Information Provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook
Surveyors
About 2 out of 3 jobs were in architectural, engineering, and related services. Opportunities will be best for surveyors, cartographers, and photogrammetrists who have a bachelors degree and strong technical skills. Applicants for jobs as technicians may face competition.
On average, Surveyors earn $ 48,290 per year.
Job Opportunities for Engineering Careers are
expected to:
Increase as fast as the average.
Survey Technology/ Surveying
Aerospace Engineers
Architects
Surveyors, cartographers, and photogrammetrists are responsible for measuring and mapping the Earths surface. Surveyors establish official land, airspace, and water boundaries. They write descriptions of land for deeds, leases, and other legal documents; define airspace for airports; and take measurements of construction and mineral sites.
Most surveyors, cartographers, and photogrammetrists have a bachelors degree in surveying or a related field. Every State requires that surveyors be licensed.
The architectural, engineering, and related services industryincluding firms that provided surveying and mapping services to other industries on a contract basisprovided 7 out of 10 jobs for these workers. Federal, State, and local governmental agencies provided about 14 percent of these jobs. Major Federal Government employers are the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the National Geodetic Survey, the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, and the Army Corps of Engineers.
ASPRS: Imaging and Geospatial Information Society
MAPPS: Management Association for Private Photogrammetric Surveyors
merican Congress on Surveying and Mapping
