Salaries for recently licensed surveyors are approximately $90,000, while surveyors in managerial roles can earn packages around $150-$200k per year. Read more about what it’s really like to be a surveyor.

Land Surveyor Industry Entry-level surveyor salaries tend to be around $19.56 per hour or $40,684 annually, according to the BLS. The lowest 10 percent of land surveyors earned less than $36,110, while the median land surveyor salary was $63,420. The highest 10 percent of surveyors earned $104,850 annually.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), you’ll need at least a bachelor’s degree to work as surveyor (www.bls.gov). You’ll find many universities offer bachelor’s degree programs in cartography, surveying, and geography. Degrees in engineering and computer science are also useful for this occupation.

Highest paying cities for Land Surveyors in United States

• Phoenix, AZ. 19 salaries reported. $82,415. per year.
• Austin, TX. 9 salaries reported. $81,136. per year.
• Denver, CO. 15 salaries reported. $73,233. per year.
• Fort Worth, TX. 9 salaries reported. $71,134. per year.
• Fort Myers, FL. 6 salaries reported. $68,142. per year.

The Australian Government has also reported that the current labour market rating for ‘surveyor’ has been classified as ‘shortage’. In particular, New South Wales and Victoria are reporting the most significant shortages.

Engineering Surveying is the wide term used to describe the work of surveyors on civil engineering works. Engineering surveyors do planning, design, develop, maintenance & operate systematic process to collect and analyzing spatial information about the land, the oceans, natural resources, and man-made features.