Actuaries crunch numbers to calculate risk -- a career path that's a safe bet

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February 20, 2009

Actuaries crunch numbers to calculate risk -- a career path that's a safe bet

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Pay: The 150 actuaries in the Seattle-Bellevue-Tacoma area earned a median wage of $75,090 in 2007.

The job: Actuaries use their math and business skills to assess the risk of events occurring and help create policies to benefit their companies and clients. Actuaries are essential to the insurance industry, which employs most of them.

Demand: Employment is expected to increase much faster than the average.

Training: Usually, actuaries earn a bachelor's degree in math, statistics or actuarial science. National certification is achieved through testing.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: www.stats.bls.gov/oco