This time includes evenings and weekends in order to meet clients' schedules. Appraisers use computers to store, analyze, and retrieve information as well as to make appraisal reports. Wages vary according to training, experience and location. Entry level wages may be lower. Pay for appraisers varies by area of the country, the type of property appraised, and experience.
Many appraisers are self-employed.
Thus they have to provide their own health insurance, car, and office. This applies to appraisers who work for real estate sales firms as well. Many firms do not provide health insurance or paid vacation to their employees because so many of them work part-time. There were 860 people employed as real estate appraisers in Indiana in 1998. It is estimated that between 1996 and 2006, about 32 jobs per year will need to be filled in this occupation.