This place is Electric - Financial Advisor Equitable Advisors Employee Review

5.0
Sep 22, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

If you are truly someone who wants to control your own destiny, be competitive, and surround yourself with like minded people. This is the career for you. I use to work a salary job and hated that no matter how hard I worked I got a 3-4% raise. This career truly allows you to become the CEO and build life time relationships with a vast amount of people. All in all a very rewarding career compensation wise and relationship wise.

Cons

Look...anything good doesn't come easy. All those reviews you read about ponzee scheme or too hard to become an advisors, etc. It all honestly, those people either didn't have a vision or quite simply put couldn't make it for a variety reason. Most likely the fact that they didn't prospect and put themselves out there. The career is no doubt hard to get started. You probably work harder than most people and get paid the least, and then somewhere around the 4 year mark you work the least and get paid more than most.

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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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