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#Discover Farmers® Insurance
#History/mission
#Community relations
#Farmers agent at a glance
#Farmers agency opportunity
#Unlimited financial potential
#Recognition and incentive programs
#Corporate support for your success
#Training for your success
#The market opportunity
#The Farmers portfolio of products
#I'm ready to take the challenge!
#Online Application


Discover the rewards of working for the best boss you’ll ever have - YOU!

Farmers Insurance offers the best entrepreneurial opportunity in the country today.  Learn more about the unique benefits of becoming a Farmers agent.  Or, fill out an online application.

Discover Farmers® Insurance

Farmers Insurance Group has been built on a 77-year history of landmark achievements and dedication of service to our customers. Today, we’re one of the largest Auto and Homeowners insurance companies in the United States, with more than 30,000 professionals nationwide. We're a leader in the Business insurance market, and we provide valuable Life insurance and financial products to millions of Americans.

• Hispanic 100

  Hispanic magazine named Farmers to its Corporate 100 list as one of top 100 companies that provide Hispanics/Latinos the most opportunities.

• Selling Power - Best Company to Sell For
   

  Selling Power magazine ranked Farmers the No. 2 best insurance company to sell for in 2001 based on compensation, training and career mobility. In 2003, Farmers was also ranked No. 14 on Selling Power’s exclusive Selling Power 500 list as one of the most prestigious of sales-driven organizations today

History/mission

In 1928, Thomas E. Leavey and John C. Tyler founded the first Farmers Company in California. Today, the Farmers Companies (also known as Farmers Insurance Group®) are the country's third-largest writer of private passenger Auto and Homeowners insurance.

The Farmers Companies operate in 41 states across the country, servicing more than 15 million customers through the efforts of approximately 18,000 employees and 17,500 agents who are independent-contractor and independent agents.

Farmers New World Life Insurance Company, Mercer Island, Washington, offers a wide range of products from a fully flexible Universal Life product to traditional Term and Whole Life plans and annuities, all marketed by Farmers agents.

Farmers Financial Solutions, LLC, Simi Valley, California, offers a variety of financial products such as mutual funds, Variable Annuities, and Variable Universal Life products, which help build savings for customers’ future needs, such as retirement and college savings.

Farmers acquired the Foremost Insurance Company, Caledonia Michigan, in March 2000. It leads the industry in insuring specialty products such as mobile homes, motor homes, travel trailers and specialty dwellings.

Community relations

Since our founding in 1928, we’ve been committed to improving the communities in which our customers, agents and employees live and work. Investing in our communities is nothing new to Farmers - for many decades, we’ve been proud, active partners in bettering the lives of our neighbors across the country.

We continue to invest considerable resources in programs that improve safety, enhance educational opportunity and increase civic participation in communities across America.

For instance, Farmers has committed much to special initiatives that enhance the ability of our nation's teachers to engage students in becoming better citizens. In partnership with the National Council for the Social Studies, Farmers created The American Promise program in 1995.

Through its citizenship-education curriculum and videos, more than 100,000 teachers have been able to share with their students the inspiring stories of citizens who are improving their own communities.

Farmers believes that our country’s diverse groups and cultures enrich every American. To promote greater cross-cultural understanding, Farmers has created a program honoring the Hispanic/Latino culture called

Young Americanos. Young Americanos reflects our commitment to the Latino community and to building bridges of communication and understanding among all the cultures making up the United States.

Farmers agent at a glance

For someone with drive and ambition, becoming a Farmers agent provides a unique opportunity to incorporate a variety of roles into one career. Farmers agents are not only sales people, but independent business people, counselors and financial advisors. This is a career in which you can capitalize on your strengths and fulfill your personal and professional aspirations.

Why Farmers?

• The Farmers agency opportunity
• Unlimited financial potential
• Recognition and incentive programs
• Corporate support for your success
• Training for your success
• The market opportunity

Farmers agency opportunity

Farmers agents aren’t employees; they’re independent contractors who can conduct business on their own terms, given they comply with Farmers Companies’ guidelines and normal good-business practices.

This independence allows Farmers agents to live their lives the way they choose, not the way someone else chooses.

One of the unique benefits of Farmers is its comprehensive product offering. Accidents, risk management and asset accumulation: these are becoming essential in today’s world. Farmers agents offer the products that ensure their customers’ lives are restored to order as well as bring them closer to their future goals. Through hard work and professional dedication, our agents help to give their customers the security they deserve.

