State comparison · 2025
Personal Financial Advisors salary: Arkansas vs New York
Personal Financial Advisors in New York earn a median of $166,400. In Arkansas, $79,420. After cost-of-living, the gap is 40.7% — not 52.3%.
Nominal pay gap
-52.3%
Arkansas vs New York
COL-adjusted gap
-40.7%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Arkansas
Personal Financial Advisors
- Median
- $79,420
- p25
- $49,750
- p75
- $155,730
- p10
- $36,710
- p90
- $207,560
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 86.9
New York
Personal Financial Advisors
- Median
- $166,400
- p25
- $102,080
- p75
- $282,050
- p10
- $76,190
- p90
- $427,700
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 107.9
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- -75%
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. Cost-of-living adjustment from BEA Regional Price Parities (overall index). Hiring velocity from DOL OFLC public disclosure data, recent 180 days vs prior. See methodology.