How Much Does A Appraiser Trainee Should Be Getting Paid?

[Michael S]

I had a salary of $30,000 a year as a commercial trainee. Typical week was 45-50 hours. I wasn't writing complete reports until 12-18 months in.

 

[DCFjay13]

I was a tranny for about 6 month back in 02. No one ever paid me for it. Hope this helps

 

[DCFjay13]

I starting as a trainee back in 02. Averaged around 40hr a week. First six months were unpaid. Then I was paid $250 per week for the next six months and then $500 per week for my final year of training.

Funny story. Years later I was applying for a job and on my resume I stated. "Appraisal tranny from 2002-2004". They never called me for an interview.

 

[DCFjay13]

I was a tranny for about 6 month back in 02. No one ever paid me for it. Hope this helps

Was going to post this as a joke. Then decided not to and accidentally did it anyways. That's what I get for posting from my phone. Oh well, hope it makes someone laugh.

 

[TC]

You guys hiring?

 

[jtinmichigan]

How Much Does A Appraiser Trainee Should Be Getting Paid?

I would think that they would get more as their sentence structure improved.

My old mentor would have docked my pay $50 for writing that sentence. Really!! Out of roughly $100 per report, which was good money back in the day. Only happened once.

 

[Gobears81]

How Much Does A Appraiser Trainee Should Be Getting Paid?

I would think that they would get more as their sentence structure improved.

My old mentor would have docked my pay $50 for writing that sentence. Really!! Out of roughly $100 per report, which was good money back in the day. Only happened once.

Better put than anything I could come up with

OP-just remember that while you are regarding yourself as earning your way, it typically takes several years before you become an asset to the company, and by then, there could be the risk that the supervisor has effectively trained his new competitor. Are you currently bringing in business from clients that the company didn't have before? If things are slow, maybe every report you take is money out of their pocket. If the supervisor is still inspecting with you, that also costs them money, in addition to reviewing your work after. It typically takes at least a couple of years, and maybe more, before you shift from replaceable to an asset for the company. Not sure what kind of benefit structure you are getting, but even in high-priced SoCal, this split strikes me as a good deal. When I started, I received good benefits, but on residential work, averaged an effective split of $60 per report. That is over a decade ago and fees have gone up since (as has my pay), but nonetheless, this is not a profession for those expecting a decent salary to start.

 

[Michigander]

How Much Does A Appraiser Trainee Should Be Getting Paid?

I would think that they would get more as their sentence structure improved.

My old mentor would have docked my pay $50 for writing that sentence. Really!! Out of roughly $100 per report, which was good money back in the day. Only happened once.

While this is funny, the OP might not have English as his/her first language, so a bit of a struggle. No spell and grammar check on the forum (that I am aware of at least).

 

[Sandra Koutsopoulos]

re: OP bad grammar... it is clear from the post that his/her mentor has their hands full re-writing OP's appraisal commentary, assuming the mentor puts out a good final product. Doesn't matter whether English is primary or secondary language; no excuse for lousy quality of report. I've had 1 trainee with ESL issue, which required more of my time to clean up his reports, and another trainee whose verbose overly rambling commentary took more time to tame into readable language than if I had done the whole report from scratch; I couldn't afford the hours of correction/clarification per each appraisal and had to let her go. She didn't understand that every time you say something in a report, that opens the door to litigation, and so don't ever say anything that can't be corroborated, or isn't truthful, and don't speculate about things not germain to the issue at hand. If you open the door, worst case scenario, some legal eagle will walk you through it and you will not like where you find yourself.
That said, answering original question, despite having 20+ years as real estate broker, I was paid $30/appraisal, then $60, then $90 after more than a year, and after obtaining my Certified Residential Appraiser License, I was paid $150 each... but that was after more than 2 years in. Appraisal fees at that time (18 years ago) were about $25 less than fees today. Now THAT's depressing!

 

[Howard Klahr]

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