Insurance recruiters working the Des Moines, IA market.
Contingency search for producers, account managers, and CSRs at independent agencies across Central Iowa — a metro with an unusually concentrated insurance-industry talent base, anchored by Principal Financial Group and EMC Insurance Group. No retainer, no fee until we deliver a hire.
An insurance-industry hometown, not just a Midwest metro
Des Moines has been nicknamed the "Hartford of the West" and the "Insurance Capital" for well over a century — a reputation that traces back to Iowa's insurance-friendly regulatory environment, including a premium tax among the lowest in the country and no premium tax at all on qualified life insurance products. That policy has pulled a disproportionate number of carriers to headquarter in the metro relative to its size. Principal Financial Group, a Fortune 500 retirement, asset management, and insurance company, is still headquartered downtown today. EMC Insurance Group, one of the country's larger property-casualty mutuals, is headquartered a few blocks away on Mulberry Street.
For hiring, that concentration shows up less as a wage premium — the metro's overall pay levels actually run below the national mean, consistent with Iowa's lower cost of living — and more as depth: a metro this size carries an outsized share of carrier-side actuarial, underwriting, and claims professionals who came up inside the same handful of home offices. That's a different candidate pool than most of our independent-agency searches typically draw from, and it means strong producers and account managers here are often recruited out of, or compete directly against, in-house carrier roles rather than just other agencies.
Wage data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, via the Midwest Information Office's Des Moines Area Economic Summary.
Not a local staffing agency — a national search firm that treats Des Moines as its own market
We don't have a Des Moines office, and we're not trying to be a generalist local shop. Arogom Insurance is a contingency search firm dedicated to independent insurance agencies — our recruiters build candidate pipelines specifically for Des Moines and the surrounding Central Iowa insurance market, the same way they do for every other market we work.
- Des Moines-metro searches for independent agencies, start to finish
- No retainer, no upfront fee — pay only on a hire
- Candidates qualified against your agency's book before you see them
Built for Des Moines-area independent agencies
Have an open role at a Des Moines-area agency?
Contingency recruiting — you only pay when we deliver a hire.
Des Moines & the Central Iowa insurance market, specifically
Do you have an office in Des Moines?
No — Arogom Insurance is a national contingency search firm, not a local staffing agency. Our recruiters work the Des Moines market specifically; we're just not tied to a single metro's candidate pool the way a local shop is.
What's different about hiring insurance talent in Des Moines?
Des Moines has been nicknamed the "Hartford of the West" and the "Insurance Capital" for over a century, largely because Iowa's unusually low insurance premium tax pulled a disproportionate number of carriers to headquarter here, including Principal Financial Group and EMC Insurance Group. That leaves a genuinely deep bench of carrier-side actuarial, underwriting, and claims talent relative to the metro's size — a different pool than most of our independent-agency searches draw from elsewhere, and one that means producers here often compete against in-house carrier roles, not just other agencies.
Do you cover the wider Des Moines / Central Iowa insurance market, not just the city itself?
Yes. We treat the Des Moines metro as one market — Des Moines, West Des Moines, Ankeny, Urbandale, Waukee, Johnston, and the surrounding Polk, Dallas, and Warren county communities are all inside the same commuting and candidate pool, and we search across all of it.
Do you charge a retainer?
No. Arogom Insurance is contingency-only — there's no retainer and no upfront cost. You only pay a fee if you hire someone we source.
How do I start a search?
Email hello@arogom.com with the role, agency, and your timeline, or use the request button on this page — we'll follow up directly.
