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Real Estate Brokers
Operate real estate office, or work for commercial real estate firm, overseeing real estate transactions. Other duties usually include selling real estate or renting properties and arranging loans.
What a real estate broker does
Become a real estate broker
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good real estate broker
- Talking to others.
- Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
- Bringing people together to solve differences.
- Talking people into changing their minds or their behavior.
- Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Average hourly rate is $70 per hour with an average salary of $78,900 per year.
- Half of workers earn between $26 and $58 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $17,700 and $99,800 per year.
- 50% of individuals in this occupation have been employed in every quarter of the past year.
Part-time
- The average hourly rate for part-time workers is $67 per hour with an average salary of $47,400 per year.
Real Estate Broker job outlook
- There are 451 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.
Multiple Jobs
- 1% of individuals in this occupation worked for more than one employer.
- 20% of individuals in this occupation held a position in another.