Insurance Sales Agents

Most exposed tasks

Highest structured exposure values in this role’s task mix — the work AI systems can already do most of.

• Calculate premiums and establish payment method.80
• Confer with clients to obtain and provide information when claims are made on a policy.79
• Ensure that policy requirements are fulfilled, including any necessary medical examinations and the completion of appropriate forms.79

Augmentable tasks

Work where AI assists rather than replaces — the productivity frontier of this role.

• Sell various types of insurance policies to businesses and individuals on behalf of insurance companies, including automobile, fire, life, property, medical and dental insurance, or specialized policies, such as marine, farm/crop, and medical malpractice.57
• Develop marketing strategies to compete with other individuals or companies who sell insurance.51
• Inspect property, examining its general condition, type of construction, age, and other characteristics, to decide if it is a good insurance risk.47

Most durable tasks

Lowest exposure — typically judgment, relationships, physical presence, or accountability. This is the human moat.

The current data release does not distinguish durable tasks for this role.

Task exposure values and classifications come from the versioned data release — they are structured data, not model output. Bars show exposure contribution relative to this role’s task mix.

What this means

A score of 68 puts Insurance Sales Agents in the most-exposed quarter of analyzed occupations. In practice, exposure this high is about the mix: 16 of 19 analyzed tasks lean automatable, 3 augmentable, and 0 durable. The useful question isn’t “will AI take this job” — it’s which tasks go first, which get faster, and where to reposition time. That’s what the personalized report maps against your actual week.

One next move: audit how much of your week sits in the exposed tasks above — then shift time toward the durable set or investigate the adjacent roles below.

Lower-exposure adjacent roles

No adjacent role in the current data release is at least 10 points lower with ≥50% skill overlap — we don’t label anything “safer” unless the data supports it.

Labor-market context

• $62,280median wage
• 479,100employed
• 47,000annual openings
• +3.7%projected growth

Context only — labor statistics are not inputs to the exposure score. See methodology.

Related roles

Adjacent by skills or family — no exposure claim implied.

• Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks 90
• Personal Financial Advisors 68
• Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents 68
• Loan Officers 80
• Customer Service Representative 75
• Insurance Underwriter 77

FAQ — Insurance Sales Agents

What does a score of 68 mean for a Insurance Sales Agents?

It means that, weighted across the 19 tasks we analyzed for this role, the task mix sits at 68 on a 0–100 exposure scale — in the most-exposed quarter of analyzed occupations. It measures task exposure to current and near-term AI capabilities, not the probability of losing a job.

Which tasks in this role are most exposed to AI?

The highest-exposure tasks are: Calculate premiums and establish payment method; Confer with clients to obtain and provide information when claims are made on a policy; Ensure that policy requirements are fulfilled, including any necessary medical examinations and the completion of appropriate forms. Exposure is scored per task from structured data, not generated by a language model.

Which parts of this job are most durable?

The current data release does not distinguish durable tasks for this role.

Is this score personalized to me?

No — this page shows the occupation-level baseline. Two people with the same title often do different work. The $9 personalized report recalculates the score from the tasks you actually do and builds a concrete 7/30/90-day plan around them.