Insurance Sales Agents · SOC 41-3021

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Insurance Sales Agentss

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025U.S. metropolitan areas

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for insurance sales agents. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked (7 such areas are excluded here). Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Top 25 of 381 metro areas

Insurance Sales Agents: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$95,640	4,860	2.0
2	Fond du Lac, WI	$95,110	120	2.8
3	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$84,670	6,750	3.5
4	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	$83,990	350	1.8
5	Bloomington, IL	$82,040	780	8.8
6	Sheboygan, WI	$81,550	100	1.7
7	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$81,540	8,480	2.9
8	Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI	$81,080	2,250	2.7
9	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$80,940	2,780	2.6
10	Madison, WI	$80,700	1,090	2.7
11	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$80,620	21,280	2.2
12	La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN	$80,300	130	1.6
13	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$80,120	7,420	2.7
14	Sioux Falls, SD-MN	$79,690	660	3.7
15	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$79,680	440	2.2
16	Barnstable Town, MA	$79,520	180	2.0
17	Rochester, NY	$79,150	930	1.9
18	Charleston-North Charleston, SC	$78,890	1,330	3.4
19	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$78,610	1,950	2.7
20	Green Bay, WI	$78,490	380	2.2
21	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$77,780	840	2.6
22	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$77,590	5,150	3.2
23	Monroe, MI	$77,560	80	1.9
24	Oshkosh-Neenah, WI	$77,340	200	2.1
25	Appleton, WI	$77,250	550	4.5

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Insurance Sales Agents overview.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.