Headline risk
5%
Low RiskFinancial examiners
United States AI Work Index tracks this occupation on the shared structural baseline and then layers on local demand resilience, wages, and confidence.
Why This Score
Share of job tasks that overlap with current AI capabilities
Median annual wage
Projected employment change over 10 years
Typical preparation needed for this occupation
Occupation profile
Enforce or ensure compliance with laws and regulations governing financial and securities institutions and financial and real estate transactions. May examine, verify, or authenticate records.
Task evidence
100% weighted task match · 5% effective coverage
Scores combine AI task overlap, human advantages, and local demand. How it works
United States Now
Median Wage
USD 90,400
Employment 2024
65.1K
Projected Change (2024–34)
18.5%
Openings (2024–34)
5.7K
Wage distribution
Demand outlook
Employment of financial examiners is projected to grow 19 percent from 2024 to 2034, much faster than the average for all occupations.
Role Profile
Tasks
- 1. Recommend actions to ensure compliance with laws and regulations, or to protect solvency of institutions. AI use: 0%
- 2. Direct and participate in formal and informal meetings with bank directors, trustees, senior management, counsels, outside accountants, and consultants to gather information and discuss findings. AI use: 0%
- 3. Prepare reports, exhibits, and other supporting schedules that detail an institution's safety and soundness, compliance with laws and regulations, and recommended solutions to questionable financial conditions. AI use: 0%
- 4. Investigate activities of institutions to enforce laws and regulations and to ensure legality of transactions and operations or financial solvency. AI use: 0%
- 5. Plan, supervise, and review work of assigned subordinates. AI use: 0%
- 6. Review balance sheets, operating income and expense accounts, and loan documentation to confirm institution assets and liabilities. AI use: 0%
Technologies
Requirements
Work context
Worker profile
Median age 44.6 · 1.4M employed
Under 25: 3% · 25–54: 72% · 55+: 25%
Related
No direct US role match is available yet for this occupation.
Source coverage
11/11 source families · O*NET 30.2 / OEWS 2024 / ORS 2025 / OOH 2025-08-28 / Projections 2024-34 / CPS 2025 / Anthropic task penetration
Mapping quality
title_match · employment series present
Narrative & sources
Financial examiners ensure compliance with laws that govern institutions handling monetary transactions.
Most financial examiners work for the finance and insurance industry, the federal government, or state governments. Most financial examiners work full time.
Financial examiners typically need a bachelor’s degree that includes some coursework in accounting. Entry-level examiners are trained on the job by senior examiners.
The median annual wage for financial examiners was $90,400 in May 2024.
Employment of financial examiners is projected to grow 19 percent from 2024 to 2034, much faster than the average for all occupations.
Published limitations
This page shows the local country layer, not realised individual job outcomes. The global structural baseline is shared across countries; only the local demand and wage layer changes here.
Built from O*NET occupation descriptions, task statements, technology skills, work context, Job Zones, Anthropic task penetration, BLS OEWS wages, BLS projection tables, BLS ORS requirements, BLS OOH narrative content, BLS skills data, and BLS CPS occupation age tables.