Trying to decide whether it's a good time to start an online home inspector training program? Here is some current data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS):
- Employment of construction and building inspectors is expected to grow 17 percent over the 2008-2018 decade, faster than the average for all occupations.
- Inspectors should experience faster than average employment growth.
- The routine practice of obtaining home inspections is a relatively recent development, causing employment of home inspectors to increase rapidly.
- Construction and building inspectors held about 106,400 jobs in 2008.
-Local governments—primarily municipal or county building departments—employed 44 percent.
- Employment of local government inspectors is concentrated in cities and in suburban areas undergoing rapid growth.
- Another 27 percent of construction and building inspectors worked for architectural and engineering services firms, conducting inspections for a fee or on a contract basis. Many of these were home inspectors working on behalf of potential real estate purchasers.
- About 8 percent of construction and building inspectors were self-employed; many these were home inspectors.
- Median annual wages of wage and salary construction and building inspectors were $50,180 in May 2008. The middle 50 percent earned between $39,070 and $63,360. The highest 10 percent earned more than $78,070.
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Based on the wage chart presented by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the medial annual home inspector salary is around $50,000. home inspection technician salary
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