The $100/hour or more we typically bill out is not bad income for a job that only requires a high school diploma. For that matter, states without certification don't even require that.

To try and knock down the other professions in the housing industry is pointless. This is the USA and at the heart of it is our (mostly) free economy and things like supply and demand. If others are making more, than their services or product are more in demand and people are willing to pay more for them. Agree with it or not, that's just the facts.

I agree in a perfect world crawling through rat crap would pay more than filling out numbers on closing documents. But we don't live in a perfect world. A teacher, policeman or social worker should probably make more than a home inspector. You can try and justify and rank things all day long but, in reality, the money isn't always in line with the job done. I'm too young (and not enough of a history buff) to know but I belive if the money lined up directly with the job done our system would be called Communism or Socialism or some 'ism' that we don't have here.