Proud to work here! - Anonymous employee Equitable Advisors Employee Review

5.0
May 14, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Thoroughly enjoy working at this firm. I love the people I am able to meet and collaborate with across the branches. Great benefits and perks outside of work through the firm. A lot of flexibility and opportunity to create your own path and was able to quickly adapt to working from home due to COVID-19 outbreak. It's a challenging business and it's very fast paced, which is not for everyone, but if that's your "cup of tea", highly recommend taking a look.

Cons

Compensation is fair compared to your market; but would always recommend paying more if you want to retain top talent. Promotions are few and far between for some departments but you are able to move within the firm fairly easily for new opportunities.

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5.0
Jul 2, 2026
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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
Jun 26, 2026
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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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