How to become an Insurance Representative
Official title: Insurance Representatives
Sells all kinds of insurance and gives advice.
Main tasks
- Decide the type of insurance based on the client's needs, and agree cover amounts and policy types with clients based on the level of risk
- Negotiate and place reinsurance contracts
- Advise on and negotiate insurance contracts for larger or specialised schemes
Ways in
- Technical college: Technical and vocational college programme. Universities of science and technology and junior colleges run departments in related fields: finance, banking and insurance (0412). Departments in academic year 114 (2025-26): four-year technical bachelor's (四技) 5, two-year technical bachelor's (二技) 1, five-year junior college (五專) 1. Fields matched to the occupation by Peernovo.
- Licence (national exam): Regulated profession. To practise as a insurance agent or broker you must pass the national Professional and Technical Examination (專門職業及技術人員考試) for 財產保險代理人、人身保險代理人、財產保險經紀人、人身保險經紀人 and hold the certificate. Listed in the annex to article 2 of the Enforcement Rules of the Professional and Technical Examinations Act, item 21.
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Average pay: NT$1,013,000 a year
- Demand for Business and administration jobs is projected at about 1,465,000 in 2024 and about 1,502,000 in 2030. (+2.5%)
- Generative AI could change many tasks in this job, which usually reshapes the work more than it replaces it, by the ILO's global estimate.
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Questions people ask
How do I become an Insurance Representative?
Ways in include: Technical and vocational college programme.
How much does an Insurance Representative earn in Taiwan?
Average pay is NT$1,013,000 a year (Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics).
Is an Insurance Representative a growing career in Taiwan?
Demand for this job family is projected to change 2.5% from 2024 to 2030 (National Development Council).
Will AI change the work of an Insurance Representative?
Generative AI could change many tasks in this job, which usually reshapes the work more than it replaces it, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics: Occupational Wage Survey (職類別薪資調查) (2025 survey (July 2025 monthly, 2024 annual), released 2026-05-29), Open Government Data License, version 1.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
- National Development Council: Final manpower demand projections by occupation (職業別最終人力需求推估) (2025 to 2030 (base 2024), 13 job families), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
- International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
Updated 4 October 2026