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What fire inspectors make
Experienced inspector
$95,000
New inspector
$60,000
Chief fire prevention officer
$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.