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Job Description
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.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 13-1032.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 65,930.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 31.00
- Currently, there are 15,130 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage”.
Also Known As…
- Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage
- Physical Damage Appraiser
- Outside Physical Damage Appraiser
- Material Damage Appraiser
- Insurance Appraiser
- Field Inspector
- Field Appraiser
- Damage Appraiser
- Automobile Damage Appraiser (Auto Damage Appraiser)
- Automobile Appraiser (Auto Appraiser)
- Appraiser
- Reinspector
- Property Field Inspector
- Field Property Loss Specialist
- Field Automobile Adjuster (Field Auto Adjuster)
- Automobile Damage Field Appraiser (Auto Damage Field Appraiser)
- Auto Damage Insurance Appraiser
- Auto Body Repair Estimator
Tasks for “Commercial Field Inspector”
- Prepare insurance forms to indicate repair cost estimates and recommendations.
- Review repair cost estimates with automobile repair shop to secure agreement on cost of repairs.
- Estimate parts and labor to repair damage, using standard automotive labor and parts cost manuals and knowledge of automotive repair.
- Arrange to have damage appraised by another appraiser to resolve disagreement with shop on repair cost.
- Determine salvage value on total-loss vehicle.
- Examine damaged vehicle to determine extent of structural, body, mechanical, electrical, or interior damage.
- Evaluate practicality of repair as opposed to payment of market value of vehicle before accident.
Related Technology & Tools
- Tire tread depth gauges
- Measure markers
- Computer laser printers
- Desktop computers
- Electronic digital theodolites
- Laptop computers
- Compact digital cameras
- Laser facsimile machines"
- Measuring tapes
- Hand calculators
- Tablet computers
- Adobe Systems Adobe Acrobat
- A-T Solutions Easy Street Draw
- Web browser software
- Email software
- Microsoft Word
- Vertafore ImageRight
- Mitchell International Mitchell WorkCenter
- NCH Software Express Invoice
- Solera Audatex Estimating
- Microsoft Outlook
- Meridian Technologies SurePoint
- App Software Associations AppTrak.net
- Microsoft Excel
- Swan River Software Estimiser Pro
- Information Services Inc. CCC Pathways Appraisal Solution
- Cost estimating software
- Web-Est