Jul 16, 2013
Executives
J. Powell Brown - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director Cory T.
Walker - Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer, Senior Vice President and Treasurer
Analysts
Michael Nannizzi - Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Research Division Mark D. Hughes - SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc., Research Division Gregory Locraft - Morgan Stanley, Research Division Adam Klauber - William Blair & Company L.L.C., Research Division Ryan J.
Byrnes - Janney Montgomery Scott LLC, Research Division Brett Huff - Stephens Inc., Research Division Meyer Shields - Keefe, Bruyette, & Woods, Inc., Research Division Elyse Greenspan - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division Joshua D. Shanker - Deutsche Bank AG, Research Division
Operator
Good day, good morning and welcome to the Brown & Brown, Inc. 2013 Second Quarter Earnings Call.
Today's call is being recorded. Please note that certain information discussed during this call, including answers given in response to your questions, may relate to future results and events or otherwise be forward-looking in nature and reflect our current views with respect to future events, including those related to the company's anticipated financial results for the first quarter of 2013.
Such statements are intended to fall within the Safe Harbor provisions of the securities laws. Actual results or events in the future are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties and may differ materially from those currently anticipated or desired or referenced in any forward-looking statements made as a result of a number of factors, including the company's determination as it finalizes its financial results for the first quarter of 2013, that its financial results differ from the current preliminary unaudited numbers set forth in the press release issued yesterday, other factors that the company may not have currently identified or quantified and those risks and uncertainties identified from time to time in the company's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Additional discussion of these and other factors affecting the company's business and prospects are contained in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We disclaim any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
With that said, I would now like to turn the call over to Mr. Powell Brown, President and Chief Executive Officer.
You may begin, sir.
J. Powell Brown
Thank you, Kyle. Good morning, everybody.
We had a 7.4% internal growth in Q2, and we're very pleased about that. All 4 divisions contributed to our $21.1 million of new growth dollars.
Retail was up 2.3%, and Wholesale and National Programs and Services were up 10% or more. So with that, I'd like to turn it to over to Cory for our financial update.
Cory T. Walker
Thanks, Powell. We did have another very good quarter.
And like we've said previously, we like the steady and consistent growth that our internal growth reflected. Our net income for the second quarter of 2013 of $52 million was up 22.4% over the second quarter of 2012.
Correspondingly, our net income per share for the quarter was $0.36, and that is 24.1% over the $0.29 from the second quarter of 2012. From a revenue standpoint, our commissions and fees for the quarter increased 11.8% to $324.2 million, and that's up from the $289.9 million from last year's second quarter.
We did receive 7.9% -- $7.9 million of profit-sharing contingent commissions, which represents a net increase of approximately $6.8 million. That's from the $1 million we received last year in the second quarter.
Of the $6.8 million of net increase, $1 million came from our Wholesale Brokerage division and $5.8 million came from our Program division, of which $4.5 million was generated in our FIU program. And as long as the wind continues to be quiet and not blow, we should continue to see nice profit-sharing contingency from FIU.
Our best estimate on how much profit-sharing contingent revenues that we should receive in the second half of 2013 is between $13 million and $15 million, of which we think $10 million to $11 million may come in the third quarter and then possibly, $3 million to $4 million in the fourth quarter. Additionally, we accrued $1.7 million of guaranteed supplemental commissions in the second quarter of 2013, and that is $560,000 less than the $2.3 million that we accrued in the second quarter of 2012.
This reduction is, again, in line with the fact that several carriers that used to pay us GSCs in lieu of profit-sharing contingent commissions have switched back to their profit-sharing contingent commission contracts. Now, looking at the internal growth schedule, as Powell mentioned, we had a consolidated internal growth rate of 7.4%.
For the second quarter, our total core commissions and fees increased 10.4% or $29.6 million of net additional commissions and fees. However, within that net number, we had $8.5 million of acquired revenues.
So that means that we had $21.1 million of additional commissions and fees from essentially the same-store sales basis. And as Powell mentioned, all 4 of our divisions had strong positive internal growth, and he'll talk about those a little bit later.
Our investment income was nearly flat with 2012, and our other income was up slightly of about $616,000, and that's due to a sale of certain books of businesses. Our pretax profit margin for the second quarter of 2013 was 26.5%, and that's compared to the 24.5% we had in the second quarter of 2012.
So that's an increase of 200 basis points. Employee compensation benefits, as a percentage of total revenue, was 50.2% in the current quarter, and that's a decrease from the 51.8% cost factor in last year's second quarter.
The total dollar increase on a net basis in employee compensation benefits was approximately $12.8 million or 8.5% increase, of which only $1.7 million was attributable to stand-alone acquisitions since last year. So therefore, excluding those impacts of the stand-alone acquisitions, we actually had $11 million of additional compensation on kind of a semi-same-store sales basis.
Of this increase, $1 million came from new salaries for new producers; $1.6 million was due to increased commission producer expenses because of the net new business; $5.6 million was due to the increase in staff salary, of which almost $3 million of that portion related to the new automobile aftermarket and the Everest programs in our National Programs division. We did have about $2.1 million of increased profit center bonuses and other bonuses because of the increased profitability, and that includes the net effect of the $1.3 million we accrued last year relating to the 5% bonus program for our retail commission producers.
