A Platform for Entrepreneurs - Financial Advisor Equitable Advisors Employee Review

4.0
4 Feb 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Virtually unlimited earnings potential, support on building your practice, freedom to develop specialized areas of practice. This is one of the few places where you can make good money early in your career, doing good work for clients, without stellar academic pedigree.

Cons

Infrastructure is lacking. If you work with or for a bad manager, you have little chance. Some successful advisors are not good people, but many are - this is par for the course at any PWM firm.

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5.0
2 July 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Very fun work place and great work environment. Awesome incentive trips, great culture. Good management. Very motivational culture. Very lenient schedule depending on manager.

Cons

Bad pay within first couple of years. Back paying salary through "recovered commissions". Not much support in terms of finding clients.

1.0
26 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Complete freedom to build your book of business anmd schedule.

Cons

Horrendous place to start. Managers run their own practice and have little to no time to actually help you outside of your joint meetings so you're on your own. They only give you 2 options to get clients, cold calling or their retirement benefits group through schools. Basically the whole advising piece is to just to sell life insurance and annuities. The support staff is thin so you're kind of on your own with paperwork and compliance docs. They just genuinely offer you nothing. No help with covering costs (you pay for all your licensing and marketing materials), they even charge you for using the company laptop and fees for programs you will never use. They will mislead you about the commission payouts and you only really get something if you get them to buy an annuity or life insurance. If you also have a remaining balance of any fees when you leave, they will literally sending you threatening letters demanding the money and threaten you with claims court if you don't pay it back.

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