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Job outlook for compliance analysts in the United States
Compliance analyst job growth summary. After extensive research, interviews, and analysis, Zippia's data science team found that:
The projected compliance analyst job growth rate is 6% from 2018-2028.
About 81,800 new jobs for compliance analysts are projected over the next decade.
Compliance analyst salaries have increased 7% for compliance analysts in the last 5 years.
There are over 146,513 compliance analysts currently employed in the United States.
There are 26,138 active compliance analyst job openings in the US.
The average compliance analyst salary is $59,108.
Are compliance analyst jobs in demand?
Compliance Analyst job and salary trends over time
Compliance Analyst jobs over time
Compliance Analyst job growth rate over time
Year  | # Of Jobs | % Of Population |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 146,513 | 0.04% |
| 2020 | 143,352 | 0.04% |
| 2019 | 139,353 | 0.04% |
| 2018 | 132,316 | 0.04% |
| 2017 | 126,502 | 0.04% |
Average compliance analyst salary over time
Compliance Analyst salary by year
| Year | Avg. Salary | Hourly Rate | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $59,108 | $28.42 | +3.0% |
| 2024 | $57,404 | $27.60 | +0.3% |
| 2023 | $57,246 | $27.52 | +1.5% |
| 2022 | $56,423 | $27.13 | +2.0% |
| 2021 | $55,317 | $26.59 | +1.4% |
Compliance Analyst jobs by state
Most common states for compliance analysts
| Rank | State | Population | # of Jobs | Employment/ 1000ppl |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | District of Columbia | 693,972 | 249 | 36% |
| 2 | Virginia | 8,470,020 | 677 | 8% |
| 3 | Massachusetts | 6,859,819 | 552 | 8% |
| 4 | Delaware | 961,939 | 78 | 8% |
| 5 | Arizona | 7,016,270 | 398 | 6% |
| 6 | Colorado | 5,607,154 | 337 | 6% |
| 7 | Utah | 3,101,833 | 172 | 6% |
| 8 | Alaska | 739,795 | 47 | 6% |
| 9 | California | 39,536,653 | 2,108 | 5% |
| 10 | New York | 19,849,399 | 899 | 5% |
| 11 | Illinois | 12,802,023 | 673 | 5% |
| 12 | North Carolina | 10,273,419 | 472 | 5% |
| 13 | Washington | 7,405,743 | 347 | 5% |
| 14 | Maryland | 6,052,177 | 327 | 5% |
| 15 | Minnesota | 5,576,606 | 295 | 5% |
| 16 | Oregon | 4,142,776 | 190 | 5% |
| 17 | Connecticut | 3,588,184 | 171 | 5% |
| 18 | North Dakota | 755,393 | 35 | 5% |
| 19 | New Jersey | 9,005,644 | 385 | 4% |
| 20 | Vermont | 623,657 | 24 | 4% |
Most common cities for compliance analysts
| Rank | City | # of Jobs | Employment/ 1000ppl | Avg. Salary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tampa | 16 | 4% | $45,911 |
| 2 | Des Moines | 9 | 4% | $52,356 |
| 3 | Little Rock | 6 | 3% | $41,325 |
| 4 | Tallahassee | 6 | 3% | $46,469 |
| 5 | Denver | 14 | 2% | $56,198 |
| 6 | Boston | 12 | 2% | $70,051 |
| 7 | Atlanta | 11 | 2% | $47,615 |
| 8 | Washington | 11 | 2% | $69,192 |
| 9 | Urban Honolulu | 6 | 2% | $55,247 |
| 10 | Baton Rouge | 5 | 2% | $49,103 |
| 11 | Phoenix | 14 | 1% | $54,025 |
| 12 | Indianapolis | 10 | 1% | $49,162 |
| 13 | Seattle | 9 | 1% | $56,985 |
| 14 | Baltimore | 7 | 1% | $65,378 |
| 15 | Sacramento | 6 | 1% | $77,537 |
| 16 | San Francisco | 6 | 1% | $79,267 |
| 17 | Chicago | 12 | 0% | $65,404 |
| 18 | New York | 12 | 0% | $65,381 |
| 19 | Los Angeles | 9 | 0% | $70,417 |
Compliance Analyst job outlook: Expert opinions
Our panel of compliance analyst experts
UMass Lowell
Merrimack College
University of Washington
University of Southern Maine
Western Kentucky University
John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Coastal Carolina University
Drexel University
University of New Mexico
University of Wyoming
Wake Forest University
University of Delaware
University of California, Irvine
Coastal Carolina University
Michael Ciuchta Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Program Coordinator, Masters of Science in EntrepreneurshipUMass Lowell
Department of Marketing, Entrepreneurship & Innovation
What Compliance Analyst skills would you recommend for someone trying to advance their career?
