Occupation / job
Insurance Sales Agents
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
The $62,280 midpoint sits $5.89 an hour above the $50,020 typical American job. That is a 25% premium, and premiums are rationed: whatever rations this one is the thing standing between you and Insurance Sales Agents.
479,100 people do this work. An occupation this large has a published, well-known going rate — which means less scope to be underpaid and less scope to negotiate above it.
Selling services suits people who can explain something intangible clearly enough that a buyer will commit money to it before seeing it work.
How long it takes to become one of the 479,100 people doing this is not something we have a source for. BLS counts and pays them; it does not record how they got there, and we would rather say so than guess.
Who should not do this
At 2.1x, from $46,870 to $96,950, the two halves of Insurance Sales Agents are not really doing the same job. $4,173 a month separates them, and something other than the title explains it.
At $46,870, or $22.53 an hour, the bottom quarter of this work lands within $3,150 of the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint — an unusually solid floor.
Avoid it if variable income keeps you up at night, or if a bad quarter would be read by you as a verdict on yourself.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 479,100 is a headcount of the employed, which is a numerator without a denominator — everyone who qualified and never got hired is missing from it, and we will not estimate them to complete a percentage.
What the spread tells you
From $46,870 to $96,950 at 2.1x: something inside this occupation sorts people a long way apart. Identifying what it is — sector, employer, credential — is worth more than any general advice about Insurance Sales Agents.
Put in money rather than ratios: $46,870 at the 25th percentile, $62,280 at the midpoint, $96,950 at the 75th. $50,080 separates the quarter of Insurance Sales Agents at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
Getting to $96,950, the 75th percentile, is worth $34,670 a year more than the $62,280 midpoint and $50,080 more than the $46,870 a quarter of Insurance Sales Agents settle for.
The upper half of the middle range — $62,280 to $96,950, or $34,670 — is far longer than the lower half at $15,410. In a shape like this an average would flatter Insurance Sales Agents considerably, and would describe nobody.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $29.94 at the midpoint for Insurance Sales Agents, $22.53 at the 25th percentile and $46.61 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
What these figures are, and what they are not
Employers reported these wages for people already working as Insurance Sales Agents. The self-employed are excluded, so $62,280 does not describe an independent doing the same work.
The hourly number on this page is $62,280 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Insurance Sales Agents, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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