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.
11,560 people do this job in the US. $78,240 a year.
of the working time. Estimate.
- 72%
- 0%
- 28%
Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 1%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 71%. Today's estimate: 72%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
The tasks
Sorted by . 7 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Examine damaged vehicle to determine extent of structural, body, mechanical, electrical, or interior damage.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 28% | 1.1 h25 min to 1.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Estimate parts and labor to repair damage, using standard automotive labor and parts cost manuals and knowledge of automotive repair.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 23% | 46 min25 min to 1.4 h | 100%Half by now | |
| Review repair cost estimates with automobile repair shop to secure agreement on cost of repairs.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 20% | 42 min25 min to 1.3 h | 100%Half by now | |
| Prepare insurance forms to indicate repair cost estimates and recommendations.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 12% | 25 min13 min to 50 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Evaluate practicality of repair as opposed to payment of market value of vehicle before accident.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 10% | 29 min17 min to 50 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Determine salvage value on total-loss vehicle.Done daily by most who do it. | 6% | 33 min17 min to 58 min | 100%Half by now | |
| Arrange to have damage appraised by another appraiser to resolve disagreement with shop on repair cost.Done yearly or less by most who do it. | 1% | 25 min13 min to 50 min | 100%Half by now |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
Jobs that share skills with this one
From O*NET's related occupations. Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Transportation Vehicle, Equipment and Systems Inspectors, Except Aviation13% now, 28% by 2028
- Automotive Body and Related Repairers7% now, 8% by 2028
- Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics4% now, 4% by 2028
- Appraisers of Personal and Business Property48% now, 75% by 2028
- Automotive Engineering Technicians13% now, 19% by 2028
- Cost Estimators9% now, 87% by 2028
Where this job works
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