Financial and Investment Analysts salary in Los Angeles, California

About 14,400 Financial and Investment Analysts worked in the Los Angeles metro in 2024, making it one of the larger employment pools for the role in the country. The metro median was $102,660, which sits roughly 8% below the California median of $111,100 but about 1.4% above the national median of $101,220. For a major coastal metro, landing just above the national figure is a somewhat smaller premium than you might expect.

The gap between the average and the median offers a clearer picture. The mean annual wage was $116,110, more than $13,000 above the median. A portion of analysts at the upper end pull that figure up. At the 90th percentile, earnings reached $172,180. At the 10th percentile, they came in at $65,890. That is a range of more than $106,000 within a single metro, which reflects how different this role looks depending on the firm, the specialty, and the seniority level. A junior analyst at a smaller asset manager and a senior analyst at a private equity shop in Century City are technically in the same BLS category.

The California comparison is worth sitting with. Los Angeles runs $8,440 below the state median, while metro areas like San Francisco and San Jose tend to anchor the state figure higher. That does not mean LA pays poorly in absolute terms. It means the state median is shaped by markets with even higher concentrations of high-end financial services roles, and LA's broad mix of employers, from entertainment finance to regional banks to real estate investment firms, produces a somewhat lower midpoint.

For anyone benchmarking an offer or a raise, the p25 to p75 band is the most useful slice: $82,010 to $131,490 captures the middle half of the local distribution and reflects what most analysts in this metro actually earn.