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title: "Business Valuation Analyst"
description: "Determines what a business, ownership stake or intangible asset is worth for deals, taxes, financial reporting and lawsuits."
canonical: "https://nuecareer.com/careers/business-valuation-analyst"
last-updated: "2026-10-09T10:57:55.138Z"
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# Business Valuation Analyst

**Category:** Business and Financial Operations · **SOC code:** 13-2022 · **O\*NET-SOC code:** 13-2022.00

Determines what a business, ownership stake or intangible asset is worth for deals, taxes, financial reporting and lawsuits.

Also advertised as: Valuation Analyst; Business Appraiser; Valuation Associate; Business Valuator; Valuation Advisory Consultant.

## At a glance

- **Median annual wage:** $67,960 (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
- **Median hourly wage:** $32.67/hr
- **Wage range (10th–90th percentile):** $40,030 to $122,660, with the middle half between $50,970 and $92,760
- **Total US employment:** 57,070
- **Typical entry education:** Bachelor's
- **Preparation required:** Medium preparation — O\*NET rates this "Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed"
- **Projected growth:** +3.5% over 2025–2035 (BLS EP, 2025–2035)
- **Annual job openings:** 5,200 openings a year
- **AI-resilience score:** 23/100 — a NueCareer heuristic over O\*NET work activities and context, not a BLS or O\*NET figure

## Pay

National wage distribution, BLS OEWS, May 2025, across 57,070 US jobs.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $40,030 |
| 25th | $50,970 |
| 50th (median) | $67,960 |
| 75th | $92,760 |
| 90th | $122,660 |
| Mean (average) | $75,770 |

### Pay by state

The 15 highest-paying states, by median annual wage. The cost-of-living-adjusted column divides the state median by that state's BEA Regional Price Parity, so the columns answer different questions: the first is what the job pays there, the second is what that pay buys there.

| State | Median annual wage | Cost-of-living adjusted | Employment |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DC | $107,980 | $98,252 | 110 |
| NJ | $92,390 | $84,913 | 1,190 |
| MA | $91,750 | $86,755 | 1,100 |
| CA | $88,900 | $80,293 | 6,380 |
| CT | $86,050 | $83,052 | 630 |
| WA | $83,710 | $78,224 | 1,150 |
| MN | $83,400 | $84,566 | 1,380 |
| ME | $80,930 | $83,390 | 230 |
| AK | $80,330 | $78,479 | 200 |
| IA | $80,160 | $91,338 | 630 |
| HI | $79,860 | $72,632 | 130 |
| NY | $78,060 | $72,331 | 2,860 |
| MD | $77,610 | $73,943 | 660 |
| VA | $76,080 | $75,249 | 1,540 |
| RI | $75,900 | $74,208 | 280 |

36 more states with published wage data are omitted here. The full table for all 51 states is at https://nuecareer.com/careers/business-valuation-analyst/salary-by-state, or as JSON at https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/business-valuation-analyst.

## Outlook

BLS projects employment to move from 68,400 in the 2025–2035 base year to 70,700 by the end of the cycle — a gain of 2,400 jobs, or +3.5%. About as fast as average: 3.5% against 3.5% projected for all occupations over the same cycle. About 5,200 openings a year are expected on average, counting openings from growth as well as from workers leaving the occupation permanently. Source: BLS EP, 2025–2035.

## How to get in

- **Typical entry education:** Bachelor's degree (BLS Employment Projections).
- **Preparation level:** Medium preparation — O\*NET's preparation band for this occupation is "Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed".
- **Related work experience typically required:** None.
- **Typical on-the-job training:** Long-term on-the-job training.

