Financial Advisory Compensation Benchmarks

Personal Financial Advisors (SOC 13-2052)

For Financial Advisory businesses, the wage series behind the benchmark is Personal Financial Advisors (SOC 13-2052). That is the occupation whose published rates price the professional work the company sells, so the methodology selects it over a general supervisory series when the owner is the one delivering that work.

Financial Managers (SOC 11-3031)

This series is on the page because one of the work patterns below routes to it. It is a different occupation, not a second reading of the same one.

How the work pattern changes the series

The same company can price from a different wage series depending on how the owner actually spends the working week. That divergence is one reason a single published figure cannot answer the question.

• Performs the work: the owner spends most of the working week doing the trade or service the company sells.
• Splits the work: the owner both does that work and runs the business.
• Directs the work: the owner runs the business while other people do the work the company sells.

The management series runs higher because directing a staffed operation is a different and typically larger job than performing the work alone.

Businesses in this group

Every profession in this group is priced from Personal Financial Advisors (SOC 13-2052) when the owner does the work, and from Financial Managers (SOC 11-3031) when the owner directs it.

Start a report for one of these professions:

• Financial ServicesFor Financial Services businesses, the wage series behind the benchmark is Personal Financial Advisors (SOC 13-2052). Ownership by itself does not select a different series: the published data for this occupation prices the operating work the company sells. A route moves off it when the owner directs the work rather than does it, which is why the routes on this page can differ.
• Financial Advisor

Where these figures come from

The identifier beside each series is the exact OEWS series the cell was pulled from. These are national figures as published for May 2025. They are not adjusted for a local market and not aged forward to the current period.

Program documentation for these statistics: OEWS program page. Published tables for every occupation: OEWS data tables at BLS.

• BLS OEWS series OEUN000000000000013205213 carries the annual median for Personal Financial Advisors (SOC 13-2052). Cells on this page are the May 2025 estimates, retrieved 2026-07-25.
• BLS OEWS series OEUN000000000000011303113 carries the annual median for Financial Managers (SOC 11-3031). Cells on this page are the May 2025 estimates, retrieved 2026-07-25.

Does this read wrong?

Practitioners know their own trade better than a statistical table does. If the way this page describes the work does not match how the work is really done, tell us and we will fix the page.

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Related benchmarks

Other published wage series in the same occupational family, or priced by the same rule.

• Human Resources and Staffing Business Owners: Human Resources Specialists (SOC 13-1071)
• Accounting: Accountants and Auditors (SOC 13-2011)
• Event Planning: Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners (SOC 13-1121)
• Marketing Agency: Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists (SOC 13-1161)

For what the authorities actually require, start with S corp reasonable compensation: the legal standard.