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What financial planners make
Median
$105,070
Bottom tenth
$50,190
Top tenth
$357,020
The national median is $105,070 a year, the bottom tenth earn $50,190 or less and the top tenth $357,020 or more, in the 2025 federal wage survey. The top figure is unusually high because many advisors are paid a share of the money they manage on top of, or instead of, a base salary. The survey counts employees, so advisors who own their own practice are not in it at all.