Best Jobs For Former Insurance Agents [2023]

It’s tough to be a insurance agent nowadays, and more and more of them are losing confidence in their own profession.

While the amount of people majoring in courses preparing people for a job as a insurance agent isn’t necessarily dropping, fewer and fewer people are applying to become insurance agents in the first place and the workforce itself is looking grim.

With so many insurance agents no longer sticking around, this begs the question:

What are they all doing now?

We were curious, so we looked through the resumes of former insurance agents to see what kind of jobs they were moving into after leaving the field. There were thousands of answers, so we made the cutoff at the top 100 jobs.

The full list of those jobs can be found below.

Here’s a quick look at the top ten most common jobs for former insurance agents :

These are all good jobs, all of them either utilizing some skill that a insurance agent would have or being a stepping stone to a different career.

Here’s the thing about these jobs though — as a list, they’re kind of boring as hell. They’re pretty much exactly what you’d expect a lot of former insurance agents to do.

But given that there are some very surprising and interesting items on this list, we’ve decided to highlight a few of those instead.

Here are some of the most interesting jobs of former insurance agents:

Some of these items are admittedly more attractive than one another as far as actually working the job goes, but one way or another, you’ve got to admit they’re eye-catching.

How We Determined the Most Common Jobs of Former INSURANCE AGENTS

Using resume information from our database of over 7 million resumes, we looked at all resumes that listed insurance agent under their work history. Then we looked at which jobs showed up on their work histories following their stints as a insurance agent, sorting them by their most frequent.

That’s how we made the initial ranked list.

To make our list of most interesting jobs, we looked through the ranked list to see if any positions:

Showed up in fewer than 1% of all new jobs
And, were not part of the 100 most common jobs in our database

That’s all for how we did it — below you’ll find the full ranked list of the most common jobs of former insurance agents.

Detailed Ranking of the Most Common Jobs of Former INSURANCE AGENTS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Customer Service Representative	3.09%
2	Sales Associate	1.5%
3	Sales Representative	1.42%
4	Account Executive	1.19%
5	Office Manager	1.0%
6	Administrative Assistant	0.98%
7	Manager	0.92%
8	Substitute Teacher	0.88%
9	Account Manager	0.8%
10	Owner	0.78%
11	Assistant Manager	0.75%
12	Store Manager	0.74%
13	Agent	0.72%
14	Sales Consultant	0.71%
15	Sales Manager	0.68%
16	Cashier	0.66%
17	Teacher	0.47%
18	Sales Agent	0.43%
19	Customer Service Trainer	0.42%
20	Specialist	0.42%
21	Finance Advisor	0.41%
22	Supervisor	0.41%
23	Consultant	0.39%
24	Operations Manager	0.39%
25	General Manager	0.36%
26	Server	0.35%
27	Finance Representative	0.34%
28	Security Officer	0.34%
29	Team Leader	0.34%
30	Project Manager	0.34%
31	Insurance Broker	0.31%
32	Insurance Sales Agent	0.31%
33	Owner/operator	0.3%
34	Assistant Store Manager	0.3%
35	Associate	0.3%
36	Office Assistant	0.3%
37	Driver	0.29%
38	Branch Manager	0.28%
39	Service Representative	0.28%
40	Internship	0.27%
41	Licensed Insurance Agent	0.27%
42	Volunteer	0.27%
43	Representative	0.27%
44	Receptionist	0.25%
45	Customer Service Associate	0.24%
46	Home Health Aid	0.24%
47	Claims Adjuster	0.23%
48	Business Analyst	0.23%
49	Pharmacist Technician	0.23%
50	Vice President	0.23%
51	Program Manager	0.23%
52	Service Manager	0.23%
53	Certified Nursing Assistant	0.23%
54	Personal Banker	0.23%
55	Loan Officer	0.23%
56	Health Insurance Agent	0.22%
57	Real Estate Agent	0.22%
58	Inside Sales Representative	0.22%
59	Health Advisor	0.22%
60	Human Resources Coordinator	0.2%
61	Realtor	0.2%
62	Analyst	0.2%
63	Customer Service Specialist	0.2%
64	Sales/marketing	0.2%
65	Delivery Driver	0.2%
66	Recruiter	0.19%
67	Life Insurance Agent	0.19%
68	Accounts Receivable Specialist	0.19%
69	Accounts Payable Clerk	0.19%
70	Finance Service Representative	0.19%
71	Account Representative	0.18%
72	Coordinator	0.18%
73	Benefit Specialist	0.18%
74	Business Development Manager	0.18%
75	Technician	0.18%
76	Property Manager	0.18%
77	Instructor	0.18%
78	Technical Support Technician	0.18%
79	Marketing Director	0.17%
80	Executive Assistant	0.17%
81	Sales Person	0.17%
82	Licensed Sales Producer	0.17%
83	Business Owner	0.16%
84	Underwriter	0.16%
85	Territory Manager	0.16%
86	Customer Service Agent	0.16%
87	Legal Assistant	0.16%
88	Sales Specialist	0.14%
89	Billing Specialist	0.14%
90	Tax Preparer	0.14%
91	Insurance Producer	0.14%
92	Self-Employed	0.14%
93	Benefits Counselor	0.14%
94	Truck Driver	0.14%
95	Service Specialist	0.14%
96	Office Administrator	0.14%
97	Owner/manager	0.14%
98	Director Of Sales	0.13%
99	Outside Sales Representative	0.13%
100	Teller	0.13%

Author

Chris Kolmar

Chris Kolmar is a co-founder of Zippia and the editor-in-chief of the Zippia career advice blog. He has hired over 50 people in his career, been hired five times, and wants to help you land your next job. His research has been featured on the New York Times, Thrillist, VOX, The Atlantic, and a host of local news. More recently, he's been quoted on USA Today, BusinessInsider, and CNBC.

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