Overview & Salary

Overview

Examine, evaluate, and investigate eligibility for or conformity with laws and regulations governing contract compliance of licenses and permits, and perform other compliance and enforcement inspection and analysis activities not classified elsewhere.

On the job, you would:

  • Warn violators of infractions or penalties.
  • Evaluate applications, records, or documents to gather information about eligibility or liability issues.
  • Advise licensees or other individuals or groups concerning licensing, permit, or passport regulations.

Education

  • vocational school training
  • on-the-job experience
  • associate's degree

Salary

Annual 10th percentile $43,790
Annual median $75,670
Annual 90th percentile $123,710

Knowledge & Skills

Knowledge

Safety and Government

  • law and government
  • public safety and security

Arts and Humanities

  • English language

Business

  • customer service
  • management

Engineering and Technology

  • computers and electronics

Skills

Basic Skills

  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • reading work related information

Problem Solving

  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

Social

  • understanding people's reactions
  • looking for ways to help people

Personality & Abilities

Personality

Conventional

People interested in this work like activities that include data, detail, and regular routines.

  • Integrity
  • Dependability
  • Independence
  • Attention to Detail
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Cooperation

Abilities

Verbal

  • communicate by speaking
  • listen and understand what people say

Ideas and Logic

  • make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
  • notice when problems happen

Hearing and Speech

  • speak clearly
  • recognize spoken words
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