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Personal Financial Advisors pay in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ and Redding, CA
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Personal Financial Advisors is $170,050 per year in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. It is $93,680 per year in Redding, CA. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is 81.5% above Redding, CA on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 13-2052 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 23,980 wage and salary jobs in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ and 50 in Redding, CA. 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