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Principal Financial Group

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Outdated employment information - Accountant Principal Financial Group Employee Review

3.0
Sep 8, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Principal has good benefits and management is awesome. They have skip level meetings where you get to share information with upper management directly as well.

Cons

Pay. Principal is using a metric to determine pay for their employees. However, the information for my metric is for 2021 which is prior to the economic crisis we are currently in. Principal has given standard 3% raises across the company which has not keep up with the cost of living. Also, the price of benefits has increased so much that my net check is less than what it was 5 years ago despite receiving 5 raises (all 3%) since then.

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Principal Financial Group Response
10mo
Thank you for sharing your perspective. As a leading provider of retirement solutions and employee benefits, we offer our employees a competitive benefits package. One of our guiding principles of our global pay philosophy is to be market-driven. This means that total pay is set and administered in alignment with the external labor markets in which we compete for talent. We use third-party market data to help ensure base salary and incentives are appropriately aligned.

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5.0
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Pros

Great worklife balance and flexible hours

Cons

Not top end in pay within the industry

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Principal Financial Group Response
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We appreciate your feedback! Hearing that you felt supported reinforces what we're proud of—the strong community we've built together.
3.0
Jul 8, 2026
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Pros

Great opportunity to start a career. You can legitamitely move throughout the company starting with this role.

Cons

Bad contact center environment. Back to back calls every day. They only discuss call times and never what leads to the numbers.

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Principal Financial Group Response
1w
Thank you for sharing your experience. Your feedback plays a vital role in helping us improve as an employer.
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