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National Career Cluster · the map of work

Financial Services is one of the 14 national career clusters — the U.S. Department of Education's map that divides the whole world of work into broad families, each crosswalked to occupations, education programs, and industries. This cluster spans 40 occupations across 5 sub-clusters, employing about 8,526,600 workers, with a median wage of $71,885.

What's in this cluster

A career cluster is a navigational grouping, not a measured score. The counts below come from the framework's official crosswalk; employment and pay are aggregated from BLS OEWS (national, cross-industry, May 2024) across the occupations in the cluster.

40 occupations
5 sub-clusters
8,526,600 workers (BLS)
$71,885 median pay
66 education programs

Across occupations with wage data, the middle range (25th–75th percentile of occupation medians) runs $50,540 – $81,148. This describes the cluster, not any one job or person.

Sub-clusters

The framework splits each cluster into sub-clusters — tighter families of related work. The count is the number of occupations the crosswalk places in each.

Sub-cluster Occupations
Financial Strategy & Investments 14
Insurance 12
Accounting 7
Banking & Credit 7
Real Estate 4

Largest occupations in this cluster

Exposure quadrant: AI task-overlap percentile vs Median pay AI task-overlap (horizontal) versus median pay (vertical), each as a percentile across all scored occupations, for 38 occupations in Financial Services. Overlap measures shared tasks with AI, not automation. Lower overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · lower pay Lower overlap · lower pay Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers Tellers Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers Compliance Officers Fundraising Managers Financial Examiners Billing and Posting Clerks Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks Bill and Account Collectors Real Estate Brokers Financial Risk Specialists Accountants and Auditors Insurance Sales Agents Brokerage Clerks Statistical Assistants AI task-overlap percentile → ↑ Median pay
The largest occupations in this cluster with both an AI task-overlap score and a wage, plotted by task-overlap percentile (horizontal) and median-pay percentile (vertical). Overlap measures shared tasks with AI, not automation.

Occupations in this cluster with the most workers nationally (BLS OEWS, May 2024), each linked to its full profile. Employment and pay describe the occupation, not an individual.

Occupation Workers Median pay
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks 1,455,770 $49,210
Accountants and Auditors 1,448,290 $81,680
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents 472,300 $78,140
Insurance Sales Agents 469,480 $60,370
Billing and Posting Clerks 417,500 $47,170
Compliance Officers 397,770 $78,420
Financial and Investment Analysts 340,580 $101,350
Tellers 339,340 $39,340
Claims Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators 305,020 $76,790
Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers 296,640 $66,700
Loan Officers 290,530 $74,180
Personal Financial Advisors 270,480 $102,140
Data Scientists 233,440 $112,590
Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks 229,070 $48,450
Real Estate Sales Agents 190,600 $56,320
Loan Interviewers and Clerks 173,100 $48,950
Bill and Account Collectors 165,020 $46,040
Financial Specialists, All Other 127,450 $80,190
Insurance Underwriters 107,820 $79,880
Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists 102,370 $77,020
Tax Preparers 73,570 $50,560
Credit Analysts 67,370 $80,970
Financial Examiners 62,830 $90,400
Property Appraisers and Assessors 59,070 $65,420
Financial Risk Specialists 56,320 $106,000
Real Estate Brokers 49,590 $72,280
Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers 48,170 $54,980
Brokerage Clerks 40,090 $62,940
New Accounts Clerks 38,030 $46,610
Financial Clerks, All Other 37,030 $52,150
Fundraising Managers 36,920 $123,480
Statisticians 29,800 $103,300
Actuaries 28,340 $125,770
Credit Counselors 28,110 $50,480
Credit Authorizers, Checkers, and Clerks 11,960 $49,130
Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage 7,790 $76,650
Correspondence Clerks 6,260 $46,740
Statistical Assistants 5,900 $51,440
Mathematical Science Occupations, All Other 4,660 $71,490
Mathematicians 2,220 $121,680

AI exposure across this cluster

Two published studies estimate how exposed each occupation is to today's AI. The OpenAI "GPTs are GPTs" study rates the share of an occupation's tasks a large language model (with tools) could speed up by half or more; averaged across this cluster it is 55% — 89th percentile of the 14 clusters. The independent Felten/Raj/Seamans AI Occupational Exposure index averages 1.25 here.

Computed across the 38 of 40 occupations in this cluster that carry a published exposure score.

Exposure measures where AI could assist tasks — it is not a prediction that these jobs will be automated. High exposure most often means augmentation (faster work), and many high-exposure occupations are also projected to grow.

Where the work sits

The framework anchors each cluster to one or more NAICS industry sectors — the parts of the economy where this work concentrates.

Education programs that lead here

A sample of the 66 CIP 2020 instructional programs the framework crosswalks to this cluster — the fields of study that prepare people for this work.

  • Accounting
  • Accounting Technology/Technician and Bookkeeping
  • Accounting and Business/Management
  • Accounting and Computer Science
  • Accounting and Finance
  • Actuarial Science
  • Applied Mathematics, General
  • Applied Mathematics, Other
  • Applied Statistics, General
  • Art History, Criticism and Conservation
  • Auditing
  • Autobody/Collision and Repair Technology/Technician
  • Banking and Financial Support Services
  • Business Administration and Management, General
  • Business Statistics
  • Business and Personal/Financial Services Marketing Operations
  • Business/Commerce, General
  • Business/Managerial Economics
  • Communication Management and Strategic Communications
  • Communication, General
  • Computational Mathematics
  • Computational Science
  • Computational and Applied Mathematics
  • Credit Management

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 3, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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Singulariki. "Financial Services." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; Census NAICS 2022; CIP-2020 2020; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/clusters/financial-services

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Singulariki. (2026). Financial Services. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/clusters/financial-services

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