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10/29/2025
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Pima County Government

Property Appraiser Ii

Tucson, Arizona Tax Assessor Full-Time In-Office $54,142 - $64,958 per year

Job Description

Job Description Summary

Department - Assessor

Job Description

Job Type: Classified

Job Classification: 5659 - Property Appraiser II

Salary Grade: 11

Pay Range

Hiring Range: $54,142 - $64,958 Annually

Pay Range: $54,142 - $75,774 Annually

Range Explanation

  • Hiring Range is an estimate of where you can receive an offer. The

actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors,

Including Your Skills, Qualifications, Experience, Education, licenses, training, and internal equity.

  • Pay Range is the entire compensation range for the position. The Assessor's office has two vacancies in Real Property, one in Commercial and one in Field Services. Classifies and appraises real property and/or personal property for tax personal, residential, commercial, land and/or industrial property for tax purposes and develops and defends property position is distinguished from Property Appraiser I by the complexity of property valuations and differs from Property Appraiser III, which provides leadership to other property appraisal staff.

Essential Functions:

As defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act, this classification may include any of the following tasks, knowledge, skills, and other characteristics. This list is ILLUSTRATIVE ONLY and is not a comprehensive listing of all functions and tasks performed by incumbents of this class. Work assignments may vary depending on the department's need and will be communicated to the applicant or incumbent by the supervisor.

  • Compiles and analyzes data to establish value of commercial, industrial, land, residential and personal property for tax appraisal;

  • Contacts commercial accounts in the field to gather information for appraisals;

  • Locates, computes and appraises secured and unsecured personal property of commercial, industrial and agricultural businesses, residential rental complexes and ranches in accordance with Department of Revenue guidelines and state statutes;

  • Gathers, verifies and analyzes information regarding sales of real property;

  • Reviews depreciation schedules, asset lists, financial statements and annual department forms to verify taxable property and to extract net operating income;

  • Inspects and appraises property at market value using established cost, market and income approaches to valuation and correlates data into a single estimate of value;

  • Makes corrections to applied valuations based on field inspections and other research;

  • Reviews valuations when petitioned by taxpayers, and defends, Arbitrates Or Testifies About Properties Before Property Owners, boards of valuation and courts of law, and appears as an expert witness in Superior Court cases;

  • Explains assessment procedures to individual taxpayers;

  • Utilizes and maintains departmental databases, spreadsheets and related networks;

  • Completes special or complex projects as requested by supervisor.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Three years of experience in construction, real estate and/or property appraisal AND one year of education in regional development, civil engineering, urban planning, property appraisal and/or real estate.

(Acceptable real estate experience includes establishing value through research of sales of comparable properties. Acceptable construction experience includes estimating and obtaining building permits.)

(Relevant experience and/or education from an accredited college or university may be substituted.)

OR:

Two years of experience with Pima County as a Property Appraiser I or Property Technician I.

  • Qualifying education and experience must be clearly documented in the "Education" and "Work Experience" sections of the not substitute a resume for your application or write "see resume" on your application.

Selection Procedure:

  • Pima County Human Resources Department reserves the right to admit to the selection process only those candidates that meet the minimum applications will be assessed based on an evaluation of the listed education and experience. Candidates meeting the minimum Qualifications May Be Further Evaluated/scored Against Any Advertised Preferred hiring authority will interview and select the successful candidate from a referral list provided by Human Resources. Additional assess