State comparison · 2025
Personal Financial Advisors salary: Mississippi vs New York
Personal Financial Advisors in New York earn a median of $166,400. In Mississippi, $63,300. After cost-of-living, the gap is 52.8% — not 62%.
Nominal pay gap
-62%
Mississippi vs New York
COL-adjusted gap
-52.8%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Mississippi
Personal Financial Advisors
- Median
- $63,300
- p25
- $53,070
- p75
- $133,920
- p10
- $43,880
- p90
- $312,580
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 87.0
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.