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Insurance Underwriters vs Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents

Side-by-side · O*NET · BLS · AI-exposure research · Anthropic Economic Index

A factual, source-backed comparison of Insurance Underwriters and Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents on the dimensions both occupations carry. Every figure is a position within an independent published dataset — not a verdict on which job is better, safer, or more “future-proof.”

Insurance Underwriters Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents
Median pay · BLS OEWS
$79,880
$78,140
Employment · BLS OEWS
107,820
472,300
AI exposure (percentile) · task overlap, not automation
55th pct
76th pct

At a glance

Dimension Insurance Underwriters Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents
Median pay $79,880 $78,140
Employment 107,820 472,300
Employment outlook (2024–34) · BLS projection Declining (-2.6%) About average (+3.3%)
Annual openings · BLS projection 8,200 38,100
Typical education · O*NET Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not. Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
AI exposure · published exposure studies Moderate · 55th pct High · 76th pct
Global GenAI gradient · ILO ISCO-08 · via crosswalk 90th pct · 53% of tasks 91st pct · 53% of tasks
Observed AI use · Anthropic Economic Index Automation-leaning (44.7%) —
Mostly remote-capable · Dingel–Neiman Yes Yes

Pay and employment are BLS OEWS estimates; outlook and openings are BLS 2024–2034 projections; AI exposure and observed-use figures come from separate research and reflect exposure and usage, not predictions that either job will disappear. Compare like with like.

Skills

Shared: English Language, Customer and Personal Service, Written Comprehension, Reading Comprehension, Active Listening, Writing, Critical Thinking, Written Expression, Inductive Reasoning, Speaking, Oral Expression, Judgment and Decision Making, Oral Comprehension, Deductive Reasoning, Problem Sensitivity, Speech Clarity, Mathematics, Category Flexibility, Near Vision, Speech Recognition, Sales and Marketing, Active Learning, Complex Problem Solving, Information Ordering, Monitoring, Social Perceptiveness, Service Orientation, Mathematics, Persuasion, Time Management, Fluency of Ideas, Mathematical Reasoning.

Specific to Insurance Underwriters

  • Coordination
  • Flexibility of Closure
  • Administrative
  • Originality
  • Selective Attention
  • Learning Strategies
  • Negotiation
  • Instructing

Specific to Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents

  • Economics and Accounting
  • Computers and Electronics
  • Administration and Management
  • Systems Analysis
  • Systems Evaluation
  • Management of Financial Resources
  • Number Facility
  • Law and Government

Knowledge, skills & abilities O*NET rates as important for each occupation. “Shared” are common to both; the columns list what is distinctive to each (top by the order O*NET surfaces).

Tools & technology

Shared: Spreadsheet software , Office suite software , Electronic mail software , Presentation software , Object or component oriented development software , Data base user interface and query software , Operating system software , Word processing software , Enterprise resource planning ERP software , Financial analysis software , Document management software .

Specific to Insurance Underwriters

Specific to Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents

Full profiles

This page is a summary. See the complete source-backed profile for Insurance Underwriters or Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents — tasks, the full skill graph, tools, work context, preparation, wages by percentile, industries, AI exposure and the AI work map.

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Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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Singulariki. "Insurance Underwriters vs Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; BLS Employment Projections 2024–2034; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans; ILO / Gmyrek et al. GenAI exposure gradient 2025; IBS O*NET-SOC ↔ ISCO-08 occupation crosswalk 2022; Frey & Osborne (2013) frey-osborne-automation; Dingel & Neiman (2020) dingel-neiman-workathome. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/compare/insurance-underwriters-vs-securities-commodities-and-financial-services-sales-agents

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Singulariki. (2026). Insurance Underwriters vs Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/compare/insurance-underwriters-vs-securities-commodities-and-financial-services-sales-agents

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