And then finally, there was about $1 million of additional payroll taxes relating to the increased compensation. Our noncash stock grant compensation was down slightly by about $115,000.
However, on July 1, 2013, our Board of Directors approved a -- stock incentive plan grants to certain Beecher Carlson employees as part of the acquisition agreement. Additionally, the board also approved SIP grants to existing teammates.
These SIP grants are generally based on 5-year performance measurements and invest over a 5-, 6- and 7-year period. The total annual cost of these SIPs, including the grants to the Beecher Carlson teammates, is estimated to be about $15 million per year or about $0.06 per share.
Looking at our other operating expenses, they remained flat at 14.5% of total revenues for both second quarters 2012 and 2013. The other operating expenses increased $5.2 million or 12.3% over the same quarter of last year.
The new stand-alone acquisitions amounted to about $533,000 of the new cost. And so when you look at on a semi-same-store sales basis, the net increase in other operating expenses was about $4.6 million.
This net increase related primarily to $1.2 million of additional insurance inspection and servicing expense fees as a result of the net new business. There was a $1.8 million increase in legal and errors and omission reserves, which was partly the result of last year in the 2012 second quarter.
We had an $826,000 credit due to our legal E&O reserve reductions for certain cases. Additionally, we had $1 million of additional cost relating to our data processing and software licensing fees.
And additionally, we had about $700,000 increase in various employee meetings. From an EBITDA standpoint, our consolidated EBITDA in the second quarter of 2012 was 32.4%.
And with the internal growth, as we mentioned that, our leverage, our EBITDA margin for the second quarter of 2013 went to 34.1%, and that's 170 basis points improvement. If you look at our Retail division, last year's second quarter, our EBITDA margin was 32.8%.
And with very nice 2.3% internal revenue growth, the margins for the second quarter 2013 was 34.7%, and that's 190 basis point improvement. Our Program division last year had a 31.2% margin, and it moved up to 31.8%, a 60 basis points improvement.
Our Wholesale division went from 32.8% EBITDA in 2012 second quarter to 36.3% margin. And our Service division went from 24.7%, and it shrank slightly down to 24.1% margin; so overall, very nice improvement on our EBITDA margins.
Our amortization and depreciation in aggregate was up about $720,000 and that was due primarily to the acquisitions. Our interest expense was flat, with essentially no new debt as of June 30, 2013.
However, on July 1, relating to the Beecher Carlson acquisition, we did add another $60 million of debt, so the interest rate will move up based on that in future quarters. Our change in estimated acquisition earn-out payable was a debit in this year's second quarter of $656,000 versus last year.
In the second quarter, we had a $602,000 credit balance, so that's a $1.3 million swing in GAAP expense charge. Our effective tax rate for 2013 is currently expected to be running at about 39.7%.
And so really, in conclusion, with our net income of $52 million, it reflects a very nice 24.1% increase, and so we're very pleased with that. And so with that financial review, I'll turn it back to Powell.
J. Powell Brown
Great, Cory. Thanks, a good report.
On a retail basis, we're up 2.3% versus up 80 bps in Q1. In Florida, coastal property, we're seeing flat to up 10%; inland property, usually flat to up 5%; GL rates could be down 2% to up 5%; auto could be up 5% to 7% -- flat to up 5% to 7%.
Work comp is tightening. Carriers are less willing to offer consensual rate in Florida.
Work comp and auto actually are the toughest lines to place in Florida at present. Everybody's working off a model.
Profitable accounts are hard to get rate on. Inland property, you could actually see rate decreases every once in a while.
Poor construction, it's still hard to place, and contractors' payrolls in certain areas are up slightly. In the Southeast United States, particularly Texas, Oklahoma, Georgia, South Carolina, coastal property is plus 3% to 8% in South Carolina and Louisiana.
Inland, it's usually flat to up a little bit. And in Texas, the coastal property is under a little more pressure, 5% to 10-plus percent.
GL and auto rates are flat to up 5%. Work comp would be down slightly to up 10% in rate.
Exposure units in that part of the country are flat to up slightly. Work comp continues to tighten.
Regional and monoline carriers continue to remain aggressive with scheduled credits. Texas, of the states listed, seems to have the most rate pressure and the most exposure unit growth.
In the Northeast United States, property inland is typically up 2% to 6%. Coastal is up 10-plus percent and the deductibles are being forced higher.
Casualty and GL and auto are flat to up 5%. Work comp is flat to up 7%.
Exposure units, depending on the class of business, but is flat to up, no more than 5% typically. New business is still very competitive and seems to be actually a little softer in the northeast than Q1.
There's still 10% to 15% pricing difference between new and renewal accounts. Construction GL and umbrellas in New York City continue to be tough.
Monoline work comp in the city is very tough to place. We are seeing some New York City developers, though, that are becoming more active.
And so we're going to see that roll through into the construction payrolls in the near future in the city. In the Midwest, property is typically up 5% to 10%.
GL rates are down 5% to 10%. Now, property carriers or carriers that are writing that property are looking closely at the valuations as well, so limits are going up, and the rates are going up.
