Financial Examiners Career, Salary and Skills
Financial Examiners have a BLS-reported national median annual wage of $94,160 based on the 2025 OEWS dataset, with reported national employment of 67,830. Wage data is published for 185 locations.
Occupation description
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
Typical education
Bachelor's Degree
Experience
None
National salary and employment
Median annual
$94,160
Hourly median
$45.27
Employment
67,830
Data year
2025
National salary distribution
$56,230
10th
$70,660
25th
$94,160
Median
$129,600
75th
$174,200
90th
Top skills
| Skill | Importance | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Reading Comprehension | 4.12 | 4.25 |
| Critical Thinking | 4.12 | 4.50 |
| Speaking | 4.00 | 4.12 |
| Active Listening | 4.00 | 4.12 |
| Writing | 4.00 | 4.00 |
| Monitoring | 3.88 | 4.25 |
| Complex Problem Solving | 3.88 | 4.00 |
| Judgment and Decision Making | 3.88 | 4.12 |
| Mathematics | 3.62 | 3.88 |
| Active Learning | 3.62 | 4.12 |
Typical tasks
- 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.
- 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.
Technology
- ACL Analytics
- Auditing software
- Financial compliance software
- Financial transaction analysis software
- General Examination System GENESYS
- Investigation management software
- LexisNexis
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office software
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Project
- Microsoft SharePoint
Financial Examiners salary by location
Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.
- Financial Examiners Salary in NYMedian $128,920 · Employment 13,480
- Financial Examiners Salary in New York, NYMedian $133,380 · Employment 13,400
- Financial Examiners Salary in TXMedian $78,140 · Employment 5,230
- Financial Examiners Salary in CAMedian $106,000 · Employment 4,200
- Financial Examiners Salary in FLMedian $76,230 · Employment 4,190
- Financial Examiners Salary in ILMedian $93,150 · Employment 4,050
- Financial Examiners Salary in OHMedian $69,040 · Employment 3,680
- Financial Examiners Salary in Chicago, ILMedian $98,470 · Employment 3,160
- Financial Examiners Salary in NCMedian $100,730 · Employment 2,610
- Financial Examiners Salary in PAMedian $78,500 · Employment 2,590
- Financial Examiners Salary in MOMedian $79,990 · Employment 2,290
- Financial Examiners Salary in Dallas, TXMedian $79,980 · Employment 2,240
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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.