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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.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
AI Exposure
36/100
Low

How much of this occupation’s work can be materially affected by current AI systems.

Replacement Risk
44/100
Moderate

How likely exposure is to translate into reduced human demand.

Includes provisional estimates for AI adoption pressure and labour-market resilience. How this is measured

Evidence quality
Confidence81/100
Task coverage85%

Confidence reflects task coverage, mapping and capability-evidence quality, and how much of the score rests on provisional inputs.

Task-level evidence

What is driving the score?

Occupation scores are built from the task mix—not a single prediction about a job title.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
TaskImportanceAI impactExposure
Prepare insurance forms to indicate repair cost estimates and recommendations.High
41
Review repair cost estimates with automobile repair shop to secure agreement on cost of repairs.High
41
Examine damaged vehicle to determine extent of structural, body, mechanical, electrical, or interior damage.High
38
Evaluate practicality of repair as opposed to payment of market value of vehicle before accident.High
37
Estimate parts and labor to repair damage, using standard automotive labor and parts cost manuals and knowledge of automotive repair.High
22
Most exposed

Where AI can do more

Routine, digitized, and highly repeatable tasks face the greatest pressure.

  1. Prepare insurance forms to indicate repair cost estimates and recommendations.41
  2. Review repair cost estimates with automobile repair shop to secure agreement on cost of repairs.41
  3. Examine damaged vehicle to determine extent of structural, body, mechanical, electrical, or interior damage.38
  4. Evaluate practicality of repair as opposed to payment of market value of vehicle before accident.37
Hardest to automate

Where people still matter

These tasks score lowest on automation feasibility—physical presence, judgement, accountability and real-world variability all resist end-to-end automation.

  1. Estimate parts and labor to repair damage, using standard automotive labor and parts cost manuals and knowledge of automotive repair.01
  2. Evaluate practicality of repair as opposed to payment of market value of vehicle before accident.02
  3. Examine damaged vehicle to determine extent of structural, body, mechanical, electrical, or interior damage.03
  4. Prepare insurance forms to indicate repair cost estimates and recommendations.04
  5. Review repair cost estimates with automobile repair shop to secure agreement on cost of repairs.05
Where else this work leads

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Occupations O*NET links to this one. Relatedness reflects shared work, not a claim that these roles are safer.

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AI risk 39

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Beyond AI capability

Adoption and labour-market outlook

Structural factors are kept separate from raw capability so you can see what actually resists automation. Adoption pressure and labour-market resilience are still provisional models—25% of this occupation’s replacement-risk weight rests on them.

Human dependency88
Physical dependency43
Adoption pressure74
Labour-market resilience65
Methodology & sources

O*NET 30.3 occupational data interpreted through the JobsVsAI capability, automation and structural-constraint models.

Confidence81/100
CalculatedAug 21, 2026
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