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Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage Salary and Pay

How much do Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage make?

In May 2024 the middle Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage worker earned $76,650 a year, the average was $77,050, and the survey counted 7,790 jobs. The 25th percentile is $64,280 and the 75th is $86,430.

The complete pay picture for Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage: 7,790 jobs nationally, a median of $76,650, and the state and metro tables that show where that median is beaten and where it is not.

Updated November 5, 2026

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The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Pay level	Annual wage	Hourly wage
10th percentile	$56,690	$27.26
25th percentile	$64,280	$30.90
Median (50th)	$76,650	$36.85
75th percentile	$86,430	$41.55
90th percentile	$101,800	$48.94

The five rows are five different workers in the same occupation, from the 10th percentile ($56,690) to the 90th ($101,800). BLS suppresses cells that fail its reliability rules (n/p here) and caps the highest wages at $239,200+ a year or $115.00+ an hour; in this ladder that top code appears at the very top rows only.

Employment and concentration

The occupation employed 7,790 people in May 2024, 0.01% of every job BLS counted. Texas is the largest employer at 710 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 23.6% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Colorado, whose location quotient of 4.06 says this work is 4.06 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $45,110 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($101,800) is 1.8 times the 10th percentile ($56,690), a gap of $45,110 a year. The mean of $77,050 sitting above the median of $76,650 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

Ohio posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $100,920, and Texas the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:

State	Employment	Jobs per 1,000	Location quotient	Mean annual	Median annual
Texas	710	0.1	1.01	$68,640	$64,730
Colorado	590	0.2	4.06	$75,290	$69,560
North Carolina	540	0.1	2.17	$73,850	$67,490
California	510	0.0	0.56	$81,890	$78,870
Florida	460	0.0	0.92	$64,400	$65,900
New York	380	0.0	0.79	$83,960	$79,050
South Carolina	380	0.2	3.35	$86,930	$91,960
Massachusetts	340	0.1	1.83	$76,640	$73,100
Georgia	320	0.1	1.31	$79,780	$77,950
New Jersey	300	0.1	1.37	$87,440	$87,240
Pennsylvania	220	0.0	0.74	$87,200	$83,480
Maryland	180	0.1	1.32	$92,850	$88,700
Michigan	140	0.0	0.62	$71,610	$73,370
Ohio	120	0.0	0.44	$96,560	$100,920
Washington	120	0.0	0.69	$91,730	$97,550
Missouri	110	0.0	0.72	$72,180	$74,180
Arizona	100	0.0	0.63	$80,980	$72,830
Oklahoma	100	0.1	1.15	$75,780	$77,620
Utah	80	0.0	0.97	$73,590	$66,080
Maine	70	0.1	2.21	$79,550	$78,730
Indiana	60	0.0	0.36	$78,190	$75,720
Kentucky	60	0.0	0.60	$77,150	$78,640
Nevada	60	0.0	0.78	$76,650	$79,270
Iowa	50	0.0	0.63	$76,110	$78,120
Rhode Island	30	0.1	1.39	$80,960	$79,270
Connecticut	n/p	n/p	n/p	$90,390	$77,740
Illinois	n/p	n/p	n/p	$61,740	$59,990
Louisiana	n/p	n/p	n/p	$73,090	$69,170
Mississippi	n/p	n/p	n/p	$68,200	$61,440
Oregon	n/p	n/p	n/p	$81,420	$80,250
Tennessee	n/p	n/p	n/p	$76,770	$73,390
Vermont	n/p	n/p	n/p	$70,880	$66,050
Virginia	n/p	n/p	n/p	$87,150	$82,570
Wisconsin	n/p	n/p	n/p	$69,440	$71,780

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage stands number 716 by employment and number 244 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Business and Financial Operations Occupations, the group median wage is $78,420 across 32 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 2% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.1% of the group's 10,351,430 jobs. In 18 of the 34 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $76,650, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX is the largest metro employer with 350 jobs, 4.5% of the national total. The first table ranks metros by employment; the second ranks them by mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs in the occupation, because a three-person metro can top a pay table by accident.

Largest metro employers

Metropolitan area	Employment	Mean annual	Median annual
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX	350	$75,810	$70,790
Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	350	$76,810	$73,740
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	290	$91,830	$90,540
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	230	$81,450	$77,950
Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC	220	$77,510	$70,270
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	180	$85,500	$82,120
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	150	$74,880	$76,850
San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR	150	$37,590	$38,360
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL	140	$71,460	$68,440
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL	120	$56,540	$60,910

What the median pay looks like as a budget

As a household number, $76,650 a year is $6,388 a month gross, $2,948 every two weeks, $1,474 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($64,280) to the 75th ($86,430) is worth $22,150 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. The next step from a gross figure is a net one: run the $6,388 monthly figure through the paycheck calculator applies your state's taxes, the salary calculator compares two offers in any unit, and the raise vs inflation calculator tells you whether a nominal raise is a real one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $84,315 would sit between the median ($76,650) and the 75th percentile ($86,430), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $64,280, is $12,370 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

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Sources and data: SOC 13-1032 in the federal wage survey: national ladder from file oesm24nat, state table from oesm24st, metro tables from oesm24ma, all in the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS May 2024 release of April 2, 2025, downloaded November 5, 2026 from bls.gov. Figures are survey estimates for wage and salary employment, not job-posting data. See also our data methodology. Figures are estimates for planning, not financial advice.

Frequently asked questions

What is the median salary for Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage?

$76,650 a year ($36.85), the middle wage among 7,790 counted workers in the BLS May 2024 estimates. The 75th percentile is $86,430 and the 90th is $101,800.

Where are Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage jobs concentrated?

By headcount, Texas leads with 710 jobs; by concentration, Colorado leads with a location quotient of 4.06, meaning the occupation is 4.06 times as dense there as nationally.

What do the top 10% of Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage earn?

$101,800 a year or more. The gap between the 90th percentile and the median ($76,650) is the size of the senior and specialist premium in this occupation.

How does EveryCalc get Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage pay data?

From the Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS bulk files for May 2024 (national, state, and metropolitan), downloaded November 5, 2026. Nothing on this page is self-reported by workers or scraped from job postings.