Most UK pricing teams report 6–12 months to basic independence, and 12–18 months before someone can properly own a piece of the portfolio.
Weeks from Day 1 to independent, contributing work
This is the gap most teams never put a number on
It's not really an onboarding question. Every extra month before someone's independent is a month your senior pricers spend training instead of pricing.
Across 3 analysts, that's roughly 18 months of pricing capacity back this year
Pathfinders arrive after a 10-week, insurance-only Academy and reach independent, contributing work in around 90 days on the job — not months of shadow-and-hope.
How we work this out
The 90-day figure for Pricing Pathfinders™ and the 6–12 / 12–18 month benchmarks for typical in-house ramp-up come from our own Time-to-Productivity research across UK pricing teams. "Independent" means owning a small piece of real pricing work end-to-end, inside your governance, without a senior having to redo it. Your own numbers will move with process maturity, mentoring capacity and role complexity.
Want to know what pricing talent actually costs to hire and retain? Our Insurance Pricing Salary Guide 2026 has the benchmarks. Or read the full Time-to-Productivity breakdown this tool is based on.
Your last hire took months to get useful. This one won't.
Plug in your own numbers and see exactly how many months of pricing capacity you get back with Pricing Pathfinders™.