Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage · SOC 13-1032

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damages

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025U.S. metropolitan areas

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for insurance appraisers, auto damage. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Top 25 of 41 metro areas

Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$99,670	Not published	Not published
2	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	$97,910	230	0.1
3	Macon-Bibb County, GA	$92,420	50	0.5
4	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$89,760	30	0.0
5	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$89,740	130	0.2
6	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$84,370	280	0.1
7	Salt Lake City-Murray, UT	$83,590	30	0.0
8	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	$82,850	Not published	Not published
9	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$82,750	100	0.1
10	Worcester, MA	$81,880	160	0.4
11	Columbia, SC	$81,830	40	0.1
12	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$81,370	40	0.1
13	Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA	$80,370	70	0.2
14	Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN	$80,300	50	0.0
15	Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX	$79,810	470	0.1
16	Portland-South Portland, ME	$79,510	30	0.1
17	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$79,110	240	0.1
18	Albuquerque, NM	$78,990	Not published	Not published
19	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$78,970	30	0.0
20	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$78,930	130	0.0
21	Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV	$78,510	80	0.1
22	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$78,450	160	0.1
23	Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN	$77,810	140	0.1
24	Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI	$77,700	180	0.1
25	Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI	$76,370	Not published	Not published

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage overview.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.