For the second month in a row, agents and brokers led all insurance subsectors in job creation in September, according to the latest employment data.
An Insurance Information Institute analysis of the latest U.S. Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) figures shows that agents and brokers added jobs for the fourth straight month in September, continuing the subsector's steady march toward its pre-recession peak. Agent and broker employment stands at 670,000, compared to a high of 679,300 set in July 2007, according to I.I.I.
I.I.I. President Robert Hartwig says, “After losing jobs in December 2012 and the first five months of 2013, this segment has added 2,400, 2,400, 2,200, and 2,000 (a total of 9,000) jobs in the most recent four months.”
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