| Location | North Bethesda, MD |
Career With Purpose and Impact.
The most rewarding careers are about more than personal success. They're about helping people make decisions, navigate life's uncertainties, and create a stronger future for themselves and the people they care about. For over 181 years, New York Life has earned the trust of generations of clients by providing strength, stability, and guidance through every stage of life.
At New York Life, you'll have the opportunity to work with clients while making a meaningful difference in the lives of clients, families, and business owners. Every day, you'll help people prepare for what's next, protect what matters most, and pursue their financial goals with confidence.
You'll have the independence to grow your own practice, the flexibility to define your success, and the backing of a Fortune 100 company committed to helping you thrive.
Why People Choose This Career
Because it offers something increasingly rare:
The ability to own your success
The freedom to build a career around your strengths
The opportunity to make a meaningful impact on people's lives
Unlimited growth potential
The support of a company with a long-standing reputation for financial strength and integrity
This isn't simply a sales role. It's an opportunity to become a trusted resource, community leader, business owner, and financial advocate for the people you serve.
Build a career and practice that reflects your ambition, strengths, and goals—with the training, resources, and support of New York Life behind you.
Control Your Career Path: Build a career path that can evolve with you. Agents can pursue specialized markets, paths, and leadership opportunities. Where you take your career is up to you.
Training & Development: The New York Life training program, structured onboarding, licensing support, and comprehensive coaching are designed to help you build a strong foundation.
Resources & Tools: Digital, social, web, and email tools can help you expand your reach, strengthen relationships, and grow your practice.
Broad Product Solutions: A wide range of financial needs through solutions offered by New York Life and its subsidiaries, from protection to wealth accumulation to retirement strategies. This breadth allows you to develop strategies tailored to your clients’ goals, priorities, and evolving needs.
Multiple Paths for Growth: Explore specialized paths that also help you earn designations through the American College of Financial Services.
Your ambition drives the direction. Our training, resources, and support help you build toward it.
Compensation - Benefits
You have the power to determine your own income with our commission-based compensation³. Individual agent performance will determine your income. There are training subsidies available for qualified agents in your early stages.
Benefits for eligible full-time agents include medical, dental, life, and long-term disability coverages, 401(k)with a company match, and pension⁵
For more information about commission-based income and benefits for financial professionals, please follow this link: https://www.newyorklife.com/careers/financial-professionals/income-and-benefits
Compensation:$100,000+ at plan earnings
We’re looking for individuals who are motivated by growth, energized by building relationships, and ready to take ownership of their future.
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.
We’re proud to be recognized by the following organizations:¹⁰
Fortune (2026): World’s Most Admired Companies
Handshake (2026): Early Talent Award
Seramount (2025): 100 Best Companies for Workplace Programs
The results we’ve delivered for our clientsinclude:
5 million policyowners protected
$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 force
#1 largest mutual insurer in the U.S.
¹Based on revenue as reported by Fortune magazine, June/July 2025