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Actuarial Jobs by Type of Employer

What kinds of firms or organizations employ actuaries? Here's the breakdown of the active membership of the Casualty Actuarial Society and the Society of Actuaries.

Casualty Actuarial Society

Academic 18
Brokers & Agents 145
Consultants 815
Government 86
Life & Accident, Health 40
Property Liability 2068
Reinsurance 522
Retired 315
Organizations Serving the Industry 142
Other 407

Society of Actuaries

Insurance companies 6,886
Consulting firms 5,701
Insurance brokerages 60
State insurance departments and other government offices 397
University and college educators 189
Investment houses and banks 273
Software developers/vendors 170
Organizations serving the insurance industry 144
Miscellaneous 304
Unaffiliated 816

Top Firms Employing Actuaries

(by number of actuaries employed)

Life, Health, and Pension Actuaries

Company or organization No. employed % of SOA membership
Mercer Human Resource Consulting 526 13.2
Towers Perrin 415 10.4
Watson Wyatt Worldwide 333 8.3
Hewitt Associates LLC 199 5
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP 153 3.8
Buck Consultants Inc. 149 3.7
Aon Consulting 128 3.2
Milliman & Robertson Inc. 101 2.5
Morneau Sobeco 60 1.5
The Segal Company 51 1.3
Group-conseil Aon 46 1.1

Casualty Actuaries

Company or organization No. employed % of CAS membership
The Travelers Companies, Inc. 183 4.3
Towers Perrin 114 2.7
Swiss Reinsurance Corporation 103 2.4
Liberty Mutual Group 101 2.3
Milliman, Inc. 89 2.0
The Hartford 78 1.8
Zurich North America 74 1.7
Nationwide Insurance Company 73 1.7
AIG 72 1.7
ACE 71 1.7
CNA Insurance Companies 67 1.5

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