Property Appraisers and Assessors Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Read the ladder vertically: each row is the wage of the Property Appraisers and Assessors worker at that point in the distribution, so $90,810 at the 75th percentile means three quarters of the occupation earns less. Figures BLS cannot publish appear as n/p, and its top code prints as $239,200+.

Employment and concentration

BLS counted 59,070 Property Appraisers and Assessors jobs in May 2024, which is 0.04% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in South Dakota, where the location quotient is 2.59, meaning the occupation holds 2.59 times its national share of local jobs. California employs the most people outright, 5,660 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 25.9% of the national total.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $49,310 at the 25th percentile, $65,420 at the middle, $90,810 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $84,280, a ratio of 3.2 to 1. Where a specific job offer lands on that range says more about the role's level than the occupation's headline median does.

Pay by state

Every state with a publishable estimate is in this table, 51 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is District of Columbia at $105,000; the jobs leader is California:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Property Appraisers and Assessors stands number 362 by employment and number 326 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 17% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.6% of the group's 10,351,430 jobs. In 21 of the 50 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $65,420, 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

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 2,270 jobs, 3.8% of the national total. Below, the biggest employers come first; the pay table after it only counts metros with 500 or more jobs in the occupation, so its leader is a real market and not a statistical artifact.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $60,780 a year, against $115,790 in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Anyone relocating for this work should price the destination metro's table row, not the national median, before signing anything.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

As a household number, $65,420 a year is $5,452 a month gross, $2,516 every two weeks, $1,258 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($49,310) to the 75th ($90,810) is worth $41,500 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 $5,452 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 $71,962 would sit between the median ($65,420) and the 75th percentile ($90,810), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $49,310, is $16,110 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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