Pros
Paychecks every other Friday is nice. Licensing was free and has opened up new career paths for me. 5 star for Career Opportunities with better benefits and more salary elsewhere.
Cons
"Market Competitive Salaries" is most likely just for execs. Look at the newswire for Advisor Group and every 2-6 months more rehashed execs are coming over from LPL, RBC, etc and probably getting stock options and gigantic salaries. Anyone else expect to be underpaid based on the industry. HR will tell you we use a reputable company- not Glassdoor- to determine we are competitive. Anyone could go out and look now on job sites -companies actually just publish their ranges thanks to CO law. This has gotten really contentious in meetings I have attended where co-workers will openly yell at managers about our low pay. This has even happened in company-wide zooms. There is a chart showing how much in benefits you pay vs. what AG covers on the benefit site... it makes it look like AG covers so much! Hover over the numbers and it's about 60/40 and makes me laugh every time. Every year it gets progressively worse for employees. They brag about the PTO, sick days and holidays- this is lipstick on a pig- because it costs the PE backers no money- and adds more work to the already short-staffed departments.