The agent and broker subsector added jobs for the sixth straightmonth in November 2013, and is now just over 3,000 positions shortof its July 2007 employment peak, according to an analysis of thelatest U.S. Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statisticsfigures.
The addition of 3,300 agent and broker positions for Novemberrepresents the largest monthly addition in jobs for the subsectorthroughout the six-month employment-gain stretch. Agents andbrokers also outpaced all other insurance subsectors for Novemberemployment gains, and accounted for well over half of the insuranceindustry's overall gain of 5,800 jobs for the month, an analysis bythe Insurance Information Institute shows.
“If the recent pace keeps up, employment in this segment willpass [the July 2007] peak in one to two months,” says I.I.I.President Robert Hartwig in a statement accompanying theanalysis.
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