Finance jobs and conferences

Accounting, FP&A, treasury, controllership and finance leadership. Finance has about 33,334 verified open jobs on NextChapter right now, with a typical posted salary of $125,000 a year. About 29% of openings are entry or early-career level. 287 conferences are tagged to it, 200 with dates announced.

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Finance market snapshot

Every figure names its source and period. Estimates are labeled as estimates; AI exposure is what AI could do in principle, not a measured job loss.

Verified open jobs
about 33,334

Source: NextChapter job data, jobs verified live in the last 7 days.

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Typical posted salary
$125,000 a year (middle half $96,000 to $154,000)

Source: NextChapter job data: salary ranges employers posted, midpoint of each range, 1,611 of the newest 5,000 verified open jobs.

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Entry or early-career level
29% of openings

Source: NextChapter job data: level read from the full posting, newest 5,000 verified open jobs.

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Ask for AI skills
3% of openings

Source: NextChapter job data: AI-skill tagger on the posting text, newest 5,000 verified open jobs.

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Remote
4% of openings

Source: NextChapter job data, newest 5,000 verified open jobs.

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Median annual wage, Business & financial occupations
$82,660

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, national, all industries, May 2025.

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Observed AI exposure, Business & financial occupations
18% of tasks show work-related Claude usage (average across 29 occupations)

Source: Anthropic Economic Index, labor market impacts, March 2026: coverage of tasks, not job loss, estimate.

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AI task exposure, closest group (Business & financial)
54 out of 100: what AI could do in principle, not a measured job loss

Source: NextChapter White Collar Employment Report, September 2026; Eloundou et al. (2024) task-exposure score, estimate.

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Employment change, Business & financial
+10.8% from 2022 to 2026

Source: NextChapter White Collar Employment Report, September 2026, Census CPS (NextChapter calculation), January to August, 2022 and 2026.

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Unemployed 27+ weeks, last job in Business & financial
30.5% of unemployed people

Source: NextChapter White Collar Employment Report, September 2026, Census CPS (NextChapter calculation), January to August 2026, 530 respondents.

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Conferences in the catalog for Finance
287, 200 with dates announced

Source: NextChapter conference catalog, checked against each event’s own site.

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Next conference
AFP Annual Conference, Nov 8, 2026

Source: NextChapter conference catalog.

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Median published ticket price
$1,050

Source: NextChapter conference catalog, lowest published price, 92 conferences with a price.

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Open calls for speakers
19 conferences

Source: NextChapter conference catalog.

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Skills most often named in openings

  1. 1. audit9%
  2. 2. excel9%
  3. 3. accounts payable7%
  4. 4. fp&a6%
  5. 5. forecasting6%
  6. 6. accounts receivable5%
  7. 7. budgeting5%
  8. 8. erp4%

States with the most openings

  1. 1. CA12%
  2. 2. NY10%
  3. 3. TX8%
  4. 4. FL6%
  5. 5. IL5%

What Finance jobs pay

Advertised pay on live postings that state it, annual in US dollars.

Finance pay: median $120,000, middle half $87,500 to $157,500, from 6,179 postings. See also the skills that pay more.

Open Finance jobs

Verified against the employer’s own career site within the last week.

Showing the newest 15 of about 33,334 verified open jobs here. Search all jobs

Industries hiring for this function

Employers hiring

Finance jobs in the rankings

Ranked: the employers hiring the most finance jobs

Finance conferences

Conferences tagged for this function, plus events with no function tag whose attendee roles point here.

Showing 60 of 287 conferences, 200 with dates announced.

Associations and organizers

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