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This is going to surprise everyone here, but there are actually salaried jobs to sell life insurance. I will agree it is just about as rare as the do-do bird, but they do exist!
I have an agency who pays everyone a salary, I have 5 reps in that office who sell life insurance as at least 50% of their production. They do get an arbitrary bonus quarterly, but as they say the bonus is really more about effort than production quotas.
The guy who owns the agency says he wants people to know they have a home to go to even after a bad day/week/month and he doesn't want them making sales for the wrong reason (He wants them to sell clients what the client needs to buy, not what the agent needs to sell). Personally I don't agree with this logic 100%. It sounds nice but ultimately I think their agents often cop out and sell the "easy" product (term) instead of spending time sharing with the client why they should put $10,000 a year towards this insurance plan.
This is a 4th generation agency and they can afford this luxury. I work with several hundred other agents and this is the only "salary" situation I am aware of, but it does exist.
The dodo is extinct...
Salaried positions usually have giant quotas which, if you hit, you could possibly make more on commission.
I agree with your sentiments, though!