Financial Planners may earn in any of the following three ways: A Planner can be paid by a salary paid by the company for which the Planner works; by fees based on an hourly rate, a flat rate, or on a percentage of the assets and/or income. By commissions paid by a third party from the products sold to clients to carry out the Financial Planning recommendations. By a combination of fees and commissions whereby fees are charged for the amount of work done to develop Financial Planning recommendations and commissions are received from any product sold. But in the future it is sure that financial planners will be paid on a fee basis just like other professions, i.e. medical, law, accountancy, etc.