So, if rates are going 5% to 10%, and then the limits are going up, they're getting a pretty healthy -- they can be getting a pretty healthy increase in premium dollars. Automobile is flat; work comps, up 2% to 3%; payrolls and sales are up about 5% to 8%.
Midwest, regional and super-regionals continue to be the most aggressive. In the West, property, general liability and automobile are flat to up 5%; work comp rates are up 5% to 10%; exposure units are flat to up 5% on a very broad basis.
And work comp in California and Arizona, they've continued to tighten. We're starting to see some signs of life in the construction industry in Arizona, some of the exposures on some of our contractors are up 5% to 15%.
Regionals continue to be very aggressive in that part of the country as well. In the Northwest, Oregon and Washington, carriers continue to cut back on earthquake limits and increasing their price for that earthquake coverage.
As a general statement in the Pacific Northwest, I think people are feeling better about the economy, but we're not seeing much new hiring. So people are doing more with the same amount of employees.
On employee benefit side, on a small group basis, we're seeing rates probably up 8% to 12% and large group could be up 10-plus percent, depending on the experience. We're not seeing a lot of new bellybuttons added; once again, kind of flat number of employees.
From a wholesale standpoint, we're up 10.8% versus up 8.8% in Q1. Binding authority, we're seeing slight exposure increases.
Rates are up -- are flat to up 5%. Coastal rates are up, and inland is flat to potentially down.
Liquor liability continues to harden and thus, bars and nightclubs continue to be under pressure, meaning going up. Habitational GL rates are also going up as well.
On a brokerage standpoint, on property, coastal property, it's typically flat to up 5%. We are seeing some large accounts that are seeing rate decreases now for the first time.
And then New Jersey and Long Island continues to present challenges for poor construction. As it relates to Citizens, we always get a couple of questions about that, if -- in Florida, if the building is older or not A-rated, meaning under $10 million of value, Citizens keeps it.
If it's larger and A-rated, meaning over $10 million in value, the E&S market has a chance because it's now -- it's not total parity, but it's close. From a liability standpoint, rates are flat to up 5%.
In the brokerage liquor market, liquor liability continues to harden as in the binding market, habitational rates are also going up. Professional Liability, private company D&O's up 5% to 10%, it's all driven by employment practices claims.
Stand-alone employment practices coverage, these higher claims are leading to increasing retentions and at least a 10% increase. Non-real estate accounts are flat, real estate related is up 5% to 10%.
Public company D&O is up 5% to 10% on the primary. On the excess layers, they're down 5% to 10% or even more percent.
National Programs are up 18.3% versus 12.3%. Had a great quarter for Programs; we had some nice growth in a number of our programs.
The big winners were in ARROWHEAD, so I want to say, way to go to Chris Walker and his team. We are hearing in the National Programs area about some downward pressure on reinsurance rates, but we're not seeing the primary carriers pass those decreases through yet.
We hear it on the retail, on the brokerage side as well but, like I said, we haven't seen it yet pass -- be passed through to the primary carriers. On the Services side, we had 10% organic growth versus 62.8%.
Obviously, in the first quarter, we had a big quarter with Colonial. I'll tell you in Q2, Colonial Claims did $2.4 million more in the second quarter than they did last year in the second quarter.
So there was some things that rolled over from Sandy into Q2 that we did not anticipate, but that's -- those are pretty much closed now, but it was a good for order for Services. On an acquisition front, we're really pleased that the Beecher Carlson transaction is closed.
Very excited to have the 400 teammates from Beecher Carlson join Brown & Brown. All of their teammates and leaders are right in the thick of it, servicing their clients.
And we're writing a lot of new business. So we're excited about that.
We continue to actively look for acquisition opportunities. And as you saw, we also closed another very fine acquisition in New York State 61, just outside New York City, Rollins.
So, in conclusion, all carriers want rate, but the competitive pressures are moderating those rates more today than in Q1. Regionals continue to be very aggressive.
The acquisition pipeline continues to be good, as I like to say. Last year, it was good, and a year from now, I think it'll be good.
And so we continue to talk to lots of people. And when they sell and if they sell is up to them.
But we look forward to talking to them. We continue to exist -- deliver for our existing clients and aggressively seek new business.
So, with that said, I'd like to turn it back over to Kyle, and we'll start with our questions. Kyle?
Operator
[Operator Instructions] We'll take our first question from Michael Nannizzi from Goldman Sachs.
Michael Nannizzi - Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Research Division
Just a quick question on the Wholesale Brokerage segment; can you talk a little bit about organic growth there? I think last quarter, you had mentioned some rate increases in moss-affected areas that helped contribute to the organic growth.
Was that relevant again this quarter or was there something else in there?
J. Powell Brown
No, I'd say, Michael, the way I would focus on the wholesale arena is, as you know, you can have sometimes a little bit more violent swings in rates, up or down. But I would tell you that at this point in the cycle, it's more of a function of, one, there are accounts that sometimes are in the standard market and sometimes they're in the E&S market.
I would tell you that -- we call those tweeners. Those tweener accounts are starting to move back towards -- away from standard market into E&S carriers and the wholesale markets.
They typically look like a wholesale account, I would acknowledge that upfront. Number two, we're just aggressively out looking for and soliciting and getting a lot of new business.