Michael Ciuchta Ph.D.: Obviously we are seeing a tremendous increase in AI and other digital technologies. These will become a more crucial skill set for many careers going forward. But I wouldn't downplay the role of what are traditionally seen as soft skills like empathy, communications, and judgment. Not only can these distinguish you from robots but from your human competitors as well.
What will help Compliance Analysts increase their earning potential?
Michael Ciuchta Ph.D.: If all you want is the highest potential starting salary, then you should aim for careers that offer them. But that is a shortsighted way to view things. For example, many careers that have tournament-like pay structures (think entertainment) often have very low starting salaries but the so-called winners enjoy outsized financial gains. If you are thinking about a more traditional career, I think it's important to make sure you are more valuable to your employer than they are to you. This means you have to market yourself, both to your current employer as well as to potential ones. Of course, this approach may not be for everyone and maximizing your salary potential is only one thing you should be considering when assessing job and career opportunities.
What general advice would you give to a Compliance Analyst?
Melissa Zimdars: To remember that you're going to learn a lot on the job and that failure is part of the learning process. It's okay to ask questions and to not know things, but you must be willing to take feedback, adjust, and grow.
What Compliance Analyst skills would you recommend for someone trying to advance their career?
Melissa Zimdars: - The ability to communicate effectively is an evergreen skill that only seems to be getting more important as the number of ways we communicate with each other, our supervisors, and with clients or outside stakeholders keeps expanding. - The ability to adapt to and learn how to navigate new technologies and platforms.
What will help Compliance Analysts increase their earning potential?
Victor Menaldo: Develop oral communication skills that allow you to speak in an articulate manner and organize your thoughts to signal your competence, knowledge, work ethic, and willingness to keep learning and improving.
Tove Rasmussen
LecturerUniversity of Southern Maine
Specialized Sales, Merchandising And Marketing Operations
What general advice would you give to a Compliance Analyst?
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What Compliance Analyst skills would you recommend for someone trying to advance their career?
Timothy Rich PhD: Think about the types of jobs that interest you and the skills necessary for those jobs early. So many students start thinking about post-graduation life spring their senior year, when it should be an incremental process much earlier. Another pieces of advice would be to talk to faculty and alum about your interests, find internship or research opportunities when possible, and try to figure out early your strengths and weaknesses. It's easy for students, especially high performing ones, to not fully consider what their weaknesses are. I encourage students to jot down what they see as their skills too and to share them with others. It helps them to identify what's a common skill versus something that might make them stick out.
Professor Shonna Trinch Ph.D.
ProfessorJohn Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York
Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, And Group Studies
What Compliance Analyst skills would you recommend for someone trying to advance their career?
Professor Shonna Trinch Ph.D.: Analysis and critical thinking, writing and making strong arguments are indispensable job market skills. Concepts such as 'ethnicity,' 'gender' and 'minority' are constructed in social and historical spaces and times, and students with college degrees can help de-naturalize these categories to make others understand how policy, programming and marketing might not be achieving their stated goals.
What Compliance Analyst skills would you recommend for someone trying to advance their career?
Stephanie Lain Ph.D.: I would advise graduates to be open to considering jobs in lots of different fields. The skills acquired through their major- such as problem-solving, critical thinking, and writing- are ones that transfer well to a variety of situations.
What general advice would you give to a Compliance Analyst?
Dr. Paige Novak P.E. (Minnesota), BCEE: Ask questions, stay curious and open minded, take opportunities to learn and develop new skills.
Mark Chandler
Director of Government Relations and Professor of PracticeCoastal Carolina University
Intelligence, Command Control And Information Operations
What Compliance Analyst skills would you recommend for someone trying to advance their career?
Mark Chandler: First, focus on being good at your job. Focus on learning your specific assigned area. Get the basics down – analytic skills, communication skills. Build a strong work ethic and professional foundation. If you can find a good mentor, link up with them. Be willing to go the “extra mile” in being a team player and doing things to help others on the team, and put in the hours. In intelligence, you will not always like what policy makers do or say. It’s not our job to agree or disagree with the policy, our job is to study the situation, present the facts and then present a fact-based analytic assessment. Keep opinion, bias, and politics out of our work. This will be a challenge, but it’s one you have to recognize in order to not succumb to it.
What will help Compliance Analysts increase their earning potential?
