Brokerages in community banks and credit unions increased monthly gross revenue to an average of $21,799 per financial advisor in October, from $19,550 a year earlier.
Those figures include trailer and advisory fees collected by the banks.
Excluding those fees, average revenue per advisor rose to $15,661, from $14,554 in October 2005, according to Kehrer-LIMRA, a unit of LIMRA International, Windsor, Conn., which conducts the monthly survey.