Offices of real estate appraisers

$47,795 in median gross receipts — $3,982 a month — is a strong figure for this dataset. Revenue at that level survives a normal cost base, which is not true of most codes on this site.

30,192 filings sit behind this code — a workforce the size of a mid-sized occupation that no payroll survey counts, because none of it runs through a payroll.

23.2% of filers grossed $100,000 or more. At that share the upper band is not an exception, it is a large minority of the field — though gross receipts at this level usually carry proportionate costs.

Independent real estate work suits people with enough runway to survive a transaction cycle, since income arrives in irregular lumps rather than monthly.

There is no training requirement to file under this code — which is precisely why so many people appear in the bottom bands. Entry being free is not the same as the work being viable.

The top quarter of Offices of real estate appraisers earns 5.1x the bottom quarter — under $18,987 against over $96,418, a spread of $77,431. Distributions this stretched are usually two different jobs sharing one label, and any average across them means little.

The bottom quarter of Offices of real estate appraisers earns under $18,987 — $31,033 below the $50,020 a typical American job pays. Entering at the bottom and waiting is a live risk here, not a theoretical one, and some people never leave that quarter.

Do not start this without a full year of expenses banked; the ramp is longer than almost everyone expects.

15.1% of the 30,192 filers in 2022 — 4,565 people — took under $10,000 in receipts for the year. Low for this dataset, and still a fifth of everyone who tried it earning almost nothing before costs.

Read that as a floor, not an estimate. Census publishes gross receipts, not net income, so everyone inside that share earned less than $10,000 suggests once costs came out — and filers who grossed well above $10,000 may still have netted nothing.

At 5.1x, the gap between $18,987 and $96,418 is the shape of a field with a small, well-paid top. $47,795 is real and it is not a forecast — the people quoting the upper end at you are describing a minority.

The middle half of this field earns between $18,987 and $96,418. That is $77,431 of range, with $47,795 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.

Between $18,987 and $96,418 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $47,795. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $48,623; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $77,431.

It is $28,808 from $47,795 down to $18,987 but $48,623 up to $96,418. When a range leans this far upward, the interesting question is what puts someone in the top half, because the money is disproportionately there.

Converted to a 2,080-hour year, the receipts run $9.12 an hour at the 25th percentile, $22.97 at the midpoint and $46.35 at the 75th. Read them as revenue per hour worked; the equivalent wage is lower by whatever this work costs to do.

Counted straight off the return: 2,281 filers grossed under $5,000, 2,284 took $5,000 to $9,999, 4,979 took $10,000 to $24,999, 7,007 cleared $100,000 and 1,174 cleared $250,000.