2007 Best Practices Study
Agencies with Revenues over $25,000,000
 
   
 

 

Service Staff

Service Staff is defined in the study as typically non-commissioned employees who have responsibility—either directly (e.g., Account Executives (AE), Account Managers (AM), Customer Service Representatives (CSRs), Assistant CSRs, etc.) or indirectly (e.g., Claims Specialist, Placer/ Marketer, etc.) —to provide or support the delivery of service to the agency's clients.

Customer Service Staff
  Average +25% Profit +25% Growth
Total # of Service Staff:
(as defined above) 152.8 129.3 148.4
% of Peer Agencies Having:
Separate/Dedicated Marketing Department 60.0% 71.4% 57.1%
Separate/Dedicated Claims Department 80.0% 71.4% 71.4%
Assistants for CSRs/Account Managers 92.0% 85.7% 100.0%


TPA Service Staff
  Average +25% Profit +25% Growth
% of Peer Agencies Having:
Workers Comp TPA 28.0% 0.0% 57.1%
# of Service Staff 9.7 * 6.6
Total TPA Revenues Serviced $824,854 * $574,292
Group Benefits TPA 16.0% 14.3% 28.6%
# of Service Staff 29.4 * *
Total TPA Revenues Serviced $7,730,221 * *

 

 
     
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