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Property Appraisers & Assessors

SOC 13-2020

Put a defensible value on property for sales, lending, and tax.

The job
Median pay
$68k
$51k to $93k typical range
Outlook, 2025 to 2035
Growing
+3.5% projected
Openings a year
5k
BLS projection
Typical education
Bachelor's
Our model
AI displacement risk
Moderate
How much of this job AI may do instead of the person
Works with AI
10/100
AI alongside the person rather than instead of them
AI exposure
53rd pct
More exposed than 53% of occupations · modeled estimate · 75th pct in Microsoft's data
Future-proof
49/100

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Pay and jobs by state

BLS OEWS May 2025, 51 states. Sorted by jobs; per 1,000 is jobs per thousand workers in the state; vs national compares that rate with the country's. A tilde marks a figure estimated from the parent occupation group where BLS publishes none.

StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
California6,3800.40.9×$89k
Texas5,2400.41.0×$66k
New York2,8600.30.8×$78k
Florida2,8300.30.8×$66k
Georgia2,4900.51.4×$62k
North Carolina2,2100.41.2×$67k
Michigan1,9600.41.2×$64k
Indiana1,9400.61.6×$60k
Illinois1,7000.30.8×$60k
Arizona1,6700.51.4×$51k
All 51 states
StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
Missouri1,5600.51.4×$57k
Virginia1,5400.41.0×$76k
Pennsylvania1,4300.20.6×$58k
Minnesota1,3800.51.3×$83k
Ohio1,2200.20.6×$63k
New Jersey1,1900.30.8×$92k
Washington1,1500.30.9×$84k
Massachusetts1,1000.30.8×$92k
Colorado1,0600.41.0×$75k
Tennessee1,0600.30.9×$62k
South Carolina1,0000.41.2×$59k
Oklahoma9200.51.5×$50k
Wisconsin8200.30.8×$69k
Arkansas8100.61.7×$51k
Oregon8100.41.1×$54k
Kansas7800.51.5×$51k
Utah7600.41.2×$56k
Maryland6600.20.7×$78k
Connecticut6300.41.0×$86k
Iowa6300.41.1×$80k
Alabama6000.30.8×$61k
Louisiana6000.30.8×$63k
Nevada6000.41.1×$58k
New Mexico5300.61.7×$51k
Mississippi5200.41.2×$55k
South Dakota5101.13.0×$63k
Idaho5000.61.6×$63k
West Virginia4700.71.8×$45k
Nebraska4000.41.1×$65k
Rhode Island2800.61.5×$76k
Wyoming2600.92.5×$61k
Montana2500.51.3×$62k
New Hampshire2500.41.0×$75k
North Dakota2400.61.5×$65k
Maine2300.41.0×$81k
Alaska2000.61.7×$80k
Kentucky1400.10.2×$59k
Delaware1300.30.7×$58k
Hawaii1300.20.6×$80k
Washington DC1100.20.4×$108k
Vermont950.30.8×$64k~

Top metro areas

  1. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ2,590 jobs · $83k median
  2. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA2,240 jobs · $92k median
  3. Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX1,360 jobs · $64k median
  4. Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA1,250 jobs · $65k median
  5. Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ1,200 jobs · $51k median
  6. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX1,070 jobs · $76k median
  7. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN970 jobs · $77k median
  8. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV830 jobs · $82k median

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Pay and outlook from BLS (OEWS 2025, Employment Projections 2025-2035). Skills and work activities from O*NET 30.3. AI exposure and future-proof scores are modeled estimates. How these numbers are made.