How much do draw inspectors get paid?

What a draw inspection pays.

Across the market, a draw inspector is paid per completed report rather than by the hour, and the figure depends on who sends the work, where the property is, how far the inspector drives and what the job asks for. A routine single-family draw pays less than a rural site, a multi-unit building or a long draw sheet, and an independent inspector who works for several lenders or networks sees a different fee from each.

RAZE publishes what it pays. A standard single-family draw inspection pays $60 to $85 to the inspector. Duplexes to quadplexes pay more, and a rare job can pay up to $250. What a lender pays RAZE for the inspection is a separate figure, published on the RAZE Rate Card; the fee on this page is what reaches the inspector.

Why it matters for inspectors.

The fee is only half of the answer; the other half is when it arrives. An inspector who invoices a lender at month end and waits for a check is financing that lender's draw program. At RAZE, every inspection submitted Sunday through Saturday is grouped into one payment and direct deposited the following Friday morning, with its own Payment ID listing the inspections it covers. Some banks post it sooner. There is nothing to invoice, and the Fee Tracker in the RAZE Mobile App shows every payment. The mechanics, screen by screen, are in how RAZE pays inspectors weekly.

Never read a per-inspection fee as an income figure. How many inspections an inspector completes depends on where they are, how many lenders build there and how much of the week they give to the work, so any monthly or annual number would be a guess.

How the fee is set.

The RAZE Draw Inspection Support team sets each fee from what the job asks of the inspector, not from a market rate: drive time to the site, the number of jobs in the trip, access to the site, the length of the draw sheet and the type of job. The fee is shown on the job in the RAZE Mobile App before the inspector locks it, and whenever Draw Inspection Support updates a fee, the app sends a price alert. How jobs reach an inspector is covered in how draw inspection assignments are offered.

How RAZE handles it.

Inspectors on the RAZE Inspection Network complete every assignment in the RAZE Mobile App, see the fee before they accept a job, and are paid by direct deposit every Friday for the prior week's submissions. Joining starts at the Vendor Application, which lists the screening and insurance standards every inspector meets before an assignment is visible; the path in is covered in how to become a draw inspector.