Sterling is a step closer to winning 250 call-center jobs to be provided by an Ohio-based auto-insurance company.
Safe Auto Insurance, a Columbus-based consumer-direct insurance firm, has moved the northeastern Colorado city into “round three” in its site selection process, according to an e-mail sent Wednesday by Timothy Edgar, the Logan County Chamber of Commerce executive director.
Safe Auto is looking to hire management and human-resources workers, offering an average salary of $35,000, according to a Sept. 28 Sterling Journal-Advocate report.
Any infusion of jobs will “boost our economy (and) lower our unemployment,” Edgar wrote.
Edgar and other Sterling economic-development officials did not immediately return phone calls Wednesday afternoon.
Safe Auto currently markets the state-required minimum-limit personal automobile-insurance coverage in 12 states but not in Colorado, according to its website.
If Sterling is picked, it is unclear whether the company would begin offering coverage in Colorado.
Staff writer Will Shanley can be reached at 303-820-1260 or wshanley@denverpost.com.
