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What financial planners make
Median
$75,000
Lower end
$50,000
Upper end
$152,000
Job Bank's national median is $36.06 an hour, about $75,000 a year full time. The top end is wide because many planners earn commissions or a percentage of the money they manage. Building a client list takes years, and the early ones can be thin.