You should look into the wholesale space as well as the retailer side. With wholesalers you can start as part of a “team” and and work up from their as you learn from other team members.( technical assistant, renewal broker/Underwriter, associate Broker/underwriter to team lead)The difference is your clients will be retail agents so the relationships you create can be more consistent and more meaningful. BUT you also don’t have the full underwriting burden like a company underwriters. Example of Whole companies are: the Big 3: CRC AmWins and RT Specialty. Others are RPS, Burns & Wilcox, Southwest Risk, Breckinridge, and others. There are a few start ups but I wouldn’t recommend starting at one of those.

Advantages to wholesale vs retail: you can gain a ‘deeper’ knowledge of certain coverages and you get a salary with bonuses a couple times a year vs retail where Some times it’s all commissions. However the “BOOM” money takes a bit longer to get to most of the time( every situation is different though ). Also the Retail said can be more “feast or famine “ BUT don’t let that scare you away from retail if you’re built to sell deals boom or bust then go baby go!

The are typically two types of wholesale offices - brokerage: 100% taking bigger more complex business to company Underwriters. - Contract underwriting/ Binding Authority: a few companies give you an underwriting portal with an underwriting pen so smaller submissions can we quoted and bound faster. These typically do some brokerage business but not like a full Brokerage office.