So you have -- the fact that you have a lot of new business, you have accounts that are moving across somewhat from standard markets that are typically E&S markets moving back to the E&S market, and we are getting a little help with the rate. But I would say that it's more just a function of that market expanding slightly and our ability to get more new business.
Tony Strianese and his team's done a great job, they've done a really good job, a number of quarters. So we're really pleased with that 10.8%.
Michael Nannizzi - Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Research Division
Great. And then in the National Programs business, just let me get a little bit more color.
So you saw margins expand and, even with the contributions, it sounds like ARROWHEAD and ESIC contributed nicely to premiums. Can you talk about just the margins there and if you were to kind of peel those 2 out, what were the kind of legacy margins in that segment?
And then maybe just give us a little more color on ARROWHEAD and ESIC in particular.
Cory T. Walker
Okay. So in the programs market, we've been able to enjoy 35-plus percent margins historically.
And if you remember, when we acquired ARROWHEAD, they had a $40 million of EBITDA on $107 million of revenue. They've obviously grown a lot organically, which we're very pleased about, Chris Walker and his team.
And the automobile aftermarket program that came in effective October 1 of last year, we said it was going to be $20 million to $25 million of revenue in the first year, and it was going to be about a 10% margin for the first 2 years and we have -- and then, it will move towards our historic margins. As it relates to the Everest program that we picked up on 5/1, we've said that that $7 million of revenue and haven't yet given any color around the margins but, ultimately, we would expect that to be in the traditional operating range of the rest of our programs.
Cory T. Walker
Now, one other item, just to clarify, on the National Programs, we did get -- we did receive $5.7 million of profit-sharing contingencies. And so that's obviously high margins.
When you extract that, that probably added about $4.7 million to the EBITDA. So because of the automobile aftermarket that Powell was talking about, and that's considered net new business since it's -- it was like selling a brand new account, those margins are lower than what, historically, ARROWHEAD or the National Programs had.
So when you extract the EBITDA impact of the profit-sharing contingencies, the margins on the rest of the business did actually shrink a little bit, primarily because of this lower margin business on the aftermarket, but we believe it will continue to grow over time to the segments on average.
J. Powell Brown
Yes, key point, Michael, 2 years, so October 1 of '12 it started. So 2 years from then, we think that business will start going up.
But we're going to have some expansion just by growing the business organically. So we think there's 2 embedded positives.
Operator
We'll take our next question from Mark Hughes from SunTrust.
Mark D. Hughes - SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc., Research Division
On the expense front, Cory, the E&O reserve and then the software licensing increase, are those going to persist in Q3 or thereafter?
Cory T. Walker
No. I think the -- well, first of all, on the E&O reserve, that's an item that can fluctuate each quarter and it depends on how the whole legal environment works in the cases that we have outstanding.
So, looking at that as the net increase is really kind of not the right way to look at it. It's really -- it came about just because of an unusual quarter last year in 2012, where we had an $800,000 credit balance, okay.
So, clearly, that's -- it's not -- what we saw this quarter is probably on average, it's only up because of that credit. From a standpoint of software licensing, that is a combination of some of the roll-in in acquisitions that we -- the fold-ins that we had and some increase in some of the software costs, so I don't think that would continue at that same level each quarter.
But it will be, overall, up a little bit.
Mark D. Hughes - SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc., Research Division
Then the $0.06 a share in the stock comp, how much of that is for Beecher, which I assume you would have incorporated into your guidance when you provided it? And then how much of the legacy plan expenses might be dropping off?
J. Powell Brown
Well, I can answer, Mark, the first one. About $0.013 on the first part of the question with Beecher, and that's meeting certain growth and profitability hurdles, which we feel good about, number one.
And number two, Cory, are you referring to the expenses dropping off on old PSP?
Cory T. Walker
Right.
J. Powell Brown
Yes. Can you answer that?
Cory T. Walker
And that would just be a gradual amount; no big drop-offs in the foreseeable future.
Operator
Our next question comes from Greg Locraft from Morgan Stanley.
Gregory Locraft - Morgan Stanley, Research Division
I wanted to just ask about the margins. Again, you guys are showing tremendous improvement year-over-year in margins.
And I think you've called out, the last couple of quarters including this one, some reasons why. But I guess this is more of an out-year-type question.
Can you continue this trajectory or should we begin to see the year-over-years decelerate? I'm wrestling with whether you can get above historical averages as a corporation on the margin line, given how the mix is shifting.
J. Powell Brown
Yes, Greg, this is Powell. I was going to say, remember, if you've heard some of the last earnings calls, I've said that we and yours truly reserves the right to do whatever we think is necessary to grow the company organically and profitably.
And so do we think we can have the margins go up; yes. If you notice, our goal, our next intermediate goal is $2 billion of revenue.
There is not a margin component with that, and there's not a timeframe upon which we will accomplish that. But what we can say is that the margin's going to be good and we're going to be growing organically.
And so we're very pleased with our organic growth. And as you saw with all of our businesses growing as they did, we had nice margin expansion.
So we think that there's continued opportunity for improvement, but the most important thing is we grow and grow profitably.
