Direct Life Insurance Carriers
This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in initially underwriting (i.e., assuming the risk and assigning premiums) annuities and life insurance policies, disability income insurance policies, and accidental death and dismemberment insurance policies. It has no schema of its own: companies here are mapped on the Financial services schema, and what it does not cover is recorded as gaps.
- Baseline
- Financial services v1
- Inherited from
- Financial services
- Companies mapped
- 0 of 13
- Primitives
- 57 in 8 parts
- Last updated
- Nov 2, 2026
The numbers for this industry
United States · 2023 · NAICS 524113- Establishments
- 5,674
- Employees
- 308,639
- Annual payroll
- $41.4B
- Payroll per employee
- $134.1K
Establishments by number of employees
- 1-42,830
- 5-9798
- 10-19701
- 1000+65
- 20-49656
- 50-99269
- 100-249195
- 250-49994
- 500-99966
Source: US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023 (national file), employees as of mid-March 2023, payroll for the year; published 2025-06-26. Coded on NAICS 2017. Withheld cells read as not published.
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