You too can gain a great deal of personal satisfaction by providing your customers with this valuable service.

 

Unlimited financial potential

New-business commissions
Our commissions structure pays some of the industry’s highest commissions.

Service commissions (renewals)
As your customer base grows, so does your income because you’re paid a service commission every time your customers renew with Farmers and your agency.

Contract value
Whenever you choose to relinquish your agency, you’re paid what’s called a "Contract Value." Based on your number of years as an agent and your number of active policies, this Contract Value can translate into a significant amount of money.

Family Rights Provisions
You even have the option to sell your agency to an approved family member, making it a business that you can pass down through generations.

Recognition and incentive programs

Achievement clubs and travel
Recognition of your outstanding performance in the form of trips to top resort locations such as Hawaii, New Orleans and Los Angeles

Monetary bonuses
Bonuses based on profitability and production

District promotions
Additional awards and recognition among your immediate peers

Continuing education
Assistance for continual training and education to develop your skills further (if eligible)

Advertising assistance
Assistance for advertising costs, in compliance with program guidelines

Contract value bonus
Additional bonuses based on the equity you’ve built into your business

Corporate support for your success

 

Corporate support

At Farmers, you’re in business for yourself - but not by yourself. You have freedom as an entrepreneur, but can lean on the strength of one of the world's most established group of insurance companies - Farmers® Insurance Group. You also have help from a local district manager and corporate personnel. Farmers provides continual support in technology, customer service, marketing and education. With Farmers, we work together for your success.

Financial assistance

Farmers understands that growing a business takes time and money - so we give new agents a stable financial base in the form of a financial subsidy while they’re developing their agencies. Agents may be eligible to receive this subsidy for their first two years as an agent. This helps pay for start-up and expansion costs and alleviates the financial strain of starting a business.

Farmers seeks to reward their most dedicated agents. So, new agents may also be eligible to receive additional financial assistance to help pay for specific business expenses depending on their level of sales production after their first six months of full-time status.

Training for your success

Farmers Companies’ agent-training program equips you with all the tools you need to develop your business skills and expertise necessary to make a positive impact on your customers’ lives.

Reserve agent training
Your training program can be designed around your needs. Our program, the Business Builder Agent Development System, gives you the training you need with the flexibility to transition into your new career at your own pace. It is so flexible that it allows you to keep your current job and start part-time. With day and evening classes, you can incorporate training into your busy lifestyle.

State-of-the-art training tools
Our Business Builder system is supported by the Farmers Virtual University, an online training tool that makes training for your career even easier. It allows you to train at your own pace from your personal computer at any time - 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The market opportunity

Farmers offers a wide variety of products to protect your customers’ assets and build their wealth. From Auto and Homeowners insurance to annuities and Life insurance, you can give your customers what they want and - more important - what they need for their current situations and their future dreams.

The Farmers brand name has come to be synonymous with top-quality insurance and financial products as well as excellent customer service. Your association with Farmers puts you in an exclusive group of reputable insurance and financial professionals - a feat that many business owners have to struggle for years to accomplish.

Being a Farmers agent today is more exciting than ever. Ever since Farmers Financial Solutions® (FFS) was introduced, agents have been able to offer their customers the products - mutual funds, Variable Annuities and Variable Universal Life products - to help secure their financial futures. Now that FFS has reached $1 billion in assets managed, the sky is the limit for agents who want to seize the opportunity help their customers work toward their financial goals

The Farmers portfolio of products
 

• Auto  
• Home  
• Life  
• Financial products  
• Value Added products  
• Business insurance

I'm ready to take the challenge!

Farmers seeks the highest-quality people. Many variables determine the success of an agent, and most of our successful agents possess specific characteristics. When selecting agent candidates, we look for individuals who are:

• Dedicated to success
• Articulate
• Ethical and responsible
• Entrepreneurial
• Confident and poised
• Persuasive
• Independent

Farmers customers - and agents - come from all backgrounds. We value diversity and look continually for first-rate people whose individual perspectives and talents will affect our business positively.  

So why wait? Start an exciting new career as a Farmers insurance agent today. For more information, fill out our online application, and a Farmers representative will contact you shortly

Complete Farmers online application.