Gregory Locraft - Morgan Stanley, Research Division
Okay, yes. And again, I mean, the one-off -- it's not one-off, it's actually the core businesses performing just super well.
So I guess, we'll continue to kind of be conservative. But you guys are in a really good spot on the margin line, so, okay.
The other thing is just the impact of -- you mentioned that the reinsurance market, you're seeing a little softening there, especially it sounds like in the large account side, but it's not passing through. But I think in your commentary, you mentioned it's not passing through yet.
And so I'm just curious in your experience. How does this typically work when your reinsurance comes off, when you begin to feel that in the retail side?
Cory T. Walker
Well, let me clarify, Greg. I've only been doing this for 23 years.
So unlike our Chairman, I don't have 60 years, 50-plus years to draw on, but I would say the following: when reinsurance rates go up or down, typically, they don't pass through right away. And so, if you're talking to a primary carrier, they're going to say, "We're bearing either more of that cost or less of that cost."
And they can't pass it through, i.e. in an increase.
So then, if they can't -- if they get a decrease, they don't want to pass it through as quickly. I would answer the question a little differently.
What I would say is this: I think that the market, the rate market, is moderating already. I think that that will continue as a result of if primary carriers have downward pressure on reinsurance.
I also think that if we do not have a large wind event this fall somewhere in the Gulf Coast, Florida or the Northeast, that the E&S market will flatten and potentially go down in terms of rate, slightly, starting January of next year. That's not a negative for Brown & Brown.
We can still grow when we're doing that. The answer is it creates lots of opportunity for us to do a good job for not only our existing clients most importantly, but for new clients that we don't already have.
So although some people say, "Wow, the rates are going down, so therefore, the rates have to -- reinsurance rates are going down and primary rates have to go down immediately," I believe there's always a lag. I think there are other external factors.
I think that it's a very competitive environment and there's a lot of surplus. So it's not just the reinsurance issue, Greg, that's going to moderate rates further.
Gregory Locraft - Morgan Stanley, Research Division
Okay, perfect. And then, if I can sneak one last one in, just because you're sitting in the markets.
Are you seeing Berkshire Hathaway yet?
J. Powell Brown
Yes.
Gregory Locraft - Morgan Stanley, Research Division
What are your thoughts on their initiative? And anything you can help us as we think through them in the market that you care to share would be great.
J. Powell Brown
Thank you, Greg. Yes, we are seeing -- they started really open for business on 7/1.
They have a talented team of leaders. They have an unencumbered balance sheet.
As I understand it, they don't have to buy reinsurance. So all of those things, in our opinion, will lead to good things over a long period of time.
They're what I would -- we consider them and will consider them a good trading partner, already do. And they're growing, and we look forward to growing with them.
But as it relates to specifics, they have done, I don't know, all the particulars, they've written some good accounts on 71 I understand. But I haven't seen them personally write much yet.
But I think that in the coming months that I will and we will, so we look forward to it.
Operator
Our next question comes from Adam Klauber of William Blair.
Adam Klauber - William Blair & Company L.L.C., Research Division
Were audit premiums more positive in the second quarter versus the fourth or first quarter?
J. Powell Brown
I would say they're probably similar.
Adam Klauber - William Blair & Company L.L.C., Research Division
Okay, okay. Is momentum building or is it still just slightly positive?
J. Powell Brown
I think that it's more -- I think it's more slightly positive. I think as I said in Q1, Adam, I think people generally feel better about the economy.
But I think that people are cautiously optimistic about how they invest in their businesses. So, as I think I've said, the example I used in Q1, something close to this, if we need to buy a new $3 million machine, we may be reticent and may want to do some maintenance on that machine, rather than buy the brand-new machine and make sure that our business continues to grow as we anticipate a little longer before we go out and borrow the money to buy the $3 million machine.
That's really what we're seeing. We're seeing uptick.
If I made a broad statement, I think that you see sales outpacing payroll growth obviously. I can't tell you how much, but that's a broad statement.
Some of the information that I shared this morning showed a similar, a one-for-one increase. Like in the West, the 5% to 8% -- I think the Midwest, 5% to 8% increase is up in sales and payrolls.
I think most of the places around the country, though, there's a little bit of a divergence there. So sales are going to be up more than payrolls.
People are slow to add new headcount. So we are starting to see, though, continued positive on audit premiums, yes.
Adam Klauber - William Blair & Company L.L.C., Research Division
Okay. And then as far as ARROWHEAD, clearly, they've had strong performance.
Which programs are growing? And is Zurich beginning to grow or is it a little too early for that to happen?
J. Powell Brown
Yes. The answer is we've been very pleased with some of our -- well, our earthquake programs and some personal property programs in that area.
As you know, we'd had a change in the auto program from a prior carrier to Everest, so that's coming back online. And I would tell you that the Zurich is a great trading partner and we are working through a couple things that will help us enhance distribution in terms of they're totally committed to it, but I'm talking about ease of getting it gone and so we're working through that.
So we haven't seen the growth yet organically that both groups would want, but we can see how to achieve it and we're working towards that.
Adam Klauber - William Blair & Company L.L.C., Research Division
Okay. And one last question.
Organic in the benefits, was that better or not as good as the overall organic in the retail area?
