Have a career that checks all your boxes.
Each day you can leverage your expertise, relationship building, and experience to help others reach their goals—as you reach yours.
Our training and development programs are among the best in the country. You’ll be backed by Northwestern Mutual at every step of your career. Your support system will include:
Onboarding to walk you through your contracting and licensing requirements1
Access to learning materials and study groups for certifications like Security Industry Essentials (SIE) Exam Series 6 or 7 and Series 63 or 66
Award-winning training programs that coach you through your first three years in business and beyond2
Access to mentorship, marketing and technology consultants, planning and investment support, collaboration opportunities, and more
All of these features and more are in support of your career in becoming a Northwestern Mutual financial advisor.
You’ll build your own business, backed by a 165+ year old Fortune 500®3 company, while helping ease the financial anxiety of the people and communities you care about.
Form lasting relationships with your clients, helping them reach goals like buying a home, sending their kids to college, and having the retirement of their dreams
Enjoy the freedom of running your own practice and being in charge of your income potential
Grow your career with proven practices and an exclusive portfolio of solutions that can put you in control of your future
At Northwestern Mutual, you’ll work for yourself, but never by yourself. You’ll have access to some of the industry’s best and brightest, whose knowledge and expertise will help you build a successful business and career. Here’s how you can do it:
Start as a financial representative focused on protecting what matters most to your clients
Become a licensed financial advisor and broaden your focus to include holistic planning that integrates growing your client’s money and protecting it
Move into leadership to build a local office the way you want, innovate through change and growth, and inspire success in others through all stages of their careers
Your earnings grow with your business.
As a business owner, your earnings are directly tied to the relationships you develop with clients and your performance. You’ll have the opportunity to earn compensation by reaching key milestones during training and then you will grow your revenue through commissions, rewards, and bonuses once established. Advisor revenue shown in the graph below is average commission based on activity.
Income growth opportunity at Northwestern Mutual
*Historical Advisor Revenue data pulled August 2024. As used here, “revenue” includes exclusively First Year and Renewal Commissions, Bonuses, Northwestern Mutual Investment Services, LLC and Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company commissions and fees, Strategic Employee Benefits Services commissions, and Expense Allowances. Data uses average revenue from 2018-2023; included revenue was positive and not equal to 0 and earned by full time, active Financial Representatives producing for the entire year each of the years data was used. First year range is $271.73-$2,923,976.22. Source: Northwestern Mutual, 2024
See what it’s like to be an advisor.
What’s in a day as a financial advisor at Northwestern Mutual? Follow Jamie throughout a typical day and see how it’s anything but.
You structure your workday to build and maintain the business you want.
Here’s a sample schedule:
7:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Coaching & Case Prep
9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
Client & Prospect Outreach
10:30 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Appointments (evening/weekend appointments may be necessary)
“With Northwestern Mutual, I'm my own business owner, which allows me to be a full-fledged entrepreneur backed by a Fortune 125 company.”
Financial Advisor
“This career has provided me with not only a huge amount of real, tangible impact on my clients and my team members and my coworkers, but also with my own family. The impact alone is huge, but then also creating the lifestyle that you want is incredible.”
Financial Advisor
“When I realized that what we do is not sales and it’s relationships, I was all in. When I started and I told my managing director that I want to be in a career where I can help people, they said let me tell you how we actually do that.”
Financial Advisor
“I would say that the culture is the single most unique thing about the company. Rarely, if ever, will you find a sales organization where everyone wants to see you succeed.”
Wealth Management Advisor
Explore opportunities in leadership.
Being a leader at Northwestern Mutual is one of the best entrepreneurial opportunities in America. A leadership role uniquely allows you to drive change and growth, inspire success in others and make profound and generational impact on people’s lives. We support leaders at all stages of their journey through leadership development programs and by investing in new markets.
We believe in developing strong leaders.
We are proud to have won a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award for Best-Led Companies in 2024! This award signifies our dedication and commitment to inspiring success in others through all stages of their careers.
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