DETAILED OCCUPATION DATA

Appraise automobile or other vehicle damage to determine repair costs for insurance claim settlement. Prepare insurance forms to indicate repair cost or cost estimates and recommendations. May seek agreement with automotive repair shop on repair costs.

Occupational Employment Statistics(OES) Wage Data
Wages Updated to First Quarter, 2020

					Percentiles
Geography	Employment	Emp SE*	Mean	Mean SE*	10th	25th	Median	75th	90th
Minnesota	N/A	N/A	N/A	$1.12/hr	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
U S	13,750	756	$32.15/hr	$0.29/hr	$21.56/hr	$25.93/hr	$30.71/hr	$37.76/hr	$45.48/hr
*SE = Standard error, a measure of the statistical reliability of the estimate.

Related Occupations

Occupation (click title for details)	OES		Projections
	Employment	Median Wage	% Change 2023 - 2025
Customer Service Representatives	60,340	$19.02/hr	-0.6%
Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks	6,790	$22.52/hr	-0.5%
Claims Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators	5,930	$31.46/hr	-0.9%
Insurance Underwriters	1,750	$35.09/hr	-0.9%
Tax Preparers	1,350	$26.02/hr	2.2%
Compliance Officers, Except Agriculture, Construction, Health and Safety, and Transportation	N/A	$36.41/hr	1.7%

• Estimates parts and labor to repair damage, using standard automotive labor and parts-cost manuals and knowledge of automotive repair.
• Prepares insurance forms to indicate repair-cost estimates and recommendations.
• Evaluates practicality of repair as opposed to payment of market value of vehicle before accident.
• Arranges to have damage appraised by another appraiser to resolve disagreement with shop on repair cost.
• Determines salvage value on total-loss vehicle.
• Reviews repair-cost estimates with automobile-repair shop to secure agreement on cost of repairs.
• Examines damaged vehicle to determine extent of structural, body, mechanical, electrical, or interior damage.