Is FINRA a good company to work for?

FINRA has an overall rating of 3.8 out of 5, based on over 1,227 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has decreased by 7% over the last 12 months. 71% of employees would recommend working at FINRA to a friend and 61% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about FINRA have been left by employees working as Intern , Senior Analyst and Investigator .

Does FINRA pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, FINRA employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.8 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at FINRA. This rating has decreased by 4% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at FINRA?

71% of FINRA employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated FINRA 4.3 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.8 for culture and values and 3.4 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at FINRA?

Examiner (70) , Analyst (43) , Regulatory Analyst (36) , Principal Examiner (32) , Director (26) , Associate Principal Examiner (24) , Intern (24) , Software Developer (15) , Software Engineer (15) , Senior Analyst (13) , Senior Examiner (13) , Associate Principal Analyst (12) , Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) (12) , Associate Director (10) , Investigator (10)

What are the pros of working at FINRA according to real employee reviews?

"Great Benefits and Worklife Balance" ((in 150 reviews)); "Work life balance is good" ((in 123 reviews)); "All the people were great to work with and I enjoyed spending time with my teams." ((in 109 reviews)); "Good pay and got to experience all practices within the office" ((in 43 reviews)); "great culture and interpersonal dynamics (at least within my department within Market Reg)" ((in 33 reviews))

What are the cons of working at FINRA according to real employee reviews?

"Poor management: most have never work anywhere else so you will not learn anything about the actual industry" ((in 72 reviews)); "The manager's attuite is bad and also does not recognize your contribution." ((in 40 reviews)); "Salary is low" ((in 33 reviews)); "Senior management includes aloof and heartless executives." ((in 17 reviews)); "Awful upper management." ((in 14 reviews))

What are employees saying about FINRA layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about FINRA layoffs and their outlook for job security at FINRA in 2026.

What are the top reviewed FINRA locations?

Rockville , New York , Washington , Chicago , Los Angeles , Boca Raton , Boston , Jersey City , Denver , Woodbridge , Dallas , San Francisco , Baltimore , Atlanta , Kansas City , Gaithersburg , Columbia , Silver Spring , Maryland Park , East Brunswick , Plainfield , Whippany , Lynchburg , Richmond , Reston , Saint Louis , Brooklyn , East Meadow , Jericho , South Ozone Park

FINRA reviews

3.8

71% would recommend to a friend

(932 total reviews)

Robert W. Cook

64% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.3

Work/Life balance

3.9

Diversity & inclusion

3.8

Culture & values

3.8

Compensation and benefits

3.4

Career opportunities

3.0

Senior management

FINRA has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 932 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The FINRA employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.6 stars).

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932 reviews

4.0

Sep 29, 2008

Stable employment with solid benefits

Associate director

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

Generally solid, stable employment with excellent benefits. Good incentive compensation (bonus) plan in addition to salary. Many opportunities for training and professional development. The organization's mission (investor protection - market integrity) is not profit oriented and therefore something to be more proud of than typical public/for-profit companies. Facilities and technology support are very good. Average employee tenure is many years indicating many employees are satisfied and choose to stay.

Cons

Too much politics at high levels. Can be difficult to move within and up inside the organization. Management generally does a poor job communicating to employees. Some senior managers are not skilled with people managment but are chosen for subject matter expertise.

3.0

Jun 15, 2008

Stay for the Bene's

Examiner

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Quality of Benefits is first class.

Cons

Management is completely ignorant of the work process and evaluates all work based simply on "key performance indicators". They could care less about how employees achieve the numbers on the KPI's as long as the numbers are what they want to see. This leads to employees simply making up the numbers to fit the KPI's and the information has no relation to what is actually occurring.

5.0

Jun 15, 2008

Get to understand how Wall Street works, from the other side.

Analyst

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

A terrific place to work. FINRA has one of the best benefits packages, competitive salaries, and interesting work. Get to understand how Wall Street works from the other side. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), is the largest non-governmental regulator for all securities firms doing business in the United States. All told, FINRA oversees nearly 5,000 brokerage firms, about 173,000 branch offices and more than 677,000 registered securities representatives. FINRA has approximately 3,000 employees and operates from Washington, DC, and New York, NY, with 15 District Offices around the country.

Cons

It is a non-profit organization. The salaries are competitive and the bonuses can be generous, but still lilliputian compared to Wall Street.

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