Who is the highest-paid insurance agent? (2024)

The highest-paid insurance agent is Gideon du Plessis. Gideon is from India, but sales insurance works wide. He earns an annual commission amounting to $70 million.

A record he has maintained over the last 12-14 years, selling 700 policies yearly. What's equally impressive is that Gideon failed in the 10th standard and never went to college. Yet today, he is the highest-earning insurance agent in the world.

Plessis' lives by 12 mantras that have taken him so far since he got into the insurance selling profession 23 years back.

Plessis' daily mantras are;

• See at least six to eight people daily

• Selling is not telling: ask a lot of questions go back with a solution.

• Attend to details

• Go soft in life

• Delegate staff

• People buy people, not policies

• Educate yourself properly

• Time management

• Wake up to achieve what you want

• Elephants don't bite, mosquitoes do

• Desire

• Enthusiasm