Actuary
Prices risk over decades using exams-certified methods. The exam ladder is the moat and the misery.
- Pay band (est.)
- $126k–$206k
- Time to competence
- 7 years
- Licence
- Required
- Setting
- desk
- Leverage
- medium
- Place constraint
- low
- Physical demand
- 8/100
- Hours burden
- 50/100
Factor percentiles
Percentile against the whole curated set. Higher is better on that factor only.
- Play11th
Absorbing rather than merely paid.
- Specific knowledge51th
A combination of skills that is hard to copy.
- Leverage49th
Output that scales through code, media, capital or crew.
- Demand76th
Durability and shortage, scored conservatively.
- Pay88th
Mid-career floor and the range above it.
- Body97th
Inverse of physical demand and hours.
- Autonomy73th
Control of methods and time.
- People fit63th
Distance from your preferred people level.
- Place flexibility88th
Remote fit and freedom from specific metros.
- Time to skill28th
Inverse of years to competence.
- Meaning load50th
Closeness to the families you marked as meaningful. Your mapping, not ours.
- Downside tolerance96th
Inverse of named risk to body, market or platform.
Downside
Years of evening exam study; narrow set of employers.
Examine this against your weights
The percentiles above use the default weights. Set your own on the ranking and this vocation moves with them.
- Place constraint is low. Where you live is analysed at locationistics.com.
- Hours burden is 50/100 and people intensity 40/100. Who you are with is analysed at relationistics.com.
Source note: BLS OEWS May 2024, Actuaries (15-2011): median $125,770, 90th percentile $206,430. Outlook from BLS 2025-35 projections, +9.2%. Other scores editorial. All figures are estimates for comparison.