Trevor Baldwin, 34

As the COVID-19 pandemic began raging across America earlier this year, publicly traded insurance companies and brokerages followed the path of many U.S. businesses by cutting employee pay and freezing new hiring to brace themselves for an economic decline.

Not Baldwin Risk Partners.

Instead, the Tampa-based insurance brokerage and distribution company that trades as BRP Group Inc. added positions and promoted internal staffers. Employee pay and benefits — along with bonuses — remained in place.