Occupation / job
Property Appraisers and Assessors
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
At $67,960 against a $50,020 midpoint, Property Appraisers and Assessors pays $17,940 a year more than the typical American job — $8.62 an hour. Nothing pays that much more for free, and the thing it is paid for is what you should be reading about.
57,070 people are employed as Property Appraisers and Assessors. At that scale every large metro has a real market, and the difference between a good year and a bad one is usually which employer you are at rather than whether anyone is hiring.
Financial specialist work suits people who are precise about other people’s money and unbothered that the calendar, not the workload, decides when the pressure arrives.
We carry no verified training length for Property Appraisers and Assessors — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
The quarters sit at $50,970 and $92,760 — 1.8x, or $3,482 a month apart. At that width the occupation contains genuinely different jobs, and which one you are being offered matters more than the title does.
Even the 25th percentile pays $50,970, $950 more than the $50,020 typical American job and $24.50 an hour. The floor, not the median, is the strongest financial argument for Property Appraisers and Assessors.
Avoid it if you would find it hard to deliver an unwelcome finding to the person who commissioned the work.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 57,070 is a headcount of the employed, which is a numerator without a denominator — everyone who qualified and never got hired is missing from it, and we will not estimate them to complete a percentage.
What the spread tells you
At 1.8x, the distribution for Property Appraisers and Assessors is open enough that specialisation starts to pay. The distance from $50,970 to $92,760 is mostly what you can do that others in the same title cannot.
In cash terms the middle half of Property Appraisers and Assessors runs $50,970 to $92,760 — $41,790 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $67,960.
Getting to $92,760, the 75th percentile, is worth $24,800 a year more than the $67,960 midpoint and $41,790 more than the $50,970 a quarter of Property Appraisers and Assessors settle for.
$24,800 separates $67,960 from the $92,760 top quarter, while only $16,990 separates it from $50,970. The range leans upward, which means the middle of Property Appraisers and Assessors has more room above it than a symmetric reading of the median would suggest.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Property Appraisers and Assessors is $32.67 an hour. The quarters sit at $24.50 and $44.59, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
What these figures are, and what they are not
This is payroll data: it comes from employers, about people they employ. Anyone doing the work of Property Appraisers and Assessors for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $67,960 describes them.
The hourly number on this page is $67,960 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Property Appraisers and Assessors, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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