J. Powell Brown
Organic, yes, we don't break out the difference on benefits and other than benefits. But I would say that the growth in benefits was good.
Operator
Our next question comes from Ryan Byrnes of Janney Capital Markets.
Ryan J. Byrnes - Janney Montgomery Scott LLC, Research Division
Just one quick question on the -- obviously, the Retail organic growth showed solid promise or growth this quarter. Just trying to figure out, were there any kind of one-timers in there?
And then secondly, obviously, it showed nice improvement quarter-over-quarter. Should we expect that further in the back half of the year?
J. Powell Brown
Number one, relative to Retail, we're very pleased with the performance, and Charlie Lydecker and the team has done a great job. And as you remember in Q1, Ryan, we said that Retail operates in a range.
Q4 of last year, we did 5.4% organic in Retail. Q1, we did 80 bps.
Now we've done 2.3%. Our budgets see that Retail can improve over the year, but until we deliver it, we don't believe it.
And so I like to say show me first. And so we're out trying to grow our Retail business which, as you know, is now on a run rate about 57% of our revenue whereas it was 54% last year.
And as the economy continues to grow, the middle-market economy, you're -- we believe that we will see more positive growth in Retail, so we feel good about it.
Ryan J. Byrnes - Janney Montgomery Scott LLC, Research Division
Okay, great. And my last one is can you -- is it possible to break out the revenue coming from the Zurich and Everest programs in the quarter?
J. Powell Brown
No, but we could tell you what it is on an annual basis because some of it is lumpy -- and I shouldn't say lumpy -- but we haven't gone through an entire year. What I would tell you is Zurich is $20 million to $25 million annually and Everest is $7 million annually.
Operator
Our next question comes from Brett Huff from Stephens Inc.
Brett Huff - Stephens Inc., Research Division
Two quick questions. One, the contingents were a little bit higher than we thought, Cory or Powell, I'm not sure who wants to take this.
But what is your sense of how the annual contingent number will look sort of over time? Should we expect sort of the levels that we've seen in 1Q, 2Q?
And then I think, Cory, you articulated what you expect for 3Q and 4Q; is that a level that should be sustained assuming no big changes in losses?
J. Powell Brown
I think there's 2 ways to look at it, Brett. I think that's a fair assumption with a caveat, and the caveat would be certain carriers were asked nicely to change to guaranteed supplemental commissions, and some of those that went to GSCs have now reverted back.
And in the reversion or reverting back, they -- you always want to know exactly how those contracts actually work. And so the way people have contingency or profit-sharing contracts might change.
We don't know something, that's not like -- I'm not trying to lead you to something, but I'm saying if, in fact, carriers change the way they pay those amounts, we would -- we don't anticipate that, but it's an important part of our business and we think about it a lot. And we think it aligns our interests and the insured's interest in our carrier partners.
And we think that we can continue to do a better job in growing that; that's a goal of ours.
Brett Huff - Stephens Inc., Research Division
Okay. And then, were there any onetime costs associated with the acquisition in 2Q numbers; any closing costs or anything like that?
J. Powell Brown
Nothing material.
Brett Huff - Stephens Inc., Research Division
Okay. And then last question from me.
Powell, you talked a little bit about rates in your overview of the different regions. But, in particular, can you just tell us again how Florida units are looking?
I think you said flat to up 5%. Any additional detail there, just given how much of your revenue comes out of Florida?
J. Powell Brown
Yes, sure. Here's the way I would break it out.
If you go to Southwest Florida, that's Naples, the Sarasota, the economy is still slow. Actually, it's just kind of bumping along actually.
If you go to Boca Raton on the East Coast to Miami, it's white hot. Construction, all kinds of things being sold, all kinds -- there's a lot of activity.
If you go to Orlando and you talk to contractor in Orlando, and the contractors in Orlando are generally starting to see good pipelines. Now I qualify that, remember, pre-slowdown, that 18 months of backlog, today, that's 9 months to 12 months.
You talk to a contractor, they feel good about it. But remember, if you had 2 years or 18 months, and it's only 12 months now, we -- they don't feel as good.
They feel better, but they don't feel as good. In the North, from Jacksonville across the Panhandle, I would tell you that generally, business is better.
So the mindset of Floridians is very positive. It actually is always positive.
But we know in Florida that we have a fine state, we have tax-advantaged state relative to personal income tax, and we know then when all, you all, are up there in the wintertime working hard in New York City and far-off places in the North at 4:30 in the afternoon on a Thursday in February, it is going to be cold and dark. And we know that it's going to be sunny and warm and probably 72 in Florida.
So people are going to be coming to Florida in the future. And if anybody on the call wants to buy some real estate or insure something in Florida, we could help you.
Operator
Our next question comes from Meyer Shields of KBW.
Meyer Shields - Keefe, Bruyette, & Woods, Inc., Research Division
I don't know if this is a question for Powell or for Cory, but can you talk about the margin compression in the Services unit? Is that related to the extra claim activity at Colonial?
J. Powell Brown
I'm sorry, could you repeat the very last -- extra of what claim? What was the last part of the question?
Meyer Shields - Keefe, Bruyette, & Woods, Inc., Research Division
Just the activities of [indiscernible]
J. Powell Brown
No. Yes.
