Not for everyone - Anonymous employee Equitable Advisors Employee Review

3.0
May 17, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The job is 100% what you make of it. If you are willing to put in the work, both on the acquisition of customers as well as in the knowledge department, you will succeed and make lots of money.

Cons

High pressure. Lots of pushy people doing things that might make you feel as if you are taking advantage of people. Commission positions are challenging in that you only eat what you kill, so closing is vital. High pressure, is yet still an understatement. It is expensive to work there. They make you purchase a terrible, awful no good computer for upwards of $1,000. You have to pay to have desk space in the office, to have access to the proprietary software, for your licenses, renewals and essentially everything.

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5.0
Apr 2, 2026
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Pros

Compensation structure, product availability, brokerage system, overall tools, open structure to do best for your clients

Cons

Support staff are more hands off, not a lot of in house support staff members.

2.0
Jun 24, 2026
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Pros

Accessible stepping stone into the industry. Flexibility

Cons

Little transparency for employees, high pressure annuities and insurance sales with little real education or support on product or sales practice knowledge. Expect long hours while you learn to do recordkeeping and support work on your own while trying to meet goals that make sense for someone with a few years of prior experience, staff to help with paperwork and recordkeeping, and a decent lead funnel. You may not get any of these depending on branch and territory but you will still have a performance goal to keep your base pay and benefits that feels absurd to the new entrants they primarily target for recruitment.

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