Gallagher

Global insurance brokerage & risk-management
Last updated:
January 6, 2026
Company details
HQ
Rolling Meadows, IL
HEADCOUNT
10000+
ORG TYPE
Corporate
SECTOR
Finance
About the company
Gallagher is a global insurance brokerage, risk management, and consulting company serving businesses, public sector entities, and nonprofits. Gallagher places coverage with insurance carriers, advises on risk, and provides services such as claims and third-party administration through the risk management segment. Gallagher also supports employers with people and benefits-related consulting. Gallagher grows through a mix of organic hiring and frequent acquisitions across many local markets.
Locations and presence
Gallagher’s principal executive offices are in Rolling Meadows, Illinois (United States). Gallagher states a footprint of 1,300 offices globally and 130+ countries served, with roles typically tied to local offices and client teams rather than remote-first work.
Palpable Score
75.0
/ 100
Gallagher offers a lot of practical ways in for students and new grads, especially through a long-running sales internship pipeline and structured trainee programs for client service and entry insurance roles. Gallagher shares some concrete process and program detail, and paid training appears built into several pathways. The score is capped because public outcome data like conversion rates, early-tenure retention, and typical promotion timelines is limited, and candidate experience consistency varies by office and role.
Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

17.7
/ 20
  • The company positions the Gallagher Sales Internship Program as a large, recurring intake and cites approximately 500 interns in summer 2024 in the annual report.
  • Gallagher runs multiple early-career tracks beyond internships, including the Achieve program for client service trainees and additional program-branded pathways listed under early-career programs.
  • The company offers country-specific graduate options as well, including a 12-month rotational graduate program in Australia that hires graduates as permanent employees from day one.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

14.2
/ 20
  • The company publishes an application process outline for early-career programs with staged steps (online application through interviews and decisions), which helps first-time applicants anticipate what happens next.
  • Gallagher’s intern and graduate candidate reports show a repeatable pattern for many roles (screening call, interviews, and office-based “super day” style rounds), but round counts and pace vary by office.
  • The company has mixed public candidate feedback on follow-up speed and scheduling, which makes fairness and transparency feel team-dependent rather than uniform.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

16.1
/ 20
  • The company describes structured development programs that combine classroom, virtual, and on-the-job training in Achieve, aimed at building client service capability over an 18-month schedule.
  • Gallagher states in the annual report that interns receive professional development and on-the-job sales training, and the company references large-scale learning access (35,000+ training modules across 18 languages).
  • The company’s culture and benefits materials list educational assistance and wellbeing support, which matters for early-career learning after the first onboarding period.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

14.1
/ 20
  • The company shows pay transparency on at least some entry routes, including a U.S. Sales Internship posting listing $20–$26 per hour.
  • Gallagher frames paid training as part of early-career programs, with Achieve postings stating that training time counts as paid working time.
  • The company lists broad benefits and wellbeing support (including 401(k) options, paid parental leave, and educational assistance), but salary ranges are not consistently visible across all early-career postings and geographies.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

12.9
/ 20
  • The company publishes early-career pipeline outcomes in qualitative terms, including that “growing our own” is a long-standing strategy and that interns are positioned to accelerate into full-time sales careers.
  • Gallagher has strong intern sentiment signals in public reviews, with intern reviewers rating the experience very highly and often citing exposure to client work and intern programming.
  • The company does not publish standard early-career outcomes like intern-to-offer rates, time-to-promotion for graduates, or early-tenure retention for trainee programs, which limits confidence on consistency across offices.

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