APPRAISAL BUZZ SPRING 2020 | 17
INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS
ARE YOU AS
INDEPENDENT
AS YOU THINK?
BY PETER CHRISTENSEN
An Appraisal Buzz online survey
after the Las Vegas Valuation Expo
in October of 2019 revealed
interesting information about
independent contractors working for
about appraisal management
companies here – AMCs, of course,
utilize hundreds or thousands of
independent contractors on their
These were the focus of the survey.
The survey asked appraisers:
“Other than yourself, how many
W-2 employees does your appraisal
many 1099 contractors does your
53% of appraisers responding to the
survey reported that they were sole
proprietors and had no employees
or contractors regularly working for
most appraisers work for
themselves without employees or
of appraisers reported that their
more commonly utilized
independent contractors than
using contractors, while only 20%
reported having employees. This
points to the prevalent use of
independent contractors, as
opposed to employees, in the
overall appraisal profession, not just
in AMCs.