### Education people in this job actually hold

O\*NET surveys incumbents, so this distribution describes who is in the job today and can differ from the BLS entry requirement above.

| Education level | Share of workers |
| --- | --- |
| Bachelor's Degree | 39.1% |
| Some College Courses | 17.4% |
| Associate's Degree or other 2-year degree | 17.4% |
| Post-Baccalaureate Certificate | 8.7% |
| Master's Degree | 8.7% |
| First Professional Degree | 8.7% |

## What the work involves

- Gather and analyze company financial statements
- Build discounted cash flow and comparable company models
- Value intangible assets such as trademarks and patents
- Research industry and economic conditions
- Write valuation reports explaining methods and conclusions
- Respond to auditor and IRS review questions
- Support expert testimony in litigation

## Skills and knowledge

### Essential skills

- Reading Comprehension — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Critical Thinking — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Writing — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Listening — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speaking — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Learning — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Mathematics — importance 2.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Monitoring — importance 2.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Transferable skills

These are the skills that carry into other occupations, and they drive the related-occupation and career-change rankings on this site.

- Complex Problem Solving — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Judgment and Decision Making — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Time Management — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Social Perceptiveness — importance 2.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Persuasion — importance 2.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Negotiation — importance 2.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Service Orientation — importance 2.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Coordination — importance 2.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Knowledge areas

- English Language — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Customer and Personal Service — importance 3.7 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Mathematics — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Administrative — importance 3.2 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Administration and Management — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Computers and Electronics — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Abilities

- Oral Comprehension — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Near Vision — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Written Comprehension — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Expression — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speech Recognition — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Deductive Reasoning — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

## Who it suits

O\*NET rates every occupation on the six Holland (RIASEC) interest areas, on a 1–7 scale. This occupation's strongest areas are Conventional (C), Enterprising (E), Investigative (I).

| Interest area | Score (1–7) |
| --- | --- |
| C — Conventional | 6.00 |
| E — Enterprising | 4.70 |
| I — Investigative | 3.60 |
| R — Realistic | 3.59 |
| A — Artistic | 2.09 |
| S — Social | 1.68 |

### Personality fit

These scores are **derived by NueCareer**, not published by any government agency: they are cosine similarities between a personality type's trait profile and this occupation's O\*NET interest and work-style ratings, expressed 0–100. Treat them as a starting point for exploration, not as evidence that a type belongs in a job.

| Type | Fit score (0–100) |
| --- | --- |
| ISTJ | 86.4 |
| ESTJ | 85.1 |
| ISFJ | 68.6 |
| INTJ | 66.2 |
| ENTJ | 66.0 |

Best-fitting types: ISTJ, ESTJ.

## Related occupations

O\*NET's primary related occupations, in its own ranked order.

- [Appraiser of Personal and Business Property](https://nuecareer.com/careers/appraiser-of-personal-and-business-property) — median $67,960
- [Appraiser and Assessor of Real Estate](https://nuecareer.com/careers/appraiser-and-assessor-of-real-estate) — median $67,960
- [Real Estate Broker](https://nuecareer.com/careers/real-estate-broker) — median $73,220
- [Real Estate Agent](https://nuecareer.com/careers/real-estate-agent) — median $52,830
- [Insurance Appraiser, Auto Damage](https://nuecareer.com/careers/insurance-appraiser-auto-damage) — median $78,240
- [Wholesale and Retail Buyer, Except Farm Products](https://nuecareer.com/careers/wholesale-and-retail-buyer) — median $77,710
- [Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/property-real-estate-and-community-association-manager) — median $69,990
- [Loan Officer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/loan-officer) — median $76,690
- [Tax Examiner and Collector, and Revenue Agent](https://nuecareer.com/careers/tax-examiner-and-collector-and-revenue-agent) — median $62,370
- [Cost Estimator](https://nuecareer.com/careers/cost-estimator) — median $78,740

## Sources

- **O\*NET** — O\*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS OEWS** — BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS EP** — BLS Employment Projections, Table 1.2, 2025–2035. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **BEA RPP** — BEA Regional Price Parities by State, 2024. https://www.bea.gov/data/prices-inflation/regional-price-parities-state-and-metro-area

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105).

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