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Insurance Clerks
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Job Numbers and Growth
There are about 254,000 for insurance clerks in the US. For this occupation the level of unemployment is relatively low.
Part-Time Work and Self-Employment
Of those surveyed, 10% of employees work part-time.
Training and Education
Prior to starting this profession, consider obtaining moderate-term on-the-job training. Government data shows that 22% of workers have a bachelor's degree or higher. Those who have gone to college, but don't have a degree make up 48% of employees. For 31% of insurance clerks a high-school education was all they required. Recommended schools are shown in the column to the right; request information from them to help you decide which, if any, could help you with this career.
Area Job Conditions
The cities with the most workers jobs, compared to the population, are Lewiston (Maine), Macon (Georgia), and Chattanooga (Tennessee). Fewer are found in Ann Arbor (Michigan), Anchorage (Alaska), and Lexington (Kentucky).
Employees earn higher incomes in San Francisco (California), Naples (Florida), and San Jose (California), and lower incomes in Kingman (Arizona), Dothan (Alabama), and Athens (Georgia).
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Insurance Clerks: Job and Salary Data by Metropolitan Area
The table below shows data for Insurance Clerks, as of 2008. The Popularity in Area number tells you how common jobs for Insurance Clerks are in the area, compared to other US metro areas. A value of 1.0 means an average number of people in the position for area population. Lower numbers mean fewer of these positions in the metro area. The most popular areas for Insurance Clerks are starred .
State Area Positions Typical Pay Popularity in Area Alabama Anniston 40 $28,200 0.5 Alabama Birmingham 1,430 $29,980 1.5 Alabama Dothan 40 $23,210 0.4 Alabama Florence 140 $25,610 1.8 Alabama Mobile 230 $28,490 0.7 Alabama Montgomery 240 $32,450 0.8 Alabama Tuscaloosa 100 $33,110 0.7 Alaska Anchorage 40 $36,530 0.1 Arizona Kingman 30 $24,120 0.4 Arizona Phoenix 2,210 $32,420 0.7 Arizona Tucson 320 $32,000 0.5 Arkansas Fayetteville 140 $29,510 0.4 Arkansas Fort Smith 100 $33,020 0.5 Arkansas Hot Springs 80 $28,000 1.4 Arkansas Little Rock 1,040 $33,970 1.7 California Bakersfield 660 $36,460 1.4 California Chico 320 $32,850 2.9California Fresno 910 $34,370 1.5 California Merced 80 $30,300 0.9 California Modesto 190 $33,090 0.7 California Napa 190 $37,930 1.8 California Oakland 2,320 $41,080 1.2 California Oxnard 1,020 $37,450 1.9 California Redding 210 $31,480 2 California Riverside 1,990 $33,930 0.9 California Sacramento 3,390 $36,350 2.1California Salinas 80 $27,420 0.3 California San Diego 2,940 $38,080 1.2 California San Francisco 2,140 $48,800 1.2 California San Jose 800 $44,730 0.5 California San Luis Obispo 110 $42,930 0.7 California Santa Ana 4,190 $40,520 1.5 California Santa Barbara 250 $38,240 0.9 California Santa Cruz 140 $40,330 1 California Santa Rosa 270 $40,380 0.8 California Stockton 340 $37,900 0.9 California Vallejo 170 $39,700 0.8 California Visalia 460 $35,420 2Colorado Colorado Springs 460 $37,410 1 Colorado Denver 2,750 $39,340 1.2 Colorado Greeley 240 $38,520 2 Connecticut Bridgeport 740 $40,260 0.9 Connecticut Hartford 4,250 $41,080 4.1Connecticut New Haven 710 $42,530 1.4 Connecticut Norwich 90 $37,910 0.4 Connecticut Waterbury 90 $44,260 0.8 Delaware Dover 50 $29,100 0.6 Delaware Wilmington 730 $37,320 1.3 District