I am currently going through the basic training at Vanguard to apply for an inspector position. These involve watching videos, taking a few notes, passing a few respective quizzes, and some application paperwork/acknowledgments of certain items. Items covered involved safety, ethics, fraud, how to speak to applicants, how their inspection program and tablet works, everything you would basically expect to go through and get trained on before you started your job, plus there’s apparently some field office training after deployment.
Vanguard from what I saw, pays $40/hour at a billable 60 hours per week. The idea is that each inspection should take around an hour to complete. The other vendor you sent out recently I believe starts at $35/inspection and goes up to 40, then 45 after you complete enough inspections. Since this is a government contractor/job, most, if not all nominal expenses are also reimbursed (travel, meals, gas, lodging, etc.). This is still considered a 1099 job and “temporary” but that could mean anywhere from 6 months to 6 years in the field.
How long to go through the initial training and paperwork to apply? Chipping away at it, someone could hammer it all out within 7-10 days if you stay on top of it. If you can cram it all in and have the free time, 2-4 days. Modules vary in time, some take just a few minutes while a couple of others can take 45min-1 hour to go through.
To note, I have not been approved or hired yet, but I’m going through this because one can’t argue too much for the pay! About the only thing that would top this is if you are setup with a lot of vendors and have a reliable stream of work coming in doing commercial or other disaster-type inspections.
Finally, I think you mentioned it but do beware: There are very few official FEMA vendors out there. Anyone else offering such work is either subbing it, or an outright fraud so be weary before you take any of those $15 jobs that allegedly are for or under FEMA.
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