Mark Chandler: If you go into the government, you will be limited to the standard government salary. If you go into the private sector, you will start on a lower pay scale (without experience), but have the potential to exceed the government pay structure a few years into you career. Higher education will provide assistance a few years after graduation (with a BA), but won’t result in significant salary bumps. The more experience you gain, the more marketable you become.
What Compliance Analyst skills would you recommend for someone trying to advance their career?
Mark Stehr PhD: At the start of your career, it's very important to land a role where you learn a lot and find good mentors. The additional skills will pay dividends as your career progresses.
Dr. Maggie Siebert Ph.D.
Epidemiologist, NMDOHUniversity of New Mexico
Health/Medical Preparatory Programs
What will help Compliance Analysts increase their earning potential?
Dr. Maggie Siebert Ph.D.: Programming languages for reporting, querying, and optimizing/automating
What general advice would you give to a Compliance Analyst?
Dr. Mark Evans: Add value beyond what you are asked to do. Take ownership of your work. Volunteer for the most difficult jobs and clients.
What Compliance Analyst skills would you recommend for someone trying to advance their career?
Dr. Mark Evans: Don't stop learning. Treat your first job like more graduate school. Learn everything you can.
What general advice would you give to a Compliance Analyst?
Bryan Crissinger: Certainly a more advanced degree is associated with generally higher salaries. But aside from that, if one has the motivation and ability to eventually step into a leadership or administrative role, that kind of advancement would generally provide higher salary potential.
What will help Compliance Analysts increase their earning potential?
Bryan Crissinger: Generative AI seems to be a popular topic these days and so the technical skills required for the development and deployment those algorithms will continue to be in demand. Those algorithms, however, can be black boxes, and so the ability to explain how they work to stakeholders is key. More generally, the ability to understand a problem, formulate a solution, and be able to clearly communicate with others in that entire process has been identified by one of our internship employers as a very important skill.
David Feldman Ph.D.
Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy and Political Science, Director, Water UCI, Director, MPP ProgramUniversity of California, Irvine
Urban Planning and Public Policy
What skills stand out on Compliance Analyst resumes?
David Feldman Ph.D.: Succinct writing, critical thinking, strong quantitative analytical skills.
Sourav Batabyal Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Finance and EconomicsCoastal Carolina University
Finance and Economics Department
Will there be an enduring impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Compliance Analysts?
Sourav Batabyal Ph.D.: In the U.S., the first confirmed COVID-19 case was reported on January 22, 2020. Since then, this pandemic has forced us to shut down many businesses and paused many economic activities. Social distancing requirements imposed to fight the epidemic have crushed many industries including airlines, leisure & hospitality, bars & restaurants, Broadway & entertainment, etc. Unemployment peaked at 14.7% in April and then eventually fell to 7.9% in September. The colleges and universities across the country have canceled in-person classes and switched to online instruction to control coronavirus spread. On June 8, NBER announced that the U.S. economy was in recession since February. This recession is different than any other recent economic downturn. It's pegged to the global health crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act was passed by Congress with bipartisan support and signed into law by President Trump on March 27, 2020. It was an over $2 trillion economic relief package that provided direct financial assistance to American workers, families, and small businesses, and preserved jobs for American industries. The Federal Reserve lowered the target range for the federal funds rate from 0 to 1/4 percent. Interest rates near zero will likely stay in place for years, as the Federal Reserve seeks to restructure the economy characterized by low inflation and a lockdown-affected labor market. The major economies are experiencing sharp economic contractions, as evidenced by falling real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale, retail sales.
In Fall 2020, many colleges and universities announced their plans for a phased return to face-to-face (F2F) instruction. At Coastal Carolina University (CCU), we are in Phase 1 of the Coastal Comeback plan. Every one of us needs to follow the standards and guidelines for the soft comeback to F2F instruction. These standards are: wearing masks, physical and social distancing, avoid public gathering, sanitation and disinfection, personal protective equipment, health screening and monitoring, and COVID-19 testing and infection containment.
Recent graduates may find it more challenging than standard times to find their first job in a recession-hit economy. Those students who already finished an internship or have prior job experience may find it easier to be absorbed in this labor market. If they don't find the suitable jobs they are looking for, we can see a rise in graduate school enrollments in the coming semesters. The recovery process will be slower if Congress and the White House delay the second round of fiscal stimulus. It will take a long time for output to go back to the full employment level, but hiring will take momentum, once we have the vaccine and therapeutics available for everyone. The coronavirus pandemic will remain in our memories and represent not just a global health crisis, but also a cautionary tale of how society is ready to overcome such adversity in the future. Students need to be resilient, stay informed, keep faith in what they are doing; then a whole new world of opportunities will open up for them, once the pandemic is over.