Why surveying jobs need their own board
Search “surveyor” on a big job site and you get insurance adjusters, market research callers, home inspectors and quantity surveyors mixed in with the real thing.
A firm that needs a party chief for a highway job can get lost in that noise, and a field tech who wants to move toward a license has to dig through pages of ads that have nothing to do with surveying.
Every listing here involves measuring, mapping or staking the land, whether the work is boundary, ALTA, topographic, construction layout, hydrographic, mining or aerial mapping.
The same title can mean very different jobs from one employer to the next.
A “survey technician” might run a robotic total station on a building site, draft plats in an office all week, fly a drone over a quarry or hold the rod on a two-person boundary crew, and the skills, pay and hours for each are not alike.
So listings, pay pages and guides on this board are sorted by the work a person really does, not by whichever title an employer typed into the ad.
Who operates SurveyorHires
I am Gabriel Meierotto, the founder of SurveyorHires, and I read and sign off on every page before it is published.
I am not a land surveyor, a surveyor in training or a survey technician. I have never run an instrument, held a rod or drafted a plat, I hold no surveying license or geomatics degree, and this site is not tied to any survey firm, engineering company, professional society, licensing board or government agency.
Nothing on this site is legal, licensing or employment advice, so please do not treat it that way.
What I run is the board, which means getting surveying openings in front of the people who can do the work, and keeping every listing accurate and easy to read.
Where a page covers licensing steps, exams or pay, it sends you to the state licensing board, the exam provider or the federal wage data instead of asking you to trust me.
Questions about your own license, exam eligibility or renewal belong with the board or agency that handles it.
How surveying listings get onto the board
Firm owners, survey managers, HR staff, public agency hiring offices and recruiters who place survey staff can post their openings here themselves.
We also pull in surveying jobs that employers have already published on their own career pages or on public job feeds.
Those listings link back to the employer's own posting, so you apply with the employer directly and nobody in between sees your details.
The one paid upgrade that affects order is Featured, which adds a badge and places the job above Standard listings on the matching role and city pages.
No other purchase changes where a job shows up.
How the surveying career guides are sourced
Field techs, LSITs and people new to the trade lean on licensing steps, exam details and pay figures when they choose a job or a path.
Getting one of those wrong could cost someone an exam sitting or a fair offer, so every guide follows the same rules:
- Each statement about licensing, exams or survey standards links to the state board, statute, exam provider or standards body it came from.
- Every state page shows the date its licensing details were last checked against the source.
- Pay figures come from BLS OEWS with the occupation code listed, and since BLS publishes no wage for survey firms alone, the page names the wider group the number covers.
- When a rule or standard changes, such as a board revising its experience requirement, the page summarizes the change, cites it and does not give legal advice.
A page shows a “reviewed by” line only if a named surveying professional with the right background has actually read it.
Reviewers are never invented, and no writer is ever credited with a license or title they lack.
Treat the guides as a first step when you weigh employers, offers or a move into a new kind of survey work.
For your own situation, such as what experience counts toward your license, ask the state board that will review your application.
Spotted an error?
Licensing boards revise their rules, standards get new editions, wage data is refreshed every year and good survey jobs fill quickly, so parts of this site will go stale.
Email the page link and the line you think is wrong to [email protected] and I will check it and fix it.
People in the field and in survey offices usually catch these changes before anyone else, so corrections from them are always appreciated.