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title: "What can you do with a finance and accounting degree?"
description: "15 careers finance and accounting graduates commonly move into, with BLS median pay, projected growth and entry requirements for each."
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# What can you do with a finance and accounting degree?

**What the degree involves:** Financial statements, valuation, corporate finance, audit, and spreadsheet work.

Finance and accounting is one of the most directly employable majors, and the destinations cluster tightly around recording, analysing and lending money. The professional exams that come after the degree, and which one you sit, matter as much as the degree for where you end up.

15 common destinations, ordered most common first rather than highest paid first. 0 of 15 have a master's or a doctoral or professional degree as their BLS typical entry education, and 13 of 15 are projected to grow. A major is a body of study, not a job assignment: these are destinations of people who took the degree, not what the degree entitles anyone to.

| # | Occupation | Median annual wage | Projected change | Openings a year | Typical entry education |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Accountant](https://nuecareer.com/careers/accountant) | $83,680 | +4.6% | 124,200 | Bachelor's |
| 2 | [Financial and Investment Analyst](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-and-investment-analyst) | $102,740 | +5.7% | 25,100 | Bachelor's |
| 3 | [Financial Advisor](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-advisor) | $105,070 | +9.6% | 24,100 | Bachelor's |
| 4 | [Loan Officer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/loan-officer) | $76,690 | +1.7% | 20,300 | Bachelor's |
| 5 | Budget Analyst | $91,640 | +1.0% | 3,100 | Bachelor's |
| 6 | Credit Analyst | $83,510 | -4.4% | 3,700 | Bachelor's |
| 7 | Insurance Underwriter | $81,370 | -2.6% | 8,200 | Bachelor's |
| 8 | Financial Examiner | $94,160 | +18.5% | 5,700 | Bachelor's |
| 9 | [Treasurer and Controller](https://nuecareer.com/careers/treasurer-and-controller) | $166,570 | +14.8% | 74,600 | Bachelor's |
| 10 | [Financial Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-manager) | $166,570 | +14.8% | 74,600 | Bachelor's |
| 11 | Financial Risk Specialist | $117,330 | +6.5% | 4,800 | Bachelor's |
| 12 | [Security, Commodity, and Financial Services Sales Agent](https://nuecareer.com/careers/security-commodity-and-financial-services-sales-agent) | $78,660 | +3.3% | 38,100 | Bachelor's |
| 13 | Actuary | $130,000 | +21.8% | 2,400 | Bachelor's |
| 14 | Financial Quantitative Analyst | $81,100 | +3.1% | 10,300 | Bachelor's |
| 15 | [Management Analyst](https://nuecareer.com/careers/management-analyst) | $101,860 | +8.8% | 98,100 | Bachelor's |

Wages are BLS OEWS, May 2025. Projected change, annual openings and typical entry education are BLS Employment Projections. Occupation descriptions are O\*NET. Nothing on this page is estimated and no figure is generated by an AI model.

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 30.3 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).

O\*NET content is used under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). How these figures are sourced and derived: https://nuecareer.com/careers/methodology