Financial and Investment Analysts salary in North Dakota

The median wage for Financial and Investment Analysts in North Dakota was $75,000 in 2024, about 26% below the national median of $101,220. That is a large gap by any measure. Part of the story is cost of living: North Dakota's price index sits at 91.9, roughly 8% below the national baseline. After adjusting for what the money actually buys, the effective gap narrows to around 19%. Still wide, but meaningfully different from the headline number.

The spread between low and high earners is real. The bottom 10% earned $55,630; the top 10% earned $107,370. That is a difference of about $52,000 between entry-level and senior positions in the same occupation and state. The mean of $80,520 runs above the median, which tells us a smaller group of higher-paid analysts pull the average up.

Employment in this occupation is thin in North Dakota. BLS counted 330 total positions in 2024. A market that small tends to have fewer specialized roles and less competition for senior-level compensation. The kinds of jobs that hire Financial and Investment Analysts here skew toward banking, agriculture finance, and energy sector support rather than the investment banking and asset management roles that push wages up in larger metro markets.

BLS projects employment in this occupation to grow 5.7% between 2024 and 2034, an outlook category BLS describes as faster than average. For a small base, that growth rate translates to a modest number of new openings in absolute terms. We will update these figures after the next OES release in May 2026.