No, it wasn't. What we've got is we had -- if you remember, we have -- in Services, we have 2 large work comp TPAs, 2 Medicare set-aside companies, 1 Social Security disability advocacy firm and 1 specialty flood claims business.
So, in Q1, we had, obviously, a really big quarter. And two, this quarter, it's just like anything else, some of the business in some of those -- the revenue in some of those businesses comes in, sometimes, it's not as predictable.
And so there could be expenses incurred in Q2 that there's not an offsetting revenue yet, but that revenue may come in next quarter. And so that's -- there's no magic to it, Meyer.
I don't…
Cory T. Walker
And, Meyer, there's 2 small things. First of all, on the Claims Management, the margins shrunk a little bit because of the revenue of aberration and you can't remove costs as quickly as the revenues moved in that, and that's a little bit of that.
The second thing is on our Social Security disability. They have been staffing up a little bit more and some additional cost, as they are planning to grow in some of the individual marketplace, and so their costs have increased slightly.
So overall, there's only about margin compression of maybe $800,000 in that particular segment for the quarter over the previous year's quarter. So it's those 2 major areas.
Meyer Shields - Keefe, Bruyette, & Woods, Inc., Research Division
Okay. That was very helpful.
From a different perspective, are you seeing any change in loss cost trend or loss cost inflation rates?
J. Powell Brown
It -- the answer is, on a broad statement, no. Are we seeing that in regions; yes.
And carriers are addressing it differently in different regions, but on a broad basis, no.
Operator
Our next question comes from Michael Nannizzi from Goldman Sachs.
Michael Nannizzi - Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Research Division
Just a quick follow-up, if I could. I'm just looking at Retail.
So the last couple of quarters, you've had decent organic growth, but margins actually either outpacing or very close to that level. How should we think about the relationship there?
I mean, is that -- what level of growth in Retail do you think you need in order to continue to generate margin improvement?
J. Powell Brown
Well, Michael, what we've said basically is we can expand our margin when we have organic growth. Now, having said that, last year, as you remember, we had a onetime sales incentive that was an income event.
That income event, as you know, was an additional 5% paid to retail producers who grew their book of 5% or more over the prior year. And so we had a potential expense of up to $12.8 million.
And personally, Cory and I both wanted to pay the $12.8 million. We ended up paying out $6.8 million.
53% of our producers participated in that payout and we were very pleased with the results. And we have said that if we knew what we knew now then, we would have done it exactly the same way.
Having said that, we do not have that $5-point-million expense in there and as we've said earlier, that -- and I like to say that I reserve the right to do what we think is necessary to grow the business in any way we see fit organically and profitably. Thus, we have input or installed a new wealth creation mechanism, that's the new SIP grants.
And so, once again, that's a performance over a multiyear period that producers and others can participate in, which creates wealth as opposed to income. And so the answer is I know there are other firms that say, "Well, when we grow x, we have y expansion."
And we are not really saying you've got to get this point. The way I want you to think of it, Michael, is barring unusual expenses, we can have margin expansion when we grow our business organically.
The more rapidly we grow our business organically, the better chance we have to rapidly expand our margins.
Michael Nannizzi - Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Research Division
Great. And then just one last one, I guess.
On the grants, you mentioned the July 1 grants. Have you talked about the sort of metrics or the hurdles that either the company or the Beecher unit needs to achieve in order for those incentives to pay out?
Have you discussed that?
J. Powell Brown
Yes. Look, well, the answer is we haven't gone into the specifics as it relates to the Beecher.
But suffice it to say that they have to grow dramatically on the top and bottom line to get that, hit those payouts, which we fully think they're capable of doing and hope that they will, number one. Number two, as it relates to the traditional SIP grants, remember, they're a 5-year measurement period which, whether you're a producer, you are a leader of a business unit or an office or a group of offices or you're a senior leader, everybody has a component of that: 50% for producers and leaders; 100% for the senior leadership, where it's on earnings per share growth, that's 5% -- I mean, sorry, 7.5% compounded annually over a 5-year period.
As it relates to the producers and the leaders in offices and multiple offices, they have 50% of their grant based on either personal production, as in a producer, or as a leader on growing the business organically and -- meaning the organic growth and operating profit growth. So that's typically the way the measurement periods work on SIP grants, the -- and also on the Beecher grants.
Operator
We'll take our next question from Elyse Greenspan from Wells Fargo.
Elyse Greenspan - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division
I just had a couple of quick questions. So, just in terms of the organic growth, aside from the Colonial Claims businesses quarter, was there any kind of onetime items that you would point to that we shouldn't expect to continue?
J. Powell Brown
No. No, Elyse.
Elyse Greenspan - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division
Okay. And then just within Retail, it seems that some of the questions that you're kind of are looking for that to continue to improve throughout this year.
I know last quarter, you had pointed to seeing the full year organic growth for '13 about and to exceed last year's growth number. Would you still say that that's the case as well?
J. Powell Brown
Yes.
Elyse Greenspan - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division
Okay. And then just on the Programs front, in terms of we've seen, obviously, some growth on the Everest and Zurich programs coming online.
