Financial Examiners Salary in DC

In the 2025 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS dataset, Financial Examiners in DC have a median annual salary of $198,720, with 470 recorded jobs in this area. Recorded earnings range from $84,050 at the 10th percentile to $256,820 at the 90th percentile.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS · Data year: 2025 · Last updated: 2026-09-22

Salary overview

Median annual salary

$198,720

Data year: 2025

Hourly median

$95.54

Employment

470

Source

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS

Salary distribution

$84,050
10th
$134,470
25th
$198,720
Median
$239,240
75th
$256,820
90th

Local compared with national

DC

$198,720

Median annual · 2025

United States

$94,160

Median annual · 2025

The DC median is 111.0% above the national median in the available dataset (a difference of $104,560).

Top skills

  1. 1.Reading ComprehensionImportance 4.1
  2. 2.Critical ThinkingImportance 4.1
  3. 3.Active ListeningImportance 4.0
  4. 4.WritingImportance 4.0
  5. 5.SpeakingImportance 4.0
  6. 6.MonitoringImportance 3.9
  7. 7.Complex Problem SolvingImportance 3.9
  8. 8.Judgment and Decision MakingImportance 3.9
  9. 9.MathematicsImportance 3.6
  10. 10.Active LearningImportance 3.6
  11. 11.Social PerceptivenessImportance 3.6
  12. 12.CoordinationImportance 3.6

Career information

Education and experience

Typical education
Bachelor's Degree
Experience
None
Job zone
4

Technology used

  • 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
  • Microsoft Visio

Common 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.
  • Examine the minutes of meetings of directors, stockholders, and committees to investigate the specific authority extended at various levels of management.
  • Train other examiners in the financial examination process.

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