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Business and Financial Operations

Financial Examiners

Enforce or ensure compliance with laws and regulations governing financial and securities institutions and financial and real estate transactions. May examine, verify, or authenticate records.

Also called: Bank Examiner, Bank Secrecy Act Anti-Money Laundering Officer (BSA/AML Officer), Community Reinvestment Act Officer (CRA Officer), Compliance Analyst, Compliance Specialist, Credit Union Examiner

Median pay in Greater Boston
$105,230
$50.59/hr
Jobs in Greater Boston
820
Massachusetts 2024–2034
+11.8%
80 openings a year
Typical U.S. entry requirement
Bachelor's degree
plus Long-term on-the-job training

Greater Boston: Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area, May 2025. Growth and openings: Massachusetts statewide projection.

Pay range in Greater Boston

Yearly pay in Greater Boston by percentile
10th25thMedian75th90th
$69,330$83,250$105,230$144,560$190,890

10% of workers earn less than the first figure and 10% earn more than the last.

What you’d do

  • Direct and participate in formal and informal meetings with bank directors, trustees, senior management, counsels, outside accountants, and consultants to gather information and discuss findings.
  • Recommend actions to ensure compliance with laws and regulations, or to protect solvency of institutions.
  • Prepare reports, exhibits, and other supporting schedules that detail an institution's safety and soundness, compliance with laws and regulations, and recommended solutions to questionable financial conditions.
  • Resolve problems concerning the overall financial integrity of banking institutions including loan investment portfolios, capital, earnings, and specific or large troubled accounts.
  • Investigate activities of institutions to enforce laws and regulations and to ensure legality of transactions and operations or financial solvency.
  • Review balance sheets, operating income and expense accounts, and loan documentation to confirm institution assets and liabilities.

AI and this job

AI exposure: how much of this job’s work AI tools can do or help with, based on national research. It is not a forecast of job loss.

Higher exposure93 of 100

The index averages three national research measures, each shown as a percentile of all jobs:

  • AIOE 100
  • Language-model AIOE 90
  • GPTs-are-GPTs 90

Observed AI use today: Some (Anthropic Economic Index)

This job has higher AI exposure, though observed AI use is currently some. AI tools can help with preparing reports and schedules and reviewing records for problems. Meeting with bank leaders, investigating activities, and recommending actions to protect institutions still rely on people. Massachusetts jobs are projected to grow 11.8% from 2024 to 2034.

Likely to change

  • Drafting reports and supporting schedules
  • Reviewing records for compliance problems

Still relies on people

  • Meeting with bank directors and managers
  • Investigating and recommending compliance actions

Written with AI from the data on this page. Check with a career coach before making a decision.

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Training near Boston

College and school programs in the Boston metro area that lead to this job, with 2023-24 completions (IPEDS).

29 programs near Boston (plus 18 graduate)

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