State comparison · 2025
Personal Financial Advisors salary: Missouri vs New York
Personal Financial Advisors in New York earn a median of $166,400. In Missouri, $99,930. After cost-of-living, the gap is 28.6% — not 39.9%.
Nominal pay gap
-39.9%
Missouri vs New York
COL-adjusted gap
-28.6%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Missouri
Personal Financial Advisors
- Median
- $99,930
- p25
- $64,750
- p75
- $167,500
- p10
- $51,470
- p90
- $313,230
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.8
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- 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.