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The California Administrator license

Administrator

Collects charges or premiums from, or adjusts or settles claims on, California residents under somebody else's life or health cover or annuity. California issues it as a certificate of registration and asks for no residency at all, which most of its licenses do require.

Course

None

This license has no pre-licensing course route.

Ways in

1

There is no state exam for this license.

Exam

n/a

Not required on any of the routes below.

Every way to qualify

  1. Route 1 Apply for the certificate of registration

    No state exam for this license

    California Insurance Code section 1759: "A Certificate of Registration as an administrator is issued to a person who collects any charge or premium from, or who adjusts or settles claims on, residents of this State in connection with life or health insurance coverage or annuities or coverage described in Section 740 of the CIC."The Department records prelicensing experience or education, continuing education and the examination all as Not required, and asks only for eighteen years of age and the application, with the Commissioner free to require any other document that helps decide whether the applicant qualifies. California residency is expressly not required. $188 on a two-year term, and $188 to renew.

    Read at the Department on 2026-08-20

California asks nothing taught and gives no examination for this license, so there is nothing for a school to sell against it.