California has the highest number of health plan employees, with over 150,000 workers.
According to a new report from AHIP, almost 700,000 people in the U.S. are direct employees of health plans.
Here's how many people health insurers employ in each state:
- California: 163,488 health plan employees
- Pennsylvania: 47,124 health plan employees
- Florida: 36,252 health plan employees
- Minnesota: 31,219 health plan employees
- Texas: 30,397 health plan employees
- New York: 27,258 health plan employees
- Illinois: 24,265 health plan employees
- Ohio: 18,978 health plan employees
- Wisconsin: 17,988 health plan employees
- Virginia: 17,850 health plan employees
- Tennessee: 16,637 health plan employees
- Massachusetts: 15,126 health plan employees
- Michigan: 14,491 health plan employees
- Kentucky: 14,428 health plan employees
- Georgia: 14,342 health plan employees
- Oregon: 13,656 health plan employees
- Arizona: 13,248 health plan employees
- Washington: 13,228 health plan employees
- Connecticut: 12,372 health plan employees
- South Carolina: 11,773 health plan employees
- Indiana: 11,633 health plan employees
- North Carolina: 11,179 health plan employees
- Colorado: 10,299 health plan employees
- Missouri: 10,133 health plan employees
- Maryland: 9,784 health plan employees
- New Jersey: 9,578 health plan employees
- Hawaii: 7,486 health plan employees
- Nebraska: 7,136 health plan employees
- Louisiana: 5,367 health plan employees
- Alabama: 5,029 health plan employees
- Arkansas: 4,442 health plan employees
- New Mexico: 3,932 health plan employees
- Kansas: 3,827 health plan employees
- Iowa: 3,691 health plan employees
- Oklahoma: 3,512 health plan employees
- Utah: 3,312 health plan employees
- Maine: 2,807 health plan employees
- Idaho: 2,670 health plan employees
- Nevada: 2,594 health plan employees
- North Dakota: 2,199 health plan employees
- New Hampshire: 2,090 health plan employees
- Rhode Island: 1,595 health plan employees
- District of Columbia: 1,590 health plan employees
- West Virginia: 1,520 health plan employees
- Mississippi: 1,348 health plan employees
- Delaware: 1,308 health plan employees
- South Dakota: 899 health plan employees
- Montana: 649 health plan employees
- Vermont: 547 health plan employees
- Wyoming: 357 health plan employees
- Alaska: 86 health plan employees