Coaching Niches
The cross-section
Moderate · Lightly worked

Financial coaching

Bounded above by regulation.

Typical annual income

$50,000 to $75,000

PayScale, Salary.com

Hourly

$100 to $200/hr

PayScale, Estimate

Depth and crowding

Moderate to enter

Lightly worked

PayScale, Estimate

The catch

Regulated neighbours set your ceiling: clients compare your fee to an adviser’s, and the line you must not cross is narrower than it looks.

Who already has the raw material

Background is the strongest single predictor of whether a niche works out, because it decides how long you spend building credibility before anyone pays you.

What buyers require first

Who the client actually is

A household or sole trader trying to change financial behaviour, not to pick investments.

Work arrives through referrals, employer wellbeing programmes and content. Picking a niche is also picking which of those you are willing to do every week for a year.

Next to it in the section

Weigh it against

Rates shown here are the headline bands. Full financial coaching rates, packages and rates by experience sit on our sister site.