California · NAICS 524 · Annual, 2025

Insurance Carriers and Related Activities in California

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 524 in California, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Insurance Carriers and Related Activities (NAICS 524) employed about 189,500 people in California across roughly 18,205 establishments, with average annual pay of $124,800.

Employment in Insurance Carriers and Related Activities in California declined 6.8% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in California than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.62). Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for California are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 189,500Employment, 2025
  • 18,205Establishments
  • $124,800Avg. annual pay
  • 1.0%Share of California jobs
  • 0.62Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Insurance Carriers and Related Activities in California, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 222,800 to 189,500.0100K200K300K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 222,800; 2005 222,700; 2006 220,900; 2007 215,800; 2008 211,100; 2009 203,400; 2010 179,900; 2011 180,400; 2012 183,000; 2013 186,900; 2014 188,300; 2015 196,500; 2016 206,200; 2017 207,500; 2018 207,100; 2019 206,200; 2020 203,300; 2021 202,900; 2022 206,400; 2023 197,900; 2024 196,600; 2025 189,500.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025189,54618,205$124,797 3.6%pub.
2024196,61118,130$120,382 0.6%pub.
2023197,87118,452$115,726 4.1%pub.
2022206,38618,843$111,874 1.7%pub.
2021202,86718,877$107,277 0.2%pub.
2020203,34918,773$103,252 1.4%pub.
2019206,22718,652$97,431 0.4%pub.
2018207,09918,409$94,989 0.2%pub.
2017207,47117,662$92,666 0.6%pub.
2016206,18917,450$90,289 4.9%pub.

The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.

Where these numbers come from

Reading these figures

The figures on this page come from one named vintage, stated below, and are annual values for all ownerships combined. Where QCEW withheld a value, the marked figure is an estimate that DTG produced under the constraints of the published record; suppression is a property of QCEW, not of DTG, and a withheld value is marked rather than silently omitted. Two things DTG itself holds back, and says so where it does: an estimate that cannot be given a reliability score is not shown, and average pay is not shown where fewer than three jobs are reported. The row is marked withheld, with the reason in a note beneath the table. The mark is on every row that carries a value: the headline, the yearly history, the subsectors and the other states. An estimated value that rounds below one is shown as less than one, not as zero. Quarterly figures, county figures and projected years are in the app.

How this figure was built

Employment is the average of the three monthly counts in each quarter, averaged across the year, and establishments are averaged across the year the same way. Average annual pay is the year’s total wages divided by that average employment. Each of these is DTG’s value: QCEW’s published figure where QCEW disclosed it, and DTG’s estimate, marked, where it did not. How withheld values are estimated, and what the reliability score beside a figure means, are described on the industry data and disclosure and provenance pages.

Estimated by Data Tactical Group from BLS QCEW, with CES/SAE and projection inputs described in the methodology. Method: Disclosure, Industry.

Notes

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Insurance Carriers and Related Activities in California, quarterly, at full depth

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