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Financial Managers pay in Montana and New York
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Financial Managers is $131,060 per year in Montana. It is $219,880 per year in New York. Montana is 40.4% below New York on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 11-3031 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 1,510 wage and salary jobs in Montana and 80,810 in New York. 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