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Financial Services & Banking: jobs, conferences and layoffs

Banks, credit unions, lenders, payments, wealth and asset managers. Financial Services & Banking has about 34,072 verified open jobs on NextChapter right now, with a typical posted salary of $138,000 a year. About 34% of openings are entry or early-career level. Payroll employment in the closest BLS sector is down 1.1% over the past year (October 2026). 144 layoff notices were filed in the last 12 months. 197 conferences are tagged to it, 133 with dates announced.

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Financial Services & Banking market snapshot

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Verified open jobs
about 34,072

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

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Typical posted salary
$138,000 a year (middle half $99,000 to $185,000)

Source: NextChapter job data: salary ranges employers posted, midpoint of each range, 1,508 of the newest 5,000 verified open jobs.

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Entry or early-career level
34% 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
6% of openings

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

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Remote
8% of openings

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

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Employment, year over year
−1.1% in financial activities, the closest BLS sector

Source: BLS Current Employment Statistics, seasonally adjusted payroll employment, October 2026.

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Job openings rate
4.2% of jobs, against 3.7% a year earlier (finance and insurance, the closest BLS sector)

Source: BLS Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, seasonally adjusted, September 2026.

Layoffs and discharges rate
0.6% of employment, against 0.5% a year earlier (finance and insurance, the closest BLS sector)

Source: BLS Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, seasonally adjusted, September 2026.

Hires rate
1.6% of employment, against 2.2% a year earlier (finance and insurance, the closest BLS sector)

Source: BLS Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, seasonally adjusted, September 2026.

Layoff notices, Financial Services & Banking
144 notices naming 9,992 workers

Source: State WARN filings collected by NextChapter, last 12 months.

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States with the most notices
IA (21), NJ (19), CA (16)

Source: State WARN filings collected by NextChapter, last 12 months.

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Most recent notice
Nov 4, 2026

Source: State WARN filings collected by NextChapter.

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Conferences in the catalog for Financial Services & Banking
197, 133 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
$1,099

Source: NextChapter conference catalog, lowest published price, 61 conferences with a price.

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Open calls for speakers
10 conferences

Source: NextChapter conference catalog.

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Skills most often named in openings

  1. 1. excel5%
  2. 2. risk management5%
  3. 3. audit4%
  4. 4. onboarding2%
  5. 5. treasury2%
  6. 6. sql2%
  7. 7. project management2%
  8. 8. accounts payable2%

States with the most openings

  1. 1. NY16%
  2. 2. CA9%
  3. 3. TX7%
  4. 4. FL6%
  5. 5. IL6%

What Financial Services & Banking pays

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

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Financial Services & Banking outlook: Steady

Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers, not from our own postings. It describes the industry nationally, not any one employer.

  • Employment down 1.1% over the year in finance and insurance
  • Job openings rate 4.2%, up 0.5 points from a year ago
  • Layoffs rate 0.6%, up 0.1 points from a year ago

Where Financial Services & Banking ranks

Where Financial Services & Banking placed in our monthly rankings, month by month. Each month stays online at its own address.

November 2026

Open Financial Services & Banking jobs

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Financial Services & Banking conferences

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Showing 60 of 197 conferences, 133 with dates announced.

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Financial Services & Banking layoffs by state

Layoff notices filed in the last 12 months.

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