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Principal Financial Group

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Principal Financial Group reviews

3.8

74% would recommend to a friend

(412 total reviews)
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Deanna Strable

81% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

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4.0
Sep 23, 2025

Data Engineer

Recommend
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Pros

Great work-life balance Caring people Growth potential

Cons

Low pay Work not as technical

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Principal Financial Group Response
9mo
Thanks for sharing your perspective. We appreciate your feedback as it helps us to grow and improve.
3.0
Sep 11, 2025

Great work environment for a price

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Pros

Lots of opportunity for growth. Very good work-life balance.

Cons

The environment at the company depends heavily on which team you are on. The pay IS below average for some roles. They use a 3rd party company for their salary data. The data from the 3rd party seems to be flawed or manipulated for some roles, as it is known that the pay is less than similar roles at other companies. They seem to just use it as an excuse to pay employees less because the data is kept from the employees intentionally.

3.0
Sep 9, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

It’s a great work life balance

Cons

Pay could be more. Below average

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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 the 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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