Pros
Benefits are about average. Home office back-up and assistance is great. Except for the Financial Advisor, the position is unsupervised.
Cons
The position has evolved from a clerk and data entry position to one in which the BOA is now responsible for ensuring regulatory compliance in many areas. The salary is not consistent with the responsibilities. BOAs are treated as the lowest rung on the ladder and paid accordingly. The financial advisors are financially trained sales people. They have no managerial skills and do not know how to work with BOAs. Stop wasting time with personality tests. The problem is not what personality types work well together, the problem is that FAs harass, demean and insult BOAs to the point of illegal verbal harassment.