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Insurance Sales Agents

Sales and Related · SOC 41-3021

31.9% AI Exposure — Very High
$62,280
Median Annual Salary
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O*NET Outlook
53,400
Proj. Annual Openings
479,100
Employment (OEWS 2025)
+2.6%/yr
Empl. growth (2019–2025)
68/100
AI Resiliency Score

AI exposure from the Anthropic Economic Index (2025); salary from BLS; skills from O*NET. See /sources.

Decision card

Career Evidence Passport

SOC 41-3021 evidence across exposure, wages, projections, postings, certified LCAs, skills, and transitions.

Proxy / seed data labeledDescriptive-only
SOC exposure
31.9%
Very High · Anthropic AEI
Automation friction
51/100
Moderate friction; broad SOC seed ORS job-requirements coverage.
Wages
$62,280
H-1B offered wage $73,087; LCAs are filings.
Projected openings
53,400
BLS EP 2024–2034; employment change +3.7%.
Observed/proxy demand
4
FY2025 certified LCAs; 104,660 postings in 2025.

Skill evidence

Reading ComprehensionActive ListeningSpeakingCritical ThinkingWriting
  • H-1B values are certified Labor Condition Applications, not visa approvals.
  • Job postings are seed-static / seed-derived; treat as provider-ready proxy coverage until observed provider data is wired in.
  • Transition matches are directional skill-overlap context, not placement guarantees.
  • This release is a FutureGrid broad-SOC seed derived from public BLS ORS requirement concepts and categories, not direct occupation-level ORS survey estimates. It describes job requirements, not worker ability, AI capability, or displacement probability. Automation friction is a FutureGrid derived score and should be read alongside exposure, demand, wage, and projection signals.

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Lower AI-exposure roles that reuse your skills, ranked by a transition score (skills that transfer, safety gain, pay and retraining effort).

AI Exposure Analysis

AI Exposure31.9%
AI Resiliency68/100
Exposure BandVery High
Sector Avg. Exposure27.4%

Across AI measures

Multiple exposure lenses for this occupation.

61.7%
Consensus
Actual adoption · Anthropic31.9%
AI capability · OpenAI57.6%
AI ability · AIOE95.6%
Automation baseline (2013) · Frey & Osborne92%

AI could do ~57.6% of this role but only ~31.9% is currently done with AI — a large capability-vs-adoption gap.

Top Skills

1.Reading Comprehension
2.Active Listening
3.Speaking
4.Critical Thinking
5.Writing

H-1B Visa Sponsorship Demand

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Certified H-1B Labor Condition Applications naming this occupation, FY2016–FY2025. A descriptive high-skill labor-demand signal — employer filings, not visa approvals or individual outcomes. Note: one LCA can cover multiple worker positions.

76
Decade Total (Certified LCAs)
4
FY2025 Volume
0% of all H-1B filings in FY2025
$73,087
Median Offered Wage (Latest Year)
#334 of 776
Rank by Total Volume
H-1B filing volume, FY2016–FY2025

O*NET occupation profile

What this work involves

Sell life, property, casualty, health, automotive, or other types of insurance. May refer clients to independent brokers, work as an independent broker, or be employed by an insurance company.

Common titles: Insurance Agent, Insurance Broker, Insurance Sales Agent, Sales Agent, Sales Associate, Sales Representative

Representative Tasks

  • Customize insurance programs to suit individual customers, often covering a variety of risks.
  • Sell various types of insurance policies to businesses and individuals on behalf of insurance companies, including automobile, fire, life, property, medical and dental insurance, or specialized policies, such as marine, farm/crop, and medical malpractice.
  • Explain features, advantages, and disadvantages of various policies to promote sale of insurance plans.
  • Perform administrative tasks, such as maintaining records and handling policy renewals.
  • Seek out new clients and develop clientele by networking to find new customers and generate lists of prospective clients.

Detailed Work Activities

  • Customize financial products or services to meet customer needs.
  • Sell products or services.
  • Explain financial information to customers.
  • Maintain records of sales or other business transactions.
  • Take product orders from customers.

Tools & Technologies

Adobe After Effects · hotAllied Financial Software Act4AdvisorsAMS Services AMS SagittaApple Final Cut ProApplied Systems VisionCygnus Software IncomeMaxHealthcare common procedure coding system HCPCSInsurance analysis softwareInsurance rating softwareInsurance Technologies ForeSight Enterprise

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Employment Projections & AI Exposure

15
Occupations Shown
25.5%
Avg AI Exposure
7
Bright Outlook
Horizontal bar chart showing occupations with the highest projected annual openings. Each bar length represents annual projected openings. Color uses a gradient from violet (lower) to cyan (higher). Summary statistics are shown above the chart.

Employment & Wage Trend

BLS OEWS, 2019–2025


Occupation Employment & Wage TrendMulti-year BLS OEWS history for SOC 41-3021: 2019 — employment: 410,050, median wage: $50,940; 2020 — employment: 409,950, median wage: $52,180; 2021 — employment: 422,600, median wage: $49,840; 2022 — employment: 445,540, median wage: $57,860; 2023 — employment: 457,510, median wage: $59,080; 2025 — employment: 479,100, median wage: $62,280.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS). See /sources.

Sector Comparison

MetricThis CareerSector Average
AI Exposure31.9%27.4%
OutlookBright ↗35% Bright
Median Salary$62,280N/A
AI Resiliency68/100N/A