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Financial and Investment Analysts pay in Rhode Island and Wyoming
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Financial and Investment Analysts is $100,550 per year in Rhode Island. It is $187,090 per year in Wyoming. Rhode Island is 46.3% below Wyoming on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 13-2051 and the same annual wage metric. Median means the middle of each area's published wage spread. It is not one worker's pay. The larger median is not proof that one place gives a better job or a better result. It is one wage fact from one source period.
BLS lists 1,790 wage and salary jobs in Rhode Island and 190 in Wyoming. Those are survey job counts, not open posts. Read pay, job scale, local share, and price level as separate facts before you make a choice.
Evidence: bls-oews-may-2025 · Rule: same-soc-same-metric-pair · nominal-median-gap · employment-not-openings