HUMANPLACE

Occupation

Financial Quantitative Analysts

Develop quantitative techniques to inform securities investing, equities investing, pricing, or valuation of financial instruments. Develop mathematical or statistical models for risk management, asset optimization, pricing, or relative value analysis.

96 AI exposure
15 Human advantage
60 Market demand
60 AI leverage

Is Financial Quantitative Analysts a safe career from AI?

Financial Quantitative Analysts scores 96 out of 100 for AI exposure, which is high. A large share of this work is the kind current AI systems are measurably good at. That is not a prediction the job disappears, and the research does not support one. It means more of this role is likely to change than most.

Its human advantage score is 15, which is low. Most of this role can be done through a screen, and that is the half of the labor market AI has reached first. Market demand scores 60 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment roughly flat over ten years.

What Financial Quantitative Analysts pay

The median wage is $80,190 a year. The lower quarter earns under $60,140 and the upper quarter over $109,120. About 127,450 people do this work in the United States.

Where Financial Quantitative Analysts can go next

Occupations that share most of what this job already requires, ranked by how much carries over.

Investment Fund Managers 90% of the skills carry over $162k median
Actuaries 91% of the skills carry over $126k median
Chief Sustainability Officers 78% of the skills carry over $206k median
Computer and Information Systems Managers 79% of the skills carry over $171k median

Thinking about moving out of Financial Quantitative Analysts?

Answer three questions and see which jobs you could move into, what carries over from your own experience, and who is hiring.

Show me where to go

Where this comes from

Work content and transitions from O*NET, the US Department of Labor's occupational database. Wages and employment projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. AI exposure from published research measuring which occupations current AI capabilities overlap with. None of it is a forecast, and none of these numbers are ours: they are public data, put next to each other.

Check a different job