Insurance Agencies and Brokerages

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in acting as agents (i.e., brokers) in selling annuities and 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 0
Primitives: 57 in 8 parts
Last updated: Nov 2, 2026

The numbers for this industry

United States · 2023 · NAICS 524210

Establishments: 133,728
Employees: 818,561
Annual payroll: $74.4B
Payroll per employee: $90.8K

Establishments by number of employees

1-496,709
5-923,567
10-197,992
1000+23
20-493,594
50-991,038
100-249613
250-499144
500-99948

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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29 parameters

Parameter	Primitive	Type	Unit	Median	Range
Net interest or fee margin	Rates, fees and spreads	Percent	%	—	—
Average fee on assets	Rates, fees and spreads	Number	basis points	—	—
Applications per month	Origination	Number	applications	—	—
Applications that fund or sign	Origination	Percent	%	—	—
Cost per funded loan or new client	Origination	Money	USD	—	—
Files with defects	Quality control and file review	Percent	%	—	—
Loan book or assets under management	Loan book and assets under management	Money	USD	—	—
Time to decision	Underwriting	Number	hours	—	—
Approval rate	Underwriting	Percent	%	—	—
Decisions made automatically	Underwriting	Percent	%	—	—
Cost to service an account	Servicing	Money	USD per year	—	—
Payments on time	Servicing	Percent	%	—	—
Return against benchmark	Portfolio management	Percent	%	—	—
Clients per adviser	Portfolio management	Number	clients	—	—
Reconciliation breaks per month	Custody and safekeeping	Number	breaks	—	—
Days to onboard a client	Client onboarding	Number	days	—	—
Clients retained per year	Client retention	Percent	%	—	—
Accounts 30 days or more past due	Collections and recoveries	Percent	%	—	—
Annual charge-off rate	Collections and recoveries	Percent	%	—	—
Cost of funds	Funding and liquidity	Percent	%	—	—
Revenue from commissions	Commissions and trails	Percent	%	—	—
Capital ratio	Capital and funding lines	Percent	%	—	—
Funding sources	Capital and funding lines	Number	sources	—	—
Expected loss	Credit and portfolio risk	Percent	%	—	—
Book in the ten largest exposures	Credit and portfolio risk	Percent	%	—	—
Alerts cleared within target	Identity checks and anti-money-laundering	Percent	%	—	—
Periodic client reviews on schedule	Identity checks and anti-money-laundering	Percent	%	—	—
Reports filed on time	Regulatory reporting	Percent	%	—	—
Open examination findings	Regulatory reporting	Number	findings	—	—

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29 parameters

Parameter	Primitive	Type	Unit	Median	Range
Net interest or fee margin	Rates, fees and spreads	Percent	%	—	—
Average fee on assets	Rates, fees and spreads	Number	basis points	—	—
Applications per month	Origination	Number	applications	—	—
Applications that fund or sign	Origination	Percent	%	—	—
Cost per funded loan or new client	Origination	Money	USD	—	—
Files with defects	Quality control and file review	Percent	%	—	—
Loan book or assets under management	Loan book and assets under management	Money	USD	—	—
Time to decision	Underwriting	Number	hours	—	—
Approval rate	Underwriting	Percent	%	—	—
Decisions made automatically	Underwriting	Percent	%	—	—
Cost to service an account	Servicing	Money	USD per year	—	—
Payments on time	Servicing	Percent	%	—	—
Return against benchmark	Portfolio management	Percent	%	—	—
Clients per adviser	Portfolio management	Number	clients	—	—
Reconciliation breaks per month	Custody and safekeeping	Number	breaks	—	—
Days to onboard a client	Client onboarding	Number	days	—	—
Clients retained per year	Client retention	Percent	%	—	—
Accounts 30 days or more past due	Collections and recoveries	Percent	%	—	—
Annual charge-off rate	Collections and recoveries	Percent	%	—	—
Cost of funds	Funding and liquidity	Percent	%	—	—
Revenue from commissions	Commissions and trails	Percent	%	—	—
Capital ratio	Capital and funding lines	Percent	%	—	—
Funding sources	Capital and funding lines	Number	sources	—	—
Expected loss	Credit and portfolio risk	Percent	%	—	—
Book in the ten largest exposures	Credit and portfolio risk	Percent	%	—	—
Alerts cleared within target	Identity checks and anti-money-laundering	Percent	%	—	—
Periodic client reviews on schedule	Identity checks and anti-money-laundering	Percent	%	—	—
Reports filed on time	Regulatory reporting	Percent	%	—	—
Open examination findings	Regulatory reporting	Number	findings	—	—

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