Portland, OR · Financial Advisors
Financial Advisors in Portland, by the numbers.
The Census Bureau counted 194 investment advice firms in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA Metro Area in 2023, employing 791 people with $86 million in annual payroll.
The local market.
Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023. Figures cover the whole metro area.
194
27th most of 354 US metro areas
791
4.1 per business, against 4.7 across all metros
$86 million
$108,731 per employee
92%
of businesses, against 93% across all metros
-11.4%
in the number of businesses (219 in 2022)
What the numbers say about Portland.
- Portland is in the top tenth of US metro areas by number of investment advice firms, 27th of 354.
- Businesses here run smaller than average: 4.1 employees each, against 4.7 across all metros.
- Pay runs below the metro average: $108,731 per employee a year, against $172,784.
- The count fell by 25 businesses since 2022.
How VERA helps financial advisors in Portland.
The same product everywhere. It prepares the work and waits for your approval before anything goes out.
Discovery meetings, booked
Publish a booking page with only the times you are free. Each booking arrives as a request you confirm, and the prospect can move it from a link.
Documents in before the review
Send each client a secure link listing the statements you need. It works only for that request and stops working when it expires.
Recaps from your own words
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Questions
Financial Advisors in Portland
How many investment advice firms are there in Portland?
194 in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA Metro Area, according to the Census Bureau's County Business Patterns for 2023. Together they employed 791 people and paid $86 million in annual payroll.
Is the Portland market for financial advisors growing?
By number of businesses it shrank between 2022 and 2023: from 219 to 194 (-11.4%).
What does VERA do for financial advisors in Portland?
VERA drafts the quotes, invoices, follow-ups and customer messages a Portland business runs on, and waits for the owner's approval before anything goes out. It is the same software everywhere; this page adds the local numbers.
Financial Advisors in other markets
Other Portland markets
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023 and 2022, metropolitan statistical areas. The Bureau adds a small amount of noise to these figures to protect individual businesses. The category counted is investment advice firms, which can be broader or narrower than the trade itself. About the data.
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