Building a Business - Vice President Equitable Advisors Employee Review

5.0
Mar 17, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You can build your business to any level. No cap on commissions. Base salary in the first two years while building residual income. The culture and teams are incredibly close. With the virtual state of the world, we have been able to run even more meetings with very experienced advisors. Two ways to get started building your book, and neither are "who do you know". Once you build up a book, you can set your own schedule, work remote if you want, and there's no limit on time off. Love what I do, and won't do anything else. PacNW branch has the highest per capita income, and the youngest advisor force, but a business doesn't happen over night.

Cons

The first 6 months are HARD. You have to put in the work, and if you're slacking off you're going to hate it. If you're willing to put in that work and ride out the initial challenges, then you'll never do anything else.

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5.0
Apr 2, 2026
Recommend
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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.

1.0
Jun 26, 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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