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Financial Risk Specialists

SOC 13-2054

Model what could go wrong with a portfolio and price it before it does.

The job
Median pay
$117k
$84k to $158k typical range
Outlook, 2025 to 2035
Growing fast
+7.4% projected
Openings a year
5k
BLS projection
Typical education
Bachelor's
Our model
AI displacement risk
Moderate
How much of this job AI may do instead of the person
Works with AI
10/100
AI alongside the person rather than instead of them
AI exposure
53rd pct
More exposed than 53% of occupations · modeled estimate · 78th pct in Microsoft's data
Future-proof
59/100

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Key skills

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 York12,0601.23.0×$137k
California5,7400.30.8×$129k
Texas4,7800.30.8×$104k
Florida3,7700.40.9×$100k
North Carolina3,2000.61.6×$132k
Illinois2,9200.51.2×$104k
New Jersey2,7600.61.6×$129k
Pennsylvania2,3700.40.9×$103k
Georgia2,1800.41.1×$101k
Ohio2,1100.40.9×$99k
All 51 states
StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
Virginia1,7700.41.1×$127k
Arizona1,7000.51.3×$103k
Massachusetts1,4400.41.0×$130k
Minnesota1,1900.41.0×$105k
Delaware1,1602.45.8×$139k
Michigan1,1500.30.6×$104k
Missouri1,0700.40.9×$101k
Colorado1,0500.40.9×$120k
Washington9000.30.6×$123k
Maryland8900.30.8×$117k
Connecticut6600.40.9×$114k
Utah6300.40.9×$78k
Wisconsin6100.20.5×$98k
Nevada5700.40.9×$100k
South Carolina5600.20.6×$100k
Tennessee5400.20.4×$91k
Iowa5300.30.8×$106k
Louisiana5200.30.7×$58k
Kentucky5000.20.6×$75k
Rhode Island4500.92.2×$104k
Oregon4300.20.5×$110k
Indiana3800.10.3×$99k
Oklahoma3300.20.5×$85k
New Hampshire3000.41.1×$158k
Idaho2700.30.8×$77k
Nebraska2500.20.6×$94k
Mississippi2300.20.5×$96k
Maine2120.30.8×$141k~
Washington DC2100.30.7×$99k
Alabama1800.10.2×$82k
New Mexico1800.20.5×$87k
Wyoming1700.61.5×$120k
Arkansas1500.10.3×$66k
Kansas1500.10.3×$85k
South Dakota1300.30.7×$79k
Vermont1060.30.8×$111k~
Hawaii900.10.3×$90k
North Dakota900.20.5×$75k
Alaska500.20.4×$85k
Montana500.10.2×$101k
West Virginia500.10.2×$94k

Top metro areas

  1. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ12,770 jobs · $140k median
  2. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN2,360 jobs · $105k median
  3. Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD2,340 jobs · $131k median
  4. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX2,320 jobs · $104k median
  5. Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC1,880 jobs · $134k median
  6. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA1,540 jobs · $113k median
  7. Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA1,400 jobs · $105k median
  8. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV1,400 jobs · $127k 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.