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title: "Financial Manager"
description: "Plan, direct, or coordinate accounting, investing, banking, insurance, securities, and other financial activities of a branch, office, or department of…"
canonical: "https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-manager"
last-updated: "2026-08-23T15:56:39.581Z"
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# Financial Manager

**Category:** Management · **SOC code:** 11-3031 · **O\*NET-SOC code:** 11-3031.00

Plan, direct, or coordinate accounting, investing, banking, insurance, securities, and other financial activities of a branch, office, or department of an establishment.

Also advertised as: Accounting Supervisor; Banking Center Manager (BCM); Branch Manager; Business Banking Manager; Credit Administration Manager; Credit Manager; Financial Center Manager; Financial Planning Manager.

## At a glance

- **Median annual wage:** $166,570 (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
- **Median hourly wage:** $80.08/hr
- **Wage range (10th–90th percentile):** $94,310 to $323,270, with the middle half between $125,490 and $219,980
- **Total US employment:** 841,710
- **Typical entry education:** Bachelor's
- **Preparation required:** Medium preparation — O\*NET rates this "Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed"
- **Projected growth:** +14.8% over 2024–2034 (BLS EP, 2024–2034)
- **Annual job openings:** 74,600 openings a year
- **AI-resilience score:** 24/100 — 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 841,710 US jobs.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $94,310 |
| 25th | $125,490 |
| 50th (median) | $166,570 |
| 75th | $219,980 |
| 90th | $323,270 |
| Mean (average) | $186,910 |

### 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| NY | $219,880 | $203,742 | 80,810 |
| MA | $206,760 | $195,505 | 26,150 |
| NJ | $199,110 | $182,997 | 32,510 |
| DC | $188,880 | $171,864 | 8,930 |
| VA | $185,220 | $183,197 | 20,850 |
| CO | $182,690 | $177,279 | 10,640 |
| DE | $181,580 | $181,929 | 2,810 |
| CA | $180,770 | $163,268 | 93,310 |
| WA | $174,840 | $163,382 | 12,930 |
| CT | $174,830 | $168,739 | 20,040 |
| RI | $166,940 | $163,219 | 2,570 |
| GA | $166,790 | $173,211 | 21,390 |
| NC | $166,780 | $176,812 | 22,460 |
| IL | $165,880 | $165,950 | 52,720 |
| TX | $164,860 | $169,859 | 71,870 |

39 more states with published wage data are omitted here. The full table for all 54 states is at https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-manager/salary-by-state, or as JSON at https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/financial-manager.

## Outlook

BLS projects employment to move from 868,600 in the 2024–2034 base year to 997,400 by the end of the cycle — a gain of 128,800 jobs, or +14.8%. Much faster than average: 14.8% against 3.1% projected for all occupations over the same cycle. About 74,600 openings a year are expected on average, counting openings from growth as well as from workers leaving the occupation permanently. Source: BLS EP, 2024–2034.

## 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:** 5 years or more.
- **Typical on-the-job training:** None.

### 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 | 56.3% |
| Post-Baccalaureate Certificate | 21.0% |
| High School Diploma | 14.2% |
| Some College Courses | 4.6% |
| Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree) | 3.9% |

## What the work involves

- Recruit staff members.
- Establish and maintain relationships with individual or business customers or provide assistance with problems these customers may encounter.
- 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.
- Oversee training programs.
- Oversee the flow of cash or financial instruments.
- Evaluate data pertaining to costs to plan budgets.

## Skills and knowledge

### Essential skills

- Reading Comprehension — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Listening — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speaking — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Critical Thinking — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Writing — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Monitoring — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Mathematics — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Learning — importance 3.5 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.

- Social Perceptiveness — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Coordination — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Service Orientation — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Complex Problem Solving — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Judgment and Decision Making — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Time Management — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Management of Personnel Resources — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Persuasion — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Knowledge areas

- Customer and Personal Service — importance 4.7 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Administration and Management — importance 4.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Economics and Accounting — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Mathematics — importance 3.7 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Administrative — importance 3.7 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Law and Government — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Abilities

- Oral Comprehension — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Written Comprehension — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Expression — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Deductive Reasoning — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speech Clarity — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Written Expression — importance 3.9 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 Enterprising (E), Conventional (C), Social (S).

| Interest area | Score (1–7) |
| --- | --- |
| E — Enterprising | 7.00 |
| C — Conventional | 5.56 |
| S — Social | 3.04 |
| I — Investigative | 2.46 |
| A — Artistic | 1.59 |
| R — Realistic | 1.36 |

### 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) |
| --- | --- |
| ESTJ | 79.6 |
| ESFJ | 77.0 |
| ENTJ | 70.5 |
| ENFJ | 65.5 |
| ISTJ | 58.7 |

Best-fitting types: ESTJ, ESFJ.

## Related occupations

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

- [Accountant](https://nuecareer.com/careers/accountant) — median $83,680
- [Financial and Investment Analyst](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-and-investment-analyst) — median $102,740
- [Financial Advisor](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-advisor) — median $105,070
- [Credit Analyst](https://nuecareer.com/careers/credit-analyst) — median $83,510
- [Loan Officer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/loan-officer) — median $76,690
- [Financial Risk Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-risk-specialist) — median $117,330
- [Security, Commodity, and Financial Services Sales Agent](https://nuecareer.com/careers/security-commodity-and-financial-services-sales-agent) — median $78,660
- [Treasurer and Controller](https://nuecareer.com/careers/treasurer-and-controller) — median $166,570
- [Financial Examiner](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-examiner) — median $94,160
- [Investment Fund Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/investment-fund-manager) — median $166,570

## Sources

- **O\*NET** — O\*NET 30.3 Database, May 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, 2024–2034. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **BLS OOH** — BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2024–2034 edition. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/
- **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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