of Columbia Washington 1,590 $40,790 0.4 Florida Deltona 70 $29,180 0.3 Florida Fort Lauderdale 1,320 $34,590 1 Florida Gainesville 290 $27,840 1.5 Florida Jacksonville 820 $28,220 0.8 Florida Lakeland 320 $29,470 0.9 Florida Miami 1,640 $31,220 0.9 Florida Naples 100 $47,870 0.5 Florida Orlando 1,250 $34,940 0.7 Florida Pensacola 120 0.5 Florida Sarasota 180 $31,770 0.4 Florida Tallahassee 160 $29,600 0.6 Florida Tampa 2,850 $34,770 1.3 Florida West Palm Beach 440 $36,260 0.5 Georgia Albany 70 $24,180 0.7 Georgia Athens 50 $22,660 0.4 Georgia Atlanta 4,110 $33,150 1 Georgia Augusta 120 $30,170 0.3 Georgia Macon 790 $30,140 4.8Georgia Valdosta 50 $29,200 0.6 Hawaii Honolulu 500 $34,070 0.6 Illinois Champaign 60 $34,470 0.4 Illinois Chicago 5,390 $38,530 0.8 Illinois Peoria 370 $29,610 1.3 Illinois Springfield 430 $33,360 2.5Indiana Elkhart 90 $29,870 0.4 Indiana Fort Wayne 650 $29,240 1.8 Indiana Gary 260 $31,350 0.5 Indiana Indianapolis 3,110 $34,210 1.9 Indiana Lafayette 240 $33,470 1.9 Indiana South Bend 120 $36,730 0.5 Indiana Terre Haute 50 $29,730 0.4 Iowa Ames 50 $26,290 0.9 Iowa Cedar Rapids 290 $31,500 1.3 Iowa Davenport 360 $33,600 1.1 Iowa Des Moines 1,640 $33,360 2.8Iowa Dubuque 40 $31,240 0.5 Iowa Sioux City 150 $29,990 1.3 Iowa Waterloo 100 $31,460 0.7 Kansas Topeka 240 $29,650 1.3 Kansas Wichita 260 $29,310 0.5 Kentucky Lexington 60 $36,000 0.1 Louisiana Baton Rouge 470 $30,120 0.7 Louisiana New Orleans 550 $27,070 0.6 Louisiana Shreveport 180 $31,180 0.6 Maine Bangor 90 $29,010 0.9 Maine Lewiston 370 $32,570 4.8Maine Portland 950 $32,290 2.7Maryland Baltimore 1,860 $37,720 0.8 Maryland Bethesda 760 $34,990 0.7 Maryland Hagerstown 90 $31,470 0.5 Massachusetts Barnstable Town 50 $38,520 0.3 Massachusetts Boston 4,580 $41,730 1.5 Massachusetts Brockton 160 $38,760 1.1 Massachusetts Framingham 120 $35,000 0.4 Massachusetts Haverhill 100 $35,530 0.8 Massachusetts Lawrence 80 $32,020 0.9 Massachusetts Lowell 140 $40,630 0.7 Massachusetts New Bedford 110 $35,380 1.1 Massachusetts Pittsfield 130 $33,610 2.6Massachusetts Taunton 70 $35,790 1 Massachusetts Worcester 900 $38,940 2.1Michigan Ann Arbor 50 $28,600 0.2 Michigan Detroit 1,000 $32,730 0.8 Michigan Flint 340 $37,880 1.5 Michigan Grand Rapids 640 $32,160 0.9 Michigan Lansing 600 $32,650 1.8 Michigan Monroe 50 $27,110 0.8 Michigan Saginaw 160 $27,800 1.3 Michigan Warren 1,780 $34,030 0.9 Minnesota Duluth 50 $32,570 0.2 Minnesota Minneapolis 2,970 $36,690 0.9 Mississippi Jackson 850 $34,950 1.9 Missouri Columbia 510 $34,880 3.8Missouri Jefferson City 60 $29,870 0.5 Missouri Kansas City 2,010 $35,550 1.1 Missouri Springfield 500 $30,610 1.5 Missouri St Louis 2,980 $37,910 1.2 Montana Great Falls 80 $29,490 1.5 Nebraska Lincoln 1,130 $30,610 4Nebraska Omaha 2,150 $33,080 2.6Nevada Carson City 50 $37,850 1.3 Nevada Las Vegas 1,070 $37,350 0.6 Nevada Reno 370 $35,720 1 New Hampshire Manchester 250 $34,170 1.4 New Hampshire Nashua 180 $39,720 0.8 New Hampshire Portsmouth 280 $36,020 3.1New Hampshire Rochester 190 $34,440 2.1New Jersey Atlantic City 140 $36,460 0.6 New Jersey Camden 910 $34,810 1 New Jersey Edison 2,540 $37,330 1.4 New Jersey Newark 3,450 $36,410 1.9 New Jersey Ocean City 80 $33,010 1.3 New Jersey Trenton 830 $38,400 2.2New Jersey Vineland 50 $28,940 0.6 New Mexico Albuquerque 530 $28,000 0.8 New Mexico Farmington 60 $27,660 0.7 New Mexico Las Cruces 40 $24,580 0.4 New York Albany 1,440 $34,460 1.8 New York Binghamton 210 $35,100 1.2 New York Buffalo 1,040 $32,510 1.1 New York Elmira 40 $30,470 0.8 New York Glens Falls 100 $33,380 1.2 New York Ithaca 40 $29,050 0.6 New York Kingston 100 $32,340 1.1 New York Nassau 2,340 $39,650 1 New York New York 5,220 $39,630 0.6 New York Poughkeepsie 200 $37,320 0.5 New York Rochester 540 $33,840 0.6 New York Syracuse 870 $32,150 1.6 New York Utica 830 $33,370 3.8North Carolina Burlington 90 $33,950 1 North Carolina Charlotte 2,060 $34,460 1.3 North Carolina Goldsboro 40 $31,180 0.7 North Carolina Greensboro 1,000 $30,960 1.5 North Carolina Hickory 170 $33,650 0.6 North Carolina Raleigh 970 $32,540 1.1 North Carolina Winston Salem 380 $33,150 1 North Dakota Bismarck 160 $29,910 1.8 North Dakota Fargo 470 $27,510 2.4Ohio Akron 830 $34,770 1.4 Ohio Canton 490 $31,110 1.6 Ohio Cincinnati 2,880 $35,210 1.5 Ohio Cleveland 2,530 $33,810 1.3 Ohio Columbus 3,340 $33,360 2 Ohio Dayton 570 $37,870 0.8 Ohio Lima 60 $29,590 0.7 Ohio Toledo 480 $36,580 0.9 Ohio Youngstown 340 $33,980 0.8 Oklahoma Oklahoma City 1,100 $30,780 1.1 Oklahoma Tulsa 850 $31,730 1.1 Oregon Bend 100 $34,280 0.9 Oregon Eugene 70 $34,090 0.3 Oregon Medford 290 $27,920 2.1Oregon Portland 2,090 $38,330 1.1 Oregon Salem 410 $34,820 1.6 Pennsylvania Allentown 950 $35,020 1.6 Pennsylvania Altoona 90 $32,630 0.9 Pennsylvania Harrisburg 1,560 $36,480 2.8Pennsylvania Johnstown 50 $33,340 0.6 Pennsylvania Lancaster 310 $34,470 0.8 Pennsylvania Philadelphia 4,160 $35,100 1.2 Pennsylvania Pittsburgh 2,280 $34,150 1.1 Pennsylvania Reading 450 $34,430 1.6 Pennsylvania Scranton 830 $32,150 1.8 Rhode Island Providence 1,620 $35,730 1.6 South Carolina Charleston 360 $30,200 0.7 South Carolina Columbia 890 $30,610 1.4 South Carolina Greenville 270 $33,200 0.5 South Dakota Rapid City 160 $22,520 1.6 South Dakota Sioux Falls 790 $26,640 3.4Tennessee Chattanooga 1,700 $33,020 4.2Tennessee Kingsport 110 $27,660 0.6 Tennessee Knoxville 110 $33,550 0.2 Tennessee Memphis 330 $33,880 0.3 Tennessee Nashville 1,450 $37,570 1.1 Texas Abilene 160 $30,270 1.6 Texas Amarillo 240 $29,170 1.4 Texas Austin 1,090 $35,800 0.8 Texas Dallas 4,620 $34,660 1.2 Texas Fort Worth 990 $37,320 0.6 Texas Houston 3,460 $33,820 0.7 Texas Lubbock 190 $23,440 0.9 Texas Mcallen 130 $25,320 0.3 Texas Midland 30 $31,020 0.3 Texas San Antonio 1,470 $33,480 1 Texas Sherman 130 $30,450 2.2Texas Tyler 120 $31,940 0.8 Texas Wichita Falls 140 $30,800 1.5 Utah Logan 30 $24,530 0.4 Utah Ogden 330 $24,870 1 Utah Salt Lake City 1,280 $30,850 1.1 Utah St George 80 $22,390 1.1 Vermont Burlington 120 $38,420 0.7 Virginia Charlottesville 90 $30,780 0.6 Virginia Lynchburg 180 $29,580 1.1 Virginia Richmond 1,560 $32,720 1.5 Virginia Roanoke 730 $33,030 2.7Virginia Virginia Beach 870 $28,500 0.6 Virginia Winchester 50 $32,120 0.6 Washington Bellingham 150 $29,520 1.2 Washington Bremerton 170 $31,990 1.3 Washington Mount Vernon 210 $28,230 3Washington Olympia 600 $39,410 3.9Washington Seattle 3,510 $37,890 1.4 Washington Spokane 1,000 $31,300 2.7Washington Tacoma 680 $35,130 1.4 Washington Wenatchee 70 $28,190 1.2 Washington Yakima 150 $35,100 1.1 West Virginia Charleston 620 $29,820 2.5West Virginia Huntington 80 $26,450 0.4 West Virginia Parkersburg 170 $24,200 1.5 West Virginia Wheeling 130 $26,250 1.3 Wisconsin Appleton 340 $32,950 1.8 Wisconsin Fond 40 $25,320 0.6 Wisconsin Green Bay 660 $32,230 2.3Wisconsin La Crosse 190 $35,050 1.7 Wisconsin Madison 1,750 $34,000 3Wisconsin Milwaukee 1,890 $36,220 1.2 Wisconsin Oshkosh 70 $30,580 0.5 Wisconsin Racine 80 $35,150 0.6 Wisconsin Sheboygan 140 $30,190 1.6 Wyoming Casper 80 $28,150 1.4
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