Financial Services Professional

For over 180 years, New York Life has helped individuals, families, and businesses navigate life’s financial decisions through changing markets and generations.

As a Financial Professional*, you’ll play a direct role in helping people protect what matters and plan for their future, while building a practice of your own with the backing of a Fortune 100 company.

• Develop your own client base through networking, referrals, and community involvement
• Build relationships and guide clients through key financial decisions (retirement, protection, education planning)
• Offer tailored solutions across insurance and financial products
• Grow your knowledge and skills through ongoing training and real-world experience

• Be Your Own Boss: After two years of training, our agents become independent career agents and run their own businesses.
• Training & Support: Structured onboarding, licensing support, ongoing coaching and opportunities to obtain professional credentials, with prepaid tuition for eligible, participating agents pursuing approved credentials.
• Financial Support: Training subsidy available for eligible candidates during early stages
• Resources & Tools: Access to experienced professionals and institutional knowledge, proven best practices, along with sales, prospecting, and marketing tools to help you attract and retain clients through web, social, and email content.
• Products & Solutions: New York Life and its subsidiaries offer a broad range of solutions, including life insurance, annuities, long-term care insurance, disability income insurance, and investment products such as mutual funds¹ through NYLIFE Securities LLC (member FINRA and SIPC), a Licensed Insurance Agency. This range allows you to develop tailored strategies to help clients and their families achieve their financial goals.
• Career Path Flexibility: As you grow, you can specialize in areas such as wealth management, estate planning, and business solutions—or pursue leadership opportunities. You may also choose to become a financial advisor with Eagle Strategies LLC, our registered investment advisor, and offer advisory services².

• Self-motivated individuals who take initiative
• Strong communicators who enjoy building relationships
• Coachable and open to feedback
• Interested in long-term learning and growth, not just a short-term role
• You have the power to determine your own income with our commission-based compensation³
• In 2024, the average income of our financial professionals under the N8 and N9 Agent’s Contract who met annual minimum sales production requirements was $120,555⁴. Individual agent performance will determine your income.
• Benefits for eligible full-time agents include medical, dental, life and long-term disability coverages, 401(k), and pension⁵

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If you’re looking for a career where your work has real impact—and your growth is in your hands—supported by a company with a long history and a strong future, let’s start a conversation.

New York Life is a Fortune 100 company with a long history of doing good. We have been in business for 180+ years, helping generations of Americans protect their families and attain their financial goals. As a mutual company, we are accountable only to our policyholders, not to Wall Street or outside investors. We are focused on the long-term success of our clients.

• Fortune (2026):
  World’s Most Admired Companies
• Handshake (2026):
  Early Talent Award
• Seramount (2025): 100 Best Companies for Workplace Programs

• $1 billion in lifetime annuity income paid
• $7.8 billion in living benefits awarded (dividends not guaranteed)
• $1.2 trillion in life insurance protection in force⁸
• #1 largest mutual insurer in the U.S.⁹

* The terms “agent” and “financial professional” are used interchangeably and refer to someone who is in a sales role under an agent contract.

1. Offered by properly licensed registered representatives…