
North Dakota2200.51.2×$83k
Idaho2100.20.6×$85k
Nevada1800.10.3×$85k
Vermont1700.61.3×$75k
South Dakota1500.30.8×$89k
Montana1400.30.6×$81k
New Hampshire1300.20.4×$81k
Wyoming830.30.7×$87k~
Alaska500.20.3×$91k

Top metro areas

  1. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ13,400 jobs · $133k median
  2. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN3,160 jobs · $98k median
  3. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX2,240 jobs · $80k median
  4. Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ1,770 jobs · $80k median
  5. Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC1,670 jobs · $105k median
  6. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA1,630 jobs · $106k median
  7. Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO1,550 jobs · $101k median
  8. Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD1,380 jobs · $80k median

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Pay and outlook from BLS (OEWS 2025, Employment Projections 2025-2035). Skills and work activities from O*NET 30.3. AI exposure and future-proof scores are modeled estimates. How these numbers are made.