Georgia · BLS May 2025
Also called insurance agent. SOC 41-3021.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics counted 18,030 insurance sales agents working in Georgia. Here is what they are paid, what the median leaves after federal, state and FICA tax, and what that is worth against local prices.
Median pay · Georgia
$61,850A year, or $29.74 an hour.| Percentile | Annual | Hourly |
|---|---|---|
| 10th percentileEntry and lowest-paid | $36,340 | $17.47 |
| 25th percentile | $45,980 | $22.11 |
| MedianHalf earn more, half less | $61,850 | $29.74 |
| 75th percentile | $99,430 | $47.80 |
| 90th percentileMost experienced and senior | $161,690 | $77.73 |
| MeanThe average, pulled up by the top | $88,140 | $42.38 |
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A $61,850 salary in Georgia, for one single filer taking the standard deduction in 2026.
Prices in Georgia sit at 96.3 against a national average of 100, so $61,850 earned here buys what $64,231 buys at national average prices.
Common questions
The median wage for insurance sales agents in Georgia is $61,850 a year, or $29.74 an hour.
Half earn more than that and half earn less. The figure comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational wage survey for May 2025.
On the median wage of $61,850, one filer taking the standard deduction keeps about $49,539 a year, or roughly $4,128 a month.
That is after federal, state and FICA tax, an effective rate of 19.9%.
Georgia takes $2,338 of it in state income tax.
No. The median in Georgia is 0.7% below the national median of $62,280.
Nominal pay is only half the comparison: prices in Georgia sit at 96.3 against a national 100, so the gap in what the money buys is different from the gap in the salary.
It is 0.8 times the median household income of $77,353. A household often has more than one earner, so a single salary at this level goes further than the ratio alone suggests.
Prices in Georgia run at 96.3 against a national average of 100, with rents at 88.7, so $61,850 here buys about what $64,231 buys at national average prices.
The top tenth earn $161,690 a year or more, against $36,340 at the bottom tenth.
Experience, specialism, employer and the part of Georgia someone works in all move a wage inside that range; the survey reports the spread, not the reason for it.
The survey counted 18,030 of these jobs in Georgia for May 2025.
That makes the occupation 20% more concentrated here than in the country as a whole. It counts wage and salary jobs, so the self-employed are outside it.
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