Financial Managers Career, Salary and Skills
Financial Managers have a BLS-reported national median annual wage of $166,570 based on the 2025 OEWS dataset, with reported national employment of 841,710. Wage data is published for 444 locations.
Occupation description
Plan, direct, or coordinate accounting, investing, banking, insurance, securities, and other financial activities of a branch, office, or department of an establishment.
O*NET code
11-3031.00
Job zone
4
Typical education
Bachelor's Degree
Experience
Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years
National salary and employment
Median annual
$166,570
Hourly median
$80.08
Employment
841,710
Data year
2025
National salary distribution
Top skills
| Skill | Importance | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Reading Comprehension | 4.00 | 4.38 |
| Speaking | 4.00 | 4.12 |
| Active Listening | 4.00 | 4.38 |
| Critical Thinking | 4.00 | 4.25 |
| Monitoring | 3.75 | 4.12 |
| Writing | 3.75 | 3.62 |
| Service Orientation | 3.62 | 3.62 |
| Social Perceptiveness | 3.62 | 3.75 |
| Coordination | 3.62 | 3.75 |
| Complex Problem Solving | 3.62 | 3.88 |
Typical tasks
- Oversee the flow of cash or financial instruments.
- Plan, direct, or coordinate the activities of workers in branches, offices, or departments of establishments, such as branch banks, brokerage firms, risk and insurance departments, or credit departments.
- Recruit staff members.
- Evaluate data pertaining to costs to plan budgets.
- Oversee training programs.
- Establish procedures for custody or control of assets, records, loan collateral, or securities to ensure safekeeping.
- Communicate with stockholders or other investors to provide information or to raise capital.
- Establish and maintain relationships with individual or business customers or provide assistance with problems these customers may encounter.
Technology
- Accounts receivable software
- Adobe Acrobat
- ADP Workforce Now
- Alteryx software
- ARES Corporation PRISM Project Estimator
- Blackbaud The Raiser's Edge
- Credit management software
- Database software
- Delphi Technology
- FileMaker Pro
- Fund accounting software
- Healthcare common procedure coding system HCPCS
- Human resource information system (HRIS)
- Human resource management software HRMS
Financial Managers salary by location
Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.
- Financial Managers Salary in CAMedian $180,770 · Employment 93,310
- Financial Managers Salary in New York, NYMedian $221,010 · Employment 89,960
- Financial Managers Salary in NYMedian $219,880 · Employment 80,810
- Financial Managers Salary in TXMedian $164,860 · Employment 71,870
- Financial Managers Salary in ILMedian $165,880 · Employment 52,720
- Financial Managers Salary in FLMedian $153,280 · Employment 48,910
- Financial Managers Salary in Chicago, ILMedian $168,810 · Employment 41,590
- Financial Managers Salary in Los Angeles, CAMedian $175,310 · Employment 34,480
- Financial Managers Salary in NJMedian $199,110 · Employment 32,510
- Financial Managers Salary in PAMedian $145,610 · Employment 32,180
- Financial Managers Salary in OHMedian $140,870 · Employment 27,360
- Financial Managers Salary in Dallas, TXMedian $169,200 · Employment 26,600
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Career and skills data: O*NET 31.0 (onetcenter.org). Salary and employment data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS, 2025 (bls.gov/oes). Figures are published survey estimates, not real-time market data.