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What building inspectors make
Inspector
$80,000
Trainee inspector
$51,000
Chief building official
$114,000
Job Bank's national median is $38.46 an hour, about $80,000 a year full time. Job Bank groups building inspectors with other construction inspectors under one code. Big-city municipal inspectors sit above the median, and chief building officials in large cities earn well above the top figure.