Financial Examiners — Career Decision Dashboard
United States
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Report generated from official BLS OEWS and O*NET data — United States.
Median annual wage
$94,160
United States, 2025
Employment
67,830
United States, 2025
Typical education
Bachelor's Degree
Job Zone 4
Skills identified
35
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Career overview
Enforce or ensure compliance with laws and regulations governing financial and securities institutions and financial and real estate transactions. May examine, verify, or authenticate records.
- O*NET code
- 13-2061.00
- Job zone
- 4
- Experience required
- None
Typical tasks
- Direct and participate in formal and informal meetings with bank directors, trustees, senior management, counsels, outside accountants, and consultants to gather information and discuss findings.
- Recommend actions to ensure compliance with laws and regulations, or to protect solvency of institutions.
- Prepare reports, exhibits, and other supporting schedules that detail an institution's safety and soundness, compliance with laws and regulations, and recommended solutions to questionable financial conditions.
- Resolve problems concerning the overall financial integrity of banking institutions including loan investment portfolios, capital, earnings, and specific or large troubled accounts.
- Investigate activities of institutions to enforce laws and regulations and to ensure legality of transactions and operations or financial solvency.
- Review balance sheets, operating income and expense accounts, and loan documentation to confirm institution assets and liabilities.
- Plan, supervise, and review work of assigned subordinates.
- Review audit reports of internal and external auditors to monitor adequacy of scope of reports or to discover specific weaknesses in internal routines.
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Salary analysis — United States
10th percentile
$56,230
25th percentile
$70,660
75th percentile
$129,600
90th percentile
$174,200
Most important skills
- Reading Comprehension4.1
- Critical Thinking4.1
- Active Listening4.0
- Writing4.0
- Speaking4.0
- Complex Problem Solving3.9
- Monitoring3.9
- Judgment and Decision Making3.9
- Systems Evaluation3.6
- Systems Analysis3.6
- Social Perceptiveness3.6
- Coordination3.6
What skills do you need?
Select the skills you already have
Skills listed are those O*NET rates at importance 3.0 or above for this occupation. Set your own level on the same 0–7 O*NET scale.
Skill coverage
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0 of 19 identified skills
Matched
0
Missing
19
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Skills to develop
| Skill | Importance | Required level | Your level | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Critical Thinking | 4.1 | 4.5 | Not selected | 4.5 |
| Reading Comprehension | 4.1 | 4.3 | Not selected | 4.3 |
| Monitoring | 3.9 | 4.3 | Not selected | 4.3 |
| Active Listening | 4.0 | 4.1 | Not selected | 4.1 |
| Speaking | 4.0 | 4.1 | Not selected | 4.1 |
| Writing | 4.0 | 4.0 | Not selected | 4.0 |
| Judgment and Decision Making | 3.9 | 4.1 | Not selected | 4.1 |
| Complex Problem Solving | 3.9 | 4.0 | Not selected | 4.0 |
| Active Learning | 3.6 | 4.1 | Not selected | 4.1 |
| Systems Evaluation | 3.6 | 4.0 | Not selected | 4.0 |
| Systems Analysis | 3.6 | 3.9 | Not selected | 3.9 |
| Mathematics | 3.6 | 3.9 | Not selected | 3.9 |
| Management of Personnel Resources | 3.5 | 3.8 | Not selected | 3.8 |
| Time Management | 3.5 | 3.8 | Not selected | 3.8 |
| Learning Strategies | 3.4 | 3.9 | Not selected | 3.9 |
| Social Perceptiveness | 3.6 | 3.6 | Not selected | 3.6 |
| Coordination | 3.6 | 3.6 | Not selected | 3.6 |
| Instructing | 3.4 | 3.8 | Not selected | 3.8 |
| Service Orientation | 3.0 | 3.0 | Not selected | 3.0 |
Ordered by required level gap multiplied by O*NET importance. No prediction or recommendation is implied.
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Compare with Financial ExaminersHow salary varies by location
| Location | Median | Employment | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| DC | $198,720 | 470 | 2025 |
| Charleston, SC | $158,960 | 80 | 2025 |
| Washington, DC | $157,560 | 890 | 2025 |
| New York, NY | $133,380 | 13,400 | 2025 |
| San Francisco, CA | $131,820 | 750 | 2025 |
| Bridgeport, CT | $128,960 | — | 2025 |
| NY | $128,920 | 13,480 | 2025 |
| San Jose, CA | $123,750 | 190 | 2025 |
| Seattle, WA | $122,230 | 210 | 2025 |
| CT | $120,530 | — | 2025 |
| Manchester, NH | $118,190 | 50 | 2025 |
| Hartford, CT | $114,860 | 210 | 2025 |
| WA | $113,700 | 420 | 2025 |
| MA | $111,110 | 950 | 2025 |
| NJ | $106,410 | 2,190 | 2025 |
| San Diego, CA | $106,090 | 220 | 2025 |
| Los Angeles, CA | $106,000 | 1,630 | 2025 |
| CA | $106,000 | 4,200 | 2025 |
| Olympia, WA | $105,600 | 140 | 2025 |
| Charlotte, NC | $105,240 | 1,670 | 2025 |
Career transition paths
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Build a transition comparisonCareer and skills data: O*NET 31.0.
Salary and employment data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, 2025 (May 2025 release).
Figures are periodic published survey snapshots, not real-time market rates.