Jobs / Management and business operations / 13-1032.00
Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage
Appraise automobile or other vehicle damage to determine repair costs for insurance claim settlement. Prepare insurance forms to indicate repair cost or cost estimates and recommendations. May seek agreement with automotive repair shop on repair costs.
- US jobs
- 11,560
- Median wage
- $78,240 a year
- Job family
- Management and business operations
Can agents do the work of insurance appraisers, auto damage?
We read the evidence at the level of the job family, Management and business operations:
- Task levelPartialOnly adjacent evidence. On TheAgentCompany, which gives agents workplace tasks inside a simulated software company, the best agent resolves 42.9% of tasks (a November 2025 result). No task-level benchmark in our collection maps directly to management or business operations.
- Project levelPartialMixed. OpenAI reports that GPT-5.5's GDPval deliverables won or tied against professionals' work in 84.9% of comparisons, and the best agent passes 73.5% of APEX-Agents tasks on the first try. Running a business is weaker: on Vending-Bench 2 the best model ends a simulated year with $15,515, about a quarter of Andon Labs' estimate for a good strategy.
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in management and business operations, not always this occupation's tasks.
- 1846 EloClaude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback) · 23 Sep 2026Unrated
- 42.9%TTE-MatrixAgent + DeepSeek-V3.2 · 10 Nov 2025Emerging
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Evaluate practicality of repair as opposed to payment of market value of vehicle before accident.
- Review repair cost estimates with automobile repair shop to secure agreement on cost of repairs.
- Examine damaged vehicle to determine extent of structural, body, mechanical, electrical, or interior damage.
- Prepare insurance forms to indicate repair cost estimates and recommendations.
- Estimate parts and labor to repair damage, using standard automotive labor and parts cost manuals and knowledge of automotive repair.
- Determine salvage value on total-loss vehicle.
- Arrange to have damage appraised by another appraiser to resolve disagreement with shop on repair cost.
Other job titles for this occupation (41)
Appraiser · Automobile Appraiser (Auto Appraiser) · Automobile Damage Appraiser (Auto Damage Appraiser) · Damage Appraiser · Field Appraiser · Field Inspector · Insurance Appraiser · Material Damage Appraiser · Outside Physical Damage Appraiser · Physical Damage Appraiser · Appraisal Specialist · Auto Body Appraiser · Auto Body Repair Estimator · Auto Collision Estimator · Auto Damage Insurance Appraiser · Automobile Body Estimator (Auto Body Estimator) · Automobile Damage Estimator (Auto Damage Estimator) · Automobile Damage Field Appraiser (Auto Damage Field Appraiser) · Automotive Body Shop Estimator (Auto Body Shop Estimator) · Automotive Claims Adjuster (Auto Claims Adjuster) · Automotive Estimatics Inspector (Auto Estimatics Inspector) · Automotive Estimator (Auto Estimator) · Body Shop Estimator · Catastrophe Adjuster · Claims Appraiser · Collision Appraiser · Collision Center Estimator · Collision Estimator · Collision Repair Estimator · Commercial Field Inspector · Estimator · Field Auto Damage Adjuster · Field Automobile Adjuster (Field Auto Adjuster) · Field Automobile Damage Appraiser (Field Auto Damage Appraiser) · Field Property Loss Specialist · Material Damage Adjuster · Property Field Inspector · Reinspector · Total Loss Claims Adjuster · Vehicle Condition Assessor · Vehicle Damage Appraiser