Edward Jones reviews

Red tape and inflexibility from HQ. My rating is despite me loving to work at EJ, because compensation and advancement opportunities matter, and the rest cannot make up for it. Even if you find a great branch and a great FA who wants to hire you for a permanent position, expect to go through the entire application, interview and training process again and expect HQ to try to talk your FA out of their "readiness" to hire you. The FA has to go to bat for you and justify their branch's need for your position. For job duties you are already performing and proving yourself with and your opportunity to have more input in business planning, participate in regional activities, have performance reviews and opportunities for raises, basically not to be treated like a second-class employee and non-factor within the firm. I don't recommend this path if you want to be able to advance. You'll see that Edward Jones received accolades for their bump in pay scale across the board for BOAs and that does not apply to on-call BOAs, so you'll be looking at a lower pay scale on top of what feels like gatekeeping and disrespect.

The pay. They worry about over paying us and don’t seem very concerned with underpaying us. When you become registered/licensed with a Series 7 or 66 you’re limited on how you’re able to use the licenses, but also no additional compensation for becoming licensed. The disconnect with the field and the HQ seems as bad as it has ever been. They claim to “hear us”, but the actions aren’t following OR they say that in reaction to backlash about a policy/benefits/updates. It’s frustrating for the field to say something for years only to be told “no” and then a big thing happens and forces the firm to go in the direction they kept saying “no” to. Technology is also very frustrating, but major progress in the updating of technology.