How much do Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage make in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA?

Percentile spread

For Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage, the published 10th percentile is $78,410 and the 90th percentile is $100,140. The difference is $21,730, which is 27.7% of the median. Ten percent of measured wages fall below the 10th percentile and ten percent fall above the 90th. How to read a percentile.

The middle half of the distribution, from the 25th percentile at $78,450 to the 75th at $86,890, covers $8,440.

The mean annual wage is $85,500, which sits above the median of $78,450. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA median is 0.3% higher than the national median of $78,240 for Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage. In 2024 national prices the local median is $70,591, which is 9.8% lower than that same national median. The national figure is already in national prices because the United States parity is 100.

It is about the same as the Washington median of $78,450.

Price-adjusted pay

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA is 111.133, with the United States at 100. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released those parities on February 19, 2026. Dividing the May 2025 median of $78,450 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage at $70,591 in national prices. The wage year and the price year are different. Compare this wage after prices.

Nearby metros

No other metropolitan area within 200 miles has a published annual median for Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage in the May 2025 tables. A wage from farther away is not filled in. When a wage is not published.

Employment share

Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage accounts for 0.01% of wage-and-salary employment in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA (160 of 2,086,210). Nationally the occupation is 0.01% of employment (11,560 of 155,495,730). The local share is 1.03 times the national share. That ratio is the location quotient computed from these May 2025 employment counts. It is not copied from the location-quotient column in the BLS bulk file.