Money · 1 of 4

What fire inspectors make

Median

$95,000

Lower end

$60,000

Upper end

$128,000

Job Bank's national median for fire inspectors is $45.79 an hour, about $95,000 a year full time. That is the same wage line as firefighters, which makes sense: most inspectors are firefighters who moved into prevention and stay on the department's pay grid.