Engineering
Surveyors
Make exact measurements and determine property boundaries. Provide data relevant to the shape, contour, gravitation, location, elevation, or dimension of land or land features on or near the earth's surface for engineering, mapmaking, mining, land evaluation, construction, and other purposes.
Median salary
$72,740
Typical range
$44k – $116k
Job outlook
+4% (faster than average)
AI exposure
Plan a path to Surveyors
Education
Typical entry: Bachelor's degree
Plan my path to this →Typical progression
Surveyors Intern
Internship
$36,000
~4 mos to advance
Junior Surveyors
Entry / Junior
$43,680
~2 yrs to advance
Surveyors
Established
$72,740
~3 yrs to advance
Senior Surveyors
Senior
$94,535
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Key skills
A typical day
- •Direct or conduct surveys to establish legal boundaries for properties, based on legal deeds and titles.
- •Prepare and maintain sketches, maps, reports, and legal descriptions of surveys to describe, certify, and assume liability for work performed.
- •Write descriptions of property boundary surveys for use in deeds, leases, or other legal documents.
- •Verify the accuracy of survey data, including measurements and calculations conducted at survey sites.
- •Search legal records, survey records, and land titles to obtain information about property boundaries in areas to be surveyed.
Fields of study
Any field
Top colleges for Engineering
Explore all- Massachusetts Institute of Technology4% admit · $124,000 grad pay
- Stanford University4% admit · $122,000 grad pay
- University of California, Berkeley11% admit · $97,000 grad pay
- Georgia Institute of Technology16% admit · $99,000 grad pay
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign45% admit · $80,000 grad pay
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