Financial and Investment Analysts salary in Atlanta, Georgia

About 8,150 Financial and Investment Analysts work in the Atlanta metro, making it one of the larger concentrations of the role in the Southeast.

The median annual wage here was $99,540 in 2024, roughly 5% above the Georgia median of $95,180. Against the national median of $101,220, Atlanta sits about 2% below, a gap small enough that the two figures are effectively in the same range.

The spread between low and high earners is wide. Someone at the 10th percentile earned $63,010, while someone at the 90th earned $164,890. Top earners made about 2.6 times what those starting out made. That kind of range usually reflects real differences in seniority and specialization within the same job title. An entry-level analyst at a regional bank and a senior portfolio manager at a large asset manager both fall under this occupation in BLS data.

The average wage of $107,310 runs about $7,800 above the median. That gap tells us a smaller group of higher-paid analysts pulls the average up, though the effect is less pronounced here than it is nationally, where the same gap between mean and median reaches roughly $15,000.