P/C insurance carrier employment in the U.S. declined in December, continuing a generally downward trend going back 18 months, the Insurance Information Institute said in a special report.
The number hit 515,800 in December 2015, down 600 from the same year-ago period, according to U.S. Labor Department Bureau of Labor Statistics data cited by the I.I.I. in a new report. Steven Weisbart, senior vice president and chief economist for the I.I.I., summarized the findings in a Feb. 5 posting for the institute.
As Weisbart explained in his article, P/C carrier employment has generally been trending downward over the last 18 months, though it had some upward month-over-month blips in November 2014, February 2015, June 2015, November 2015 and December 2013.
Those blips have kept the total relatively flat, Weisbart wrote, and now P/C carrier employment is about at the level it hit in October 2013.
Other employment numbers Weisbart cites in his article:
Source: Insurance Information Institute