It’s ok. - Personal Loan Specialist OneMain Financial Employee Review

2.0
Nov 15, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Vacation/Sick time is very generous and the base job of writing loans and collecting payments is fairly easy to grasp.

Cons

The base pay is low for all the jobs you are asked to do. Essentially, you have to be an underwriter, collector, insurance salesperson, customer service representative and financial advisor. The job should realistically be a 50k base plus commission, but it is not. You are expected to sell insurance, and have a goal to do so, even if you really shouldn’t be selling insurance, because most of us are not licensed. That’s why we cannot get a commission on credit insurance products. State law usually prohibits commissions on insurance sales if you are unlicensed. The CFPB made it pretty clear we aren’t supposed to be forcing these products onto customers, yet we are still expected to sell 1.26 products to each customer. The commissions for writing new loans (individual) and hitting delinquency (branch) used to be much better, but now hitting and exceeding goals means you’ll get a bonus of about $500-$800 per month. Nothing to really get excited about. Also, every new employee that gets hired will make more than you. The person you are expected to help and train and give up your time for comes in from the beginning making more than you. Because the yearly raises are so low, that new person who will never have as much experience as you do will always make more money than you do. Expect to work some late nights, and at least one or two Saturdays per month for collection calls.

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OneMain Financial Response
2y
Thank you for providing feedback. In addition to competitive base pay, we offer branch team members generous benefits and opportunities to earn additional compensation through cash incentive programs. We value our team members’ efforts and look for ways to engage and reward them for their hard work. - ck

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Cons

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Thank you for sharing. We are happy to hear about your positive experience.
1.0
May 19, 2026
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Pros

Your peers. I have a great group of co-workers though multiple have left because of HORRIBLE direct management in the AM department.

Cons

Low hourly pay. Tricky incentives. Shark like environment. Terrible and I mean TERRIBLE managers. Favoritism runs rampant at this place and goes unchecked. Lazy, incompetent department manager makes up his own rules (you MUST use your break time to go the bathroom) which goes endorsed by his superiors and HR. Reward people who live at that place and work insane OT hours because of the low pay, but crap on people working the normal amount of hours because you’re based on the “average”. Truly one of the worst management staffs I have ever seen coupled with lackadaisical training and one of the dumbest rules I’ve ever heard of…you must be at One Main for ONE ENTIRE YEAR before you can transfer out of the department or move up. Trust me when I say run as far away as you can from this place.

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OneMain Financial Response
1mo
Thank you for sharing your feedback. We're committed to fostering a positive and transparent workplace and value our team members input. If you'd like to provide additional details, please feel free to reach out to HR for review.
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