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Budget Analysts · SOC 13-2031

Budget Analysts Salary in the Helena Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Helena, MT metro area

Figures describe the Helena, MT metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Helena city limits.

Median annual wage$79,700
Median hourly wage$38.32

Budget Analysts in the Helena, MT metro area earned a median of $79,700 per year ($38.32 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $63,070 at the 10th percentile to $103,530 at the 90th. BLS estimates 150 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Budget Analysts in the Helena metro area earn more than $79,700 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $79,700 and $79,700.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$63,070$79,700$79,700$79,700$103,530
Hourly$30.32$38.32$38.32$38.32$49.77

A percentile is a cut point: 25% of workers in this occupation and area earn less than the 25th-percentile wage. The median is the 50th percentile — half earn less, half earn more.

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How this area compares

  • Helena metro areathis metro area
    $79,700
  • Montanastate (MT)
    $79,700
  • United Statesnational
    $91,640

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

The median here is about the same vs Montana overall and −13% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$50,260$78,457$106,653$134,850San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR — $50,260Wilmington, NC — $59,050Kalamazoo-Portage, MI — $60,570Waco, TX — $60,840Athens-Clarke County, GA — $61,300Missoula, MT — $62,500Montgomery, AL — $65,170McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX — $65,480Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $65,950Jefferson City, MO — $67,700Wichita, KS — $68,890Winston-Salem, NC — $68,940Greensboro-High Point, NC — $68,970Jackson, MS — $71,280Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA — $71,280Macon-Bibb County, GA — $71,320Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL — $71,400Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL — $73,030Manhattan, KS — $73,920Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR — $74,180Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL — $74,550Santa Fe, NM — $74,730Rapid City, SD — $75,360Baton Rouge, LA — $75,440Green Bay, WI — $75,880Tallahassee, FL — $76,000Las Cruces, NM — $76,360Asheville, NC — $76,400Roanoke, VA — $76,600Tucson, AZ — $76,790Eugene-Springfield, OR — $76,920Ithaca, NY — $77,550Fresno, CA — $77,610El Paso, TX — $77,960State College, PA — $78,060Lincoln, NE — $78,330Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL — $78,470Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $78,850Corpus Christi, TX — $79,250Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $79,440Cheyenne, WY — $79,440Helena, MT — $79,700Dover, DE — $79,790Corvallis, OR — $79,910Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $80,100Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $80,480Raleigh-Cary, NC — $80,590Mobile, AL — $80,720Knoxville, TN — $80,870Amherst Town-Northampton, MA — $81,100Oklahoma City, OK — $81,330Shreveport-Bossier City, LA — $81,330Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $81,350Springfield, MA — $81,360Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $81,720Chattanooga, TN-GA — $81,880Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $82,130Reno, NV — $82,270North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL — $82,330Durham-Chapel Hill, NC — $82,350New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $82,360Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $82,790Lexington-Fayette, KY — $82,930Columbia, SC — $82,980Toledo, OH — $82,990Reading, PA — $83,500Greenville, NC — $83,570Naples-Marco Island, FL — $83,770Boise City, ID — $83,780Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL — $83,780Panama City-Panama City Beach, FL — $83,780Ames, IA — $84,030Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC — $84,260Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $84,450Pittsburgh, PA — $84,660Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $84,810Kansas City, MO-KS — $85,160Syracuse, NY — $85,240Clarksville, TN-KY — $85,810Gainesville, FL — $85,890Columbus, GA-AL — $85,990Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $86,200Madison, WI — $86,340Fairbanks-College, AK — $86,380Charlottesville, VA — $86,390Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $86,530Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $86,610Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL — $86,880Worcester, MA — $87,210Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $87,240Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $87,280Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $87,760Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $87,770Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $87,860Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $88,460Trenton-Princeton, NJ — $88,530Birmingham, AL — $88,550Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $88,690Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA — $88,810Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $88,880Rochester, NY — $88,890Jacksonville, FL — $89,040Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $89,410Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $90,020Cleveland, OH — $90,940Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA — $91,060Killeen-Temple, TX — $91,170Portland-South Portland, ME — $91,220York-Hanover, PA — $91,250Topeka, KS — $91,350Omaha, NE-IA — $91,450Elizabethtown, KY — $91,560Warner Robins, GA — $91,560Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $91,920San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $92,000Urban Honolulu, HI — $92,520Richmond, VA — $92,550Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $93,450Colorado Springs, CO — $93,530Carson City, NV — $93,560Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $93,600Columbus, OH — $93,780Ogden, UT — $94,520Savannah, GA — $94,520Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $95,200Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $95,400Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $95,620Fort Collins-Loveland, CO — $95,860Stockton-Lodi, CA — $95,870Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX — $95,930Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $96,150Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $96,210Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $96,260New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $96,340Lansing-East Lansing, MI — $96,430Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $96,430Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $96,870Anchorage, AK — $96,890St. Louis, MO-IL — $96,930Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $97,190Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC — $97,470Albuquerque, NM — $97,780Visalia, CA — $97,970Tulsa, OK — $97,980Burlington-South Burlington, VT — $98,070Salem, OR — $98,110Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $98,330Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $98,330Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY — $98,590Vallejo, CA — $98,590Kennewick-Richland, WA — $98,750Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $99,370Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $99,880Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $100,720Fayetteville, NC — $101,360New Haven, CT — $101,500Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL — $102,020Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $102,080Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT — $102,260Modesto, CA — $102,480Boulder, CO — $102,760Greeley, CO — $103,720Salinas, CA — $103,970Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $104,090Lexington Park, MD — $106,280Gainesville, GA — $106,610San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $107,010Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA — $110,470Huntsville, AL — $113,400San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $117,360Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $125,050Ann Arbor, MI — $127,860San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $131,730Iowa City, IA — $134,850

Each dot is one metro area with a published median — hover any dot for the name and figure. Metros without published estimates are not drawn.

The Helena metro area has the 133rd-highest published median for this occupation among the 174 metro areas where BLS publishes it. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Other metro areas in Montana

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for budget analysts, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • Helena metro areathis page
    $79,700
  • Missoula metro area
    $62,500

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

Keep exploring

Other occupations in the same SOC group with published medians here, largest employment first:

Business Operations Specialists, All Other$80,410Accountants and Auditors$76,700Compliance Officers$63,740Project Management Specialists$102,970Human Resources Specialists$78,020Claims Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators$81,080

Highest-paying metro areas for budget analystss · Highest-paying occupations in Helena Metro

About this estimate

These figures are survey estimates from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program — modeled from employer reports collected over three years and benchmarked to May 2025. They describe what employers in this area currently pay across all industries, not what any individual worker will be offered.

Employment counts wage-and-salary jobs in the occupation (self-employed workers are excluded). Estimates carry sampling error; percentile wages are rounded by BLS. Some values are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality or quality — suppressed values appear here as “not published”, never as zero. Read the full methodology.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.