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Insurance share of finance jobs: U.S. states ranked (2023)

Measure: Insurance share of finance and insurance jobs (%, derived). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Finance and insurance jobs and pay by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2023.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-10

Download full table CSV Source: U.S. Census Bureau (County Business Patterns 2023 (API dataset 2023/cbp), NAICS 2017 codes 52, 522, 523, 524 and 00 (all sectors)) (opens in a new tab)Source: U.S. Census Bureau (Population Estimates Program, July 1, 2023 resident population (denominator)) (opens in a new tab)

National value: 42.4 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 24.4 %
RI 50.5 %
DE 15.1 %
CT 63.5 %
NJ 42.6 %
MD 39.1 %
MA 41.5 %
VT 44.5 %
NH 45.9 %

Lowest: 15.1 to 35 %
Group 2: 35 to 41.2 %
Group 3: 41.2 to 43.3 %
Group 4: 43.3 to 47.5 %
Highest: 47.5 to 63.5 %

The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. The ranked value is itself derived; see the source table for the method. Values are as published in the source table.

Note: County Business Patterns counts employer establishments only; states' values for small subsectors may be withheld (blank) to avoid disclosing individual businesses.


1	Connecticut	63.5
2	Wisconsin	56.6
3	Indiana	50.8
4	Rhode Island	50.5
5	Illinois	49.9
6	Florida	49.4
6	Tennessee	49.4
8	Minnesota	49.2
9	Pennsylvania	47.8
10	Georgia	47.6
11	Ohio	47.5
12	Iowa	46
13	New Hampshire	45.9
14	Oregon	45.7
15	Colorado	45
16	Vermont	44.5
17	Kansas	44.4
18	South Carolina	44.3
19	Hawaii	43.7
20	Louisiana	43.6
21	Missouri	43.3
22	Kentucky	43.1
23	Arizona	42.9
24	New Jersey	42.6
25	New Mexico	42.3
26	Michigan	42
26	Texas	42
28	Nevada	41.9
29	Nebraska	41.7
30	Massachusetts	41.5
31	West Virginia	41.2
32	Washington	40.1
33	Alabama	39.7
33	Arkansas	39.7
35	Idaho	39.5
36	Maryland	39.1
37	Maine	38.6
38	California	37.3
39	Virginia	36.1
40	Montana	35.5
41	North Carolina	35
41	Oklahoma	35
43	Mississippi	34.8
44	North Dakota	33.7
45	Wyoming	33.1
46	New York	29.2
46	South Dakota	29.2
48	Utah	26.7
49	Alaska	25.6
50	District of Columbia	24.4
51	Delaware	15.1

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023 (API dataset 2023/cbp), NAICS 2017 codes 52, 522, 523, 524 and 00 (all sectors)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, July 1, 2023 resident population (denominator). Reference period: 2023.

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U.S. states ranked by insurance share of finance and insurance jobs (%, derived) (2023). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, County Business Patterns 2023 (API dataset 2023/cbp), NAICS 2017 sector 52 (finance and insurance) and subsectors 522, 523, 524; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-10. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-insurance-share-of-finance-and-insurance-jobs/

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