Are you guys looking at potential additional programs from here that you can potentially speak to similar in nature that we might see in the near term?
J. Powell Brown
Well, Elyse, the short answer is I wish that we did. And I know that we've been asked before is this a trend and I'd like to say that it would someday become a trend.
But at the present time, I would want you and everyone else to think of the 2 businesses that we have picked up in automobile aftermarket and the Everest as onetime events. And so, if we're fortunate enough to pick up others, then I still think that's a bonus.
But the short answer to your question is no, there's nothing pending. Would we like something to be in the pipe?
Sure. But these are very unusual.
That doesn't mean that we're not talking to people and we'll always talk to people, but that's not different than any other time in our evolution. But I would think of those 2 as isolated onetime events.
We need to grow our business in programs organically, just like we're doing in the other parts of our business, which we are, and we're excited about it. And we think that there's some neat opportunities going forward.
Operator
We'll take our next question from Josh Shanker from Deutsche Bank.
Joshua D. Shanker - Deutsche Bank AG, Research Division
So I have 2 questions. Well, this is really the same question, but where are we in terms of total commission volume generated by the State of Florida compared to where we were in 2007?
And then what does that mean? It's hard to figure out with the M&A and everything, but what does that mean for the total commission pool outside of Florida?
J. Powell Brown
Okay. Let me -- I don't have the 2007 number right here in front of me, but I'm going to be pretty close.
And I'm going to look at Cory. I would tell you that $333 million of revenue last year out of the $1.2 billion were in Florida.
Of that number, about $168 million was Retail. That means that the others were in Programs, Services and Wholesale.
That Retail business, not all of that is domiciled accounts in Florida. They could be produced -- they could be accounts in Seattle, Washington, handled by offices in Florida.
Although that doesn't happen that often, it's very possible, number one. So the Services business is not nearly as contingent upon the economic swings in commission levels.
The Wholesale business is. You've got exposures and going back and forth, accounts from both sides of standard markets to wholesale and wholesale to standard markets.
And then in Programs, a lot of that business is all around the country. So I think the biggest probably indicator would be what our total revenue in Retail was in 2007.
And so, if I had to guess, and this is a guess, I would want to check this, pretty good guess, but $147 million. If I had to guess, it's somewhere between $147 million…
Joshua D. Shanker - Deutsche Bank AG, Research Division
Again, what was the 2012 number you said?
J. Powell Brown
$168 million.
Joshua D. Shanker - Deutsche Bank AG, Research Division
Okay. And so still, we're still -- I guess, I think in aggregate, if I had trends for about M&A, I think we're slightly behind in total commissions generated from where we would be, I guess, in 2007.
Where do you think that sort of the missing gap is in terms of growth? And how long do you think it would take you to sort of fill in those gaps?
J. Powell Brown
Okay. So I know you know, Josh, that we had $188 million evaporate between 2007 and 2011.
So that's -- as we know, that's bigger than a lot of firms out there, most firms. And so in places like Florida, if this is a Florida-specific question, I would point to -- the first area I'd point to is every office that writes construction business.
And one of the reasons we try to give that nuance around construction is we kind of believe Florida is a little bit of a service-based economy and it's a little bit of the field of dreams, a little bit. It's you will build it and they will come.
As the economy slowed down, they stopped building and, therefore, people stopped coming. They stopped coming and then, therefore, they stopped building.
Now we're starting to see that uptick in building. And so you can have accounts that were x before in 2007 that went down to 0.3 of x, so 30% of what they were.
And now they could be 55% of x. So are they incrementally better?
Sure, we think that they're healthier. But it's going to take potentially some time for them to get back, if they get back to that number.
And some of those people went out of business. So do we think about are we behind?
I think that's a matter of opinion. Are we happy that the business went down $188 million?
No. Did that impact other businesses?
Yes. Do we think that we're positioned well to grow with our clients as they grow in their middle-market endeavors and upper-middle market?
Yes. Are we writing a lot of new business?
Yes. Are our margins expanding?
Yes. So we feel like a lot of those indicators, Josh, are all pointing towards good things, as opposed to thinking, "Well, we're behind."
Well, by the way, on a combined basis, if you took last year's revenue with Beecher, we'd be at $1.3 billion and if you put $188 million on top, we'd be just under $1.5 billion. That's a wishful concept, but we believe that we're going to continue to grow organically with our existing clients and meet their needs and write a lot of new business, which translates into good organic growth.
Joshua D. Shanker - Deutsche Bank AG, Research Division
Is your market share today higher than it was in 2007 for the State of Florida?
J. Powell Brown
I would say the answer -- I don't know the answer to that. I would say incrementally, yes.
We don't think about market share. We think about revenue dollars, because we can only invest revenue dollars back into our business by hiring and retaining and rewarding top people, quality people across the entire platform and investing in new agencies.
Operator
[Operator Instructions] We have no further questions in the queue. I would now like to turn it back over to Mr.
Powell Brown for any closing or final remarks.
J. Powell Brown
Thank you, Kyle. We'd like to thank everybody today.
We were very proud of our performance in Q2, and we look forward to talking to you after our Q3 performance. Hope you have a great day.
Bye-bye.
Operator
And this does conclude today's conference call. Thank you, all, for your participation.