How much do home inspectors make: Inspector Pay Benchmark
The median published figure in the Inspector Pay Benchmark is 74,690 USD across 2 sources' own pages (range 74,690 to 74,690 USD), read 12 October 2026.
Intakez sells its own paid plan in this category (our pricing). It is not counted here: every figure in this index is another provider's own published price, read from its own page.
2 of the 7 named sources read in full publish a figure; 5 publish none, read 12 October 2026.
The median is unchanged since 26 September 2026 (was 74,690 USD across 2).
By measure
| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| measuremedian annual wage, SOC 47-4011 | 74,690USD | 74,690 to 74,690USD | 2 |
Every figure, with its source
One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.
| Source | Figure | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, construction and building inspectors | 74,690USD | median annual wage, SOC 47-4011 | 2026-10-12 |
| O*NET OnLine, 47-4011.00 construction and building inspectors | 74,690USD | median annual wage, SOC 47-4011 | 2026-10-12 |
The sentence each figure was read from (2)
- BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, construction and building inspectors, read 2026-10-12:
2025 Median Pay $74,690 per year
- O*NET OnLine, 47-4011.00 construction and building inspectors, read 2026-10-12:
Median wages $35.91 hourly, $74,690 annual
Read in full, publishes no figure
5 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.
- BLS OEWS, occupation profile 47-4011, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- BLS, national employment and wage data by occupation (OEWS Table 1), read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- BLS OEWS, Texas state estimates, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- BLS OEWS, Florida state estimates, read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- My Next Move, data sources for 47-4011, read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
Methodology
Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).
2 of the 7 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 5 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 1 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.
The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in USD (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 5 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.
The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): the official wage distribution for the occupation (SOC 47-4011) laid beside what our own fee index says a self-employed inspector grosses per job, so the page can answer the question the wage table cannot: the number of inspections a month implied by each wage decile at the published fees in that state; plus the state-by-state wage spread and its movement release over release, which BLS publishes as a table and nobody joins to prices
5 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.
Sources (8)
- BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, construction and building inspectors(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BLS OEWS, occupation profile 47-4011(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BLS, national employment and wage data by occupation (OEWS Table 1)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- O*NET OnLine, 47-4011.00 construction and building inspectors(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BLS OEWS, Texas state estimates(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BLS OEWS, Florida state estimates(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- My Next Move, data sources for 47-4011(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- CareerOneStop occupation profile(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
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The median published figure in the Inspector Pay Benchmark is 74,690 USD across 2 sources' own pages (range 74,690 to 74,690 USD), read 12 October 2026.
2 of the 7 named sources read in full publish a figure; 5 publish none, read 12 October 2026.
Inspector Pay Benchmark, measure median annual wage, SOC 47-4011: median 74,690 USD across 2 sources, read 12 October 2026.
The median is unchanged since 26 September 2026 (was 74,690 USD across 2).
Cite as: "Intakez Inspector Pay Benchmark", updated 2026-10-18, https://intakez.com/datasets/inspector-pay-benchmark/.
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