Florida·Business and Financial Operations Occupations·SOC 13-1031

Best Claims Adjuster programs in Florida, ranked by enrollment

Review settled claims to determine that payments and settlements are made in accordance with company practices and procedures. Confer with legal counsel on claims requiring litigation.

3 schools in Florida run programs that feed this job, graduating 107 people a year. The job pays a median of $76,920 in Florida across about 28,100 jobs (BLS OEWS May 2025).

Also calledClaims AnalystClaims AdjusterClaims ExaminerClaims RepresentativeAdjusterClaims AgentInvestigatorFire Adjuster
Graduates / yr
107
in Florida
Median pay · Florida
$76,920
BLS OEWS May 2025
Jobs in state
28,100
people employed
Schools
3
with a feeder program
Avg graduation rate
75%
across those schools
Median net price
per year, IPEDS

Fields of study in Florida that lead to this job

Grouped at the 4-digit CIP level. Numbers are graduates per year in this state.

1 programs in Florida that lead to this job

Ranked by graduates per year in Florida (IPEDS completions). Graduate earnings and debt are national College Scorecard figures reported at the 4-digit CIP level, so specializations within one field share a figure. Each program also links to its own Florida page.

Degree programs that lead to this occupation, ranked by graduates per year
#ProgramGraduates / yrShare of pipelineSchoolsGrad earnings (1 yr)Median debt
1
CIP 52.1701In Florida
107
100.0%
3$56,988$22,500

Top 3 schools in Florida

Ranked by graduates per year into this job. Graduate earnings are reported for 1 of the 3 schools in this state.

Schools ranked by graduates per year into this occupation
#SchoolGraduates / yrTop feeder programGrad earnings (1 yr)Grad rateNet priceAcceptance
1Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL Public · 1 feeder programs
92Insurance$61,07186%24%
2Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL Public · 1 feeder programs
10Insurance63%66%
3University of South Florida
Tampa, FL Public · 1 feeder programs
5Insurance77%43%

All 3 schools in Florida

Every school in Florida with a program that feeds this job, ordered by graduates per year. Earnings are shown for the ranked schools above; open a school profile for the rest.

All schools in Florida that feed this occupation
SchoolCityControlGraduates / yrFeeder programs
Florida State UniversityTallahasseePublic921
Florida Atlantic UniversityBoca RatonPublic101
University of South FloridaTampaPublic51

What claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators earn in Florida

What people already working in this job earn (BLS OEWS May 2025). Not graduate earnings.

Median annual in Florida
$76,920
Mean annual
$76,760
Jobs in state
28,100
What the range looks like
10th pct$47,030Median$76,92090th pct$105,150
Versus the national median
-1.4%

U.S. median $78,000. Florida pays below the national figure.

Job concentration
1.36×

Concentrated here: Florida employs more of this job per worker than the U.S. average.

Metro areas in Florida

Naples-Marco Island, FL
$83,780median
130 jobs
Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL
$80,970median
300 jobs
Sebastian-Vero Beach-West Vero Corridor, FL
$78,730median
30 jobs
Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL
$80,160median
280 jobs
North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL
$79,970median
460 jobs
Panama City-Panama City Beach, FL
$79,390median
70 jobs
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL
$78,730median
5,210 jobs
Ocala, FL
$76,400median
100 jobs

Job outlook

Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections, 2024 to 2034.

Projected growth 2024–34
-5.1%
Decline
Openings per year
21,100
new jobs plus replacements
Employment change
-18,200
356,100 → 337,900
Typical entry education
High school diploma or equivalent
Plus long-term on-the-job training

Growth and openings are national. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish employment projections at state level, so these figures describe the occupation across the whole U.S., not this state alone.

How to get in

The full skills, tools, and day-to-day breakdown lives on the national Claims Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators page.

How to become a Claims Adjuster

Job zone 4 of 5 · SVP 7.0 to < 8.0
Typical entry education
High school diploma or equivalent
On-the-job training
Long-term on-the-job training

Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.

A considerable amount of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.

Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.

Top skills

Reading ComprehensionActive ListeningCritical ThinkingSpeakingWritingMonitoring

The same job in other states

Where else this occupation employs the most people, and what it pays there.

Related careers in Florida

Every major mapped to this job

The official federal mapping behind the rankings above.

All 2 majors mapped to Claims Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators2 of them graduated someone in the latest IPEDS year. NCES CIP 2020 → SOC 2018 crosswalk.+
  • 51.0715Health/Medical Claims Examiner
  • 52.1701Insurance

Common questions

Answers for people weighing claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators programs in Florida.

What degree do you need to become a Claims Adjuster?+

High school diploma or equivalent is the typical entry-level education BLS reports for this occupation. The most common program people actually graduate from is Insurance, which awarded 107 degrees in Florida in 2024-25, 100.0% of everyone graduating from a program that feeds this career.

Which college majors lead to becoming a Claims Adjuster?+

The NCES CIP-to-SOC crosswalk maps 1 programs to this occupation. The largest are Insurance. Together they graduate about 107 people a year in Florida.

How much do claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators earn in Florida?+

The median is $76,920 a year (BLS OEWS May 2025). That is 1.4% below the U.S. median of $78,000. This is pay for people already working in the occupation, not the same thing as graduate earnings one year after finishing a degree.

Is demand for claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators growing?+

BLS projects a -5.1% change in employment between 2024 and 2034, decline, with roughly 21,100 openings a year nationally once retirements and job changes are counted.

How many schools offer programs for this career in Florida?+

3 institutions in Florida reported graduates from at least one of the 1 programs that feed this occupation in IPEDS 2024-25. Rankings on this page use graduates per year, because the federal data publishes no enrollment count by program.

What other job titles do claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators work under?+

Employers advertise this work under many names. O*NET records Claims Analyst, Claims Adjuster, Claims Examiner, Claims Representative among the most commonly reported, all mapping to SOC 13-1031.

Claims Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators in other statesPennsylvaniaGeorgiaKansasWisconsinSouth CarolinaIllinoisOhioMissouri
Programs in FloridaInsurance

About the data on this page

Rankings use IPEDS completions 2024–25, degrees awarded per year. That is the closest federal measure of how many people a program puts into a career, because no federal dataset publishes enrollment by program. Wages and employment come from BLS OEWS May 2025, growth and openings from BLS Employment Projections 2024-34, and which majors lead to which jobs from the NCES CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk. Occupation descriptions, tasks, skills and tools are O*NET 30.3 (CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor/ETA).

  • BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics

    May 2025

    Wages, employment counts, location quotients and metro breakdowns.

  • BLS Employment Projections

    2024–34

    Projected growth, annual openings and typical entry-level education.

  • IPEDS Completions

    2024-25 (provisional)

    Graduates per year by program and institution — the ranking metric.

  • College Scorecard, Field of Study

    2020-21 cohorts

    Median graduate earnings one year after completion, and median debt.

  • Census Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes

    latest available

    Graduate earnings 1/5/10 years out, where the state participates.

  • NCES CIP 2020 and the CIP-to-SOC 2018 crosswalk

    CIP 2020 / SOC 2018

    Which college programs officially lead to this occupation.

  • O*NET Database 30.3

    30.3

    Tasks, skills, knowledge, tools, job zone and alternate job titles.

    Official source →CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor / ETA

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