Financial Analysts and Advisors Average Salary in Hawaii
$101,400 average · $101,400 median · BLS OEWS 2025
SOC Code: 13-2050What is this?
Combined BLS estimate across: Financial and Investment Analysts, Personal Financial Advisors, Insurance Underwriters, Financial Risk Specialists
This page shows employer-reported wages for Financial Analysts and Advisors in Hawaii, drawn from the Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS survey — median and mean pay, the full percentile distribution, and the industries that employ this occupation locally. Industry choice is the dominant pay lever: the same analyst role pays substantially more in finance, tech, or energy than in education, nonprofits, or local government. Professional credentials (CPA, PHR, PMP, CFA) reliably move workers from the median toward the 75th percentile because they are contractually required for certain work, not merely decorative.
How much do Financial Analysts and Advisors make in Hawaii?
The average financial analysts and advisors salary in Hawaii is $101,400 per year. That works out to about $48.75 per hour on average. BLS counts roughly 1,470 financial analysts and advisors jobs in Hawaii.
Mean and median are close, so pay is relatively concentrated around $101,400. Entry-level roles (10th percentile) report about $101,400; experienced workers at the 90th percentile report about $101,400 — a 0% spread from bottom to top. Figures are employer-reported wages from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program — not self-reported survey averages — so they are the right baseline for offers, raises, and relocation decisions in this market.
How Business and Financial Operations Careers Are Structured
Business and financial operations specialists — analysts, accountants, HR specialists, buyers, project managers — form the professional middle layer of nearly every industry. The work is office-based and increasingly remote-friendly, which means the geographic wage gaps shown in this data are gradually being arbitraged by remote hiring in ways the survey is only beginning to reflect.
The wage tables and percentile chart on this page show how financial analysts and advisors pay is distributed in Hawaii specifically — and because state-level wages for the same occupation routinely differ by 30% or more, the local figures here are the ones that matter for offers, raises, and relocation decisions in this market.
What Moves Pay in This Field
Industry choice is the dominant pay lever: the same analyst role pays substantially more in finance, tech, or energy than in education, nonprofits, or local government. Professional credentials (CPA, PHR, PMP, CFA) reliably move workers from the median toward the 75th percentile because they are contractually required for certain work, not merely decorative.
Entry typically requires a bachelor's degree, but the field is unusually open to career-changers because the core skills — analysis, communication, process discipline — transfer across industries. Early-career workers should weight employers by what they teach: two years in a rigorous environment moves you up this distribution faster than five in a lax one.
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What Do Financial Analysts and Advisors Do?
Financial Analysts and Advisors positions belong to the business and financial operations field. Business and financial operations specialists — analysts, accountants, HR specialists, buyers, project managers — form the professional middle layer of nearly every industry. The work is office-based and increasingly remote-friendly, which means the geographic wage gaps shown in this data are gradually being arbitraged by remote hiring in ways the survey is only beginning to reflect.
Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) Code: 13-2050
Financial Analysts and Advisors pay in Hawaii
In Hawaii, financial analysts and advisors report a median of $101,400 (about $48.75/hour) across roughly 1,470 jobs. The local pay band runs from about $101,400 at the 10th percentile to $101,400 at the 90th.
Compared with the national distribution, local industry mix and cost of living are the main reasons Hawaii wages for this occupation sit where they do — toggle Regional Price Parity on this page to see purchasing-power-adjusted pay.
What your paycheck is really worth in Hawaii
Prices in Hawaii run 10% above the national average (RPP 110.0). So a nominal salary of $101,400 has the buying power of about $92,223 in national terms.
Hawaii vs. United States for Financial Analysts and Advisors
The median financial analysts and advisors salary in Hawaii is $101,400, which is -20.1% below the national median of $126,830 (mean pay is -19.7% below the U.S. mean of $126,261). Among 51 states and D.C. with OEWS data, Hawaii ranks #44 by median wage for this occupation (near the bottom of the distribution). Hawaii accounts for about 0.0% of U.S. financial analysts and advisors employment in the latest OEWS release.
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Income reality check
The median salary for Financial Analysts and Advisors in Hawaii of $101,400 falls in the Comfortable band of this framework - roughly ~12% of the U.S. population and ~7% of the global population sit in this band.
Illustrative relative standing for education only - this ladder is a simplified framework, not an official Census, BLS, or World Bank statistical series. Salary figures on Wage Atlas come from official BLS OEWS data.
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