Insurance agents and financial advisors may feel crushing pressure from changes in compensation models and insurance companies' strategy.
Especially in the individual health insurance market, agents have been having a hard time persuading insurers to offer sales commissions, or even to pay the commissions already earned.
In spite of all that turmoil, from the perspective of a company that runs a job notice board for the insurance industry, the overall state of the U.S. insurance industry job market looks terrific.
|Telephone survey of 72 insurance companies
GreatInsuranceJobs.com, the Orlando, Florida-based jobs board company, recently conducted a telephone survey of 72 companies that are active in the insurance industry. Those insurers, distributors and plan administrators employ about 360,000 people, or about 10 percent of all U.S. workers.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
