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Change in the number of personnel working in the sector over the years

20.000 18.862
18.000 16.873
16.000 14.062 14.228 14.623 15.289
14.000
12.000
10.000
8.000 5.894 5.794 5.635 5.946 6.857
6.000 5.326
4.000
2.000
0
2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Number of direct sales personnel Number of employees of the company

Source: TSB
life insurance companies, and 47 non-life insurance companies. 14,387 women and 11,332 male employees are employed in
The number of personnel employed in these companies increased insurance and private pension companies.
from 22,819 at the end of 2022 to 25,719. Sector operate with
many stakeholders and a variety of products, while insurance In total, 401 people are graduates of the department of law,
companies, pension funds and life companies, reinsurance com- 978 people are graduates of the department of economics, 2
panies, BES agents, insurance agents, brokers, actuaries and thousand 56 people are graduates of the department of engi-
insurance experts, the industry's main activity field is created by neering, one thousand 914 people are graduates of the depart-
generating employment. ment of insurance and actuarial, and 4 thousand 115 people
are graduates of the department of business administration.
According to the end of 2023 data of TSB, a total of 16,337 7,919 of the total employees in the sector are graduates from
personnel working in direct sales and non-direct sales in insur- other departments
ance companies; 8 thousand 964 people are employed in private
pension and life companies, and 418 people are employed in re-
insurance companies. Distribution of the total personnel
employed in insurance and pension
54 Percent of the total staff consists of
women companies according to their
It turns out that 54 percent and the majority of the total staff educational status (*DSPH)
employed in insurance and pension companies are made up of
female employees; 46 percent are made up the male employees. 140
4336 of the direct sales personnel are women; 2521 of them are
male personnel. It turns out that 10051 of the employees work- 2.360 1.339
ing in areas other than direct sales are women; 8811 of them 2.396
are men. According to the data for the end of 2023, a total of

Employment indicators in the insurance
sector (2023)

Number of personnel working in companies * 25.719 12.627
Number of employees of the reinsurance company 418
Number of experts 1.895
Number of real person experts 1.267 Primary/Secondary School and Equivalent
Number of legal person experts 628
High School and Equivalent
Number of agents 18.030
2-Year College
Number of brokers 109
University
Number of actuaries 476
Graduate
* The sales staff is included.
Source: TSB, TOBB, SBD * Excluding direct sales personnel