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CFA Salary - does having CFA increase your salary

CFA Salary: How Much Does A CFA Charter Increase Your Pay By?

Zee Tan

17 Mar 2025

CFA, Career Advice, CFA Level 1, CFA Level 2, CFA Level 3

Will your salary increase as you go through the CFA Program?​Yes, it does. In fact, you don’t even have to wait until you become a CFA charterholder. Proper, reliable CFA salary data are hard to come by, so we started our own years ago to help our readers.  The key differentiator of our CFA salary analysis is the removal of the “work experience / seniority effect” on average total compensation, so that we can better capture the true effect of CFA Program ...