Insurance Sales Agents salary

SOC 41-3021 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$62,280

per year, nationally

Middle half

$46,870–$96,950

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

479,100

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

+3.7%

47,000 openings/yr

What the range looks like

A single median hides most of what a job pays. The bar below is the full national range: the wash spans the 10th to 90th percentile, the solid bar is the middle half, and the tick is the median.

$37,330$138,140

10th: $37,330
25th: $46,870
Median: $62,280
75th: $96,950
90th: $138,140

Getting in

Typical education to enter: High school diploma or equivalent
Related work experience: None
On-the-job training: Moderate-term on-the-job training

Entry requirements describe what is typical, not mandatory. Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34.

Where insurance sales agents earn the most

Nominal pay and pay adjusted for local prices rank states differently — a high-wage state with high costs can be worse off in real terms than a middling one. Switch between the two below.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	State	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	District of Columbia	$84,530	109.9	—	—
2	New Jersey	$81,640	108.8	11,370	0.86×
3	Rhode Island	$79,930	102.3	1,700	1.10×
4	Wisconsin	$79,450	94.1	7,860	0.87×
5	Massachusetts	$79,300	105.8	9,940	0.89×
6	Minnesota	$78,640	98.6	10,010	1.10×
7	New York	$78,110	107.9	22,420	0.75×
8	California	$76,120	110.7	41,160	0.73×
9	Connecticut	$74,840	103.6	5,230	1.00×
10	New Hampshire	$74,370	104.2	2,320	1.10×
11	Pennsylvania	$73,370	97.6	19,390	1.04×
12	South Dakota	$71,990	88.6	1,870	1.33×
13	Wyoming	$71,830	92.7	850	0.98×
14	North Dakota	$71,220	89.0	1,460	1.10×
15	Vermont	$70,720	98.0	730	0.78×
16	Colorado	$68,730	103.1	9,530	1.08×
17	Alabama	$65,510	88.8	7,430	1.14×
18	Illinois	$64,280	100.0	16,360	0.87×
19	Hawaii	$64,170	110.0	1,070	0.56×
20	Maine	$62,920	97.0	2,240	1.14×
21	Montana	$62,040	94.6	2,090	1.32×
22	Michigan	$61,900	96.2	12,160	0.90×
23	Georgia	$61,850	96.3	18,030	1.20×
24	Oregon	$61,680	103.4	5,370	0.89×
25	Nebraska	$61,590	90.1	6,160	1.95×
26	Arizona	$61,560	100.7	11,870	1.19×
27	Indiana	$61,360	93.3	10,440	1.06×
28	South Carolina	$61,350	93.7	8,220	1.16×
29	Ohio	$61,260	92.8	16,250	0.95×
30	Utah	$61,230	98.9	4,620	0.86×
31	Washington	$61,040	107.0	10,500	0.96×
32	Kentucky	$60,880	90.2	6,210	1.01×
33	Virginia	$60,520	101.1	9,480	0.75×
34	Kansas	$60,370	90.1	6,360	1.44×
35	Iowa	$60,140	87.8	6,840	1.42×
36	Florida	$59,790	103.4	47,560	1.55×
37	Missouri	$58,990	90.8	10,030	1.11×
38	North Carolina	$58,710	94.3	20,540	1.35×
39	Idaho	$58,510	95.5	3,200	1.21×
40	Maryland	$58,300	105.0	5,700	0.67×
41	Tennessee	$57,120	91.9	7,610	0.75×
42	Arkansas	$56,720	86.9	4,580	1.14×
43	Louisiana	$55,440	88.2	7,100	1.19×
44	Texas	$51,180	97.1	47,060	1.09×
45	Alaska	$50,500	102.4	540	0.54×
46	Nevada	$49,100	100.0	4,200	0.88×
47	Mississippi	$47,930	87.0	3,210	0.90×
48	Oklahoma	$47,920	87.8	5,310	1.01×
49	Delaware	$46,710	99.8	1,220	0.81×
50	West Virginia	$45,480	89.5	1,430	0.66×
51	New Mexico	$45,180	92.2	2,200	0.82×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. States where insurance sales agents wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for insurance sales agents

The 40 highest-paying metros with a published estimate. BLS suppresses roughly half of all occupation-by-metro cells, so a metro absent here has no local figure rather than a low one.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	Metro area	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$95,640	115.6	4,860	0.66×
2	Fond du Lac, WI	$95,110	91.6	120	0.90×
3	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$84,670	104.8	6,750	1.12×
4	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	$83,990	108.8	350	0.57×
5	Bloomington, IL	$82,040	93.5	780	2.87×
6	Sheboygan, WI	$81,550	94.0	100	0.56×
7	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$81,540	102.6	8,480	0.95×
8	Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI	$81,080	96.9	2,250	0.89×
9	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$80,940	106.7	2,780	0.83×
10	Madison, WI	$80,700	97.3	1,090	0.86×
11	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$80,620	112.6	21,280	0.73×
12	La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN	$80,300	91.8	130	0.51×
13	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$80,120	108.3	7,420	0.89×
14	Sioux Falls, SD-MN	$79,690	90.6	660	1.19×
15	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$79,680	107.8	440	0.70×
16	Barnstable Town, MA	$79,520	98.4	180	0.64×
17	Rochester, NY	$79,150	97.0	930	0.61×
18	Charleston-North Charleston, SC	$78,890	101.0	1,330	1.09×
19	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$78,610	101.8	1,950	0.88×
20	Green Bay, WI	$78,490	93.1	380	0.71×
21	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$77,780	110.5	840	0.85×
22	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$77,590	105.8	5,150	1.04×
23	Monroe, MI	$77,560	93.5	80	0.60×
24	Oshkosh-Neenah, WI	$77,340	92.9	200	0.68×
25	Appleton, WI	$77,250	92.4	550	1.45×
26	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$77,020	111.9	3,680	0.78×
27	Waterbury-Shelton, CT	$77,000	99.8	490	0.99×
28	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$76,870	113.6	14,680	0.76×
29	Amherst Town-Northampton, MA	$76,650	100.2	100	0.48×
30	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$76,620	102.7	2,300	1.25×
31	Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY	$76,580	109.4	490	0.59×
32	Rapid City, SD	$76,500	89.2	310	1.35×
33	Vineland, NJ	$76,480	96.0	40	0.23×
34	Jackson, MS	$76,310	89.0	760	0.91×
35	Worcester, MA	$76,200	102.5	970	0.90×
36	Anniston-Oxford, AL	$76,200	85.9	90	0.68×
37	New Haven, CT	$76,090	104.6	480	0.55×
38	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	$75,990	100.1	9,660	1.08×
39	Cheyenne, WY	$75,860	96.5	180	1.21×
40	Vallejo, CA	$75,580	108.5	220	0.49×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. Metro areas where insurance sales agents wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

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