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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.

AI Resistance Index 30 of 99

Changing faster than most: more resilient than 30% of the 831 careers we score. AI exposure is high (the Bureau of Labor Statistics rates it very high), and US jobs are projected to change by +9.3% by 2035, faster than average. The work leans on emotional intelligence.

AI can help with many of the tasks, and demand is still growing. Being fluent with AI is the edge here.

Median pay (2025): $94,160
Job growth to 2035: +9.3%
Openings a year: 4,500
People doing it (2025): 70,000
Usual route in: Bachelor's degree, then long on-the-job training

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Where people already use AI for this work

Advise others on legal or regulatory matters
Implement procedures or processes
Assess characteristics or impacts of regulations or policies

From Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025).

Work AI rarely helps with

Examine financial activities, operations, or systems
Monitor operations to ensure adequate performance
Coordinate activities with clients, agencies, or organizations

What the work looks like

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.

From O*NET 31.0, US Department of Labor.

What the Bureau of Labor Statistics expects

More of these jobs, as financial institutions will devote more resources to regulatory compliance, including the hiring of financial examiners.

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

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Sources: US Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections 2025 to 2035; O*NET 31.0; Microsoft Research (2025); Anthropic Economic Index (2026); Eloundou and colleagues (Science, 2024); Felten, Raj and Seamans (2023). How we score. Updated 12 October 2026.