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Principal Financial Group

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Solid Place Start - Retirement Benefits Analyst Principal Financial Group Employee Review

4.0
Feb 28, 2025
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Pros

Flexible, good benefits, leadership responsive to thoughts, great coworkers

Cons

Subpar pay, out of touch C Suite, chronically understaffed

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Principal Financial Group Response
1y
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. We appreciate hearing about your personal experience and are glad to learn that you enjoy working with your team members and our unique work perks. 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
1d
Thank you for sharing your experience. Your feedback plays a vital role in helping us improve as an employer.
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