State comparison · 2025
Personal Financial Advisors salary: Kentucky vs New York
Personal Financial Advisors in New York earn a median of $166,400. In Kentucky, $67,150. After cost-of-living, the gap is 51.7% — not 59.6%.
Nominal pay gap
-59.6%
Kentucky vs New York
COL-adjusted gap
-51.7%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Kentucky
Personal Financial Advisors
- Median
- $67,150
- p25
- $45,220
- p75
- $114,350
- p10
- $43,880
- p90
- $281,230
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.2
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.