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Civil Engineering Technicians

SOC 17-3022

Support civil engineers with drawings, calculations, and site testing.

The job
Median pay
$65k
$51k to $81k typical range
Outlook, 2025 to 2035
Growing
+3.2% projected
Openings a year
6k
BLS projection
Typical education
Associate's
Our model
AI displacement risk
High
How much of this job AI may do instead of the person
Works with AI
7/100
AI alongside the person rather than instead of them
AI exposure
75th pct
More exposed than 75% of occupations · modeled estimate · 69th pct in Microsoft's data
Future-proof
48/100

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Key skills

Pay and jobs by state

BLS OEWS May 2025, 51 states. Sorted by jobs; per 1,000 is jobs per thousand workers in the state; vs national compares that rate with the country's. A tilde marks a figure estimated from the parent occupation group where BLS publishes none.

StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
California7,2500.40.9×$83k
Texas4,4700.30.7×$59k
Illinois4,1900.71.6×$79k
Florida4,0300.40.9×$63k
Georgia3,8400.81.8×$50k
Michigan2,9300.71.5×$58k
North Carolina2,7600.61.3×$59k
Pennsylvania2,2900.40.9×$64k
Washington2,0900.61.3×$80k
Minnesota2,0300.71.6×$79k
All 51 states
StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
Kentucky1,8600.92.1×$60k
Colorado1,8200.61.4×$59k
Alabama1,8000.91.9×$53k
Ohio1,7900.30.7×$65k
New York1,7100.20.4×$74k
Tennessee1,6500.51.1×$57k
Wisconsin1,5600.51.2×$74k
South Carolina1,4800.61.5×$54k
Virginia1,4800.40.8×$67k
Missouri1,3000.41.0×$61k
Iowa1,1300.71.6×$73k
Kansas1,0600.71.7×$59k
Arizona1,0500.30.7×$64k
Indiana1,0400.30.7×$64k
Oregon9700.51.1×$85k
Mississippi8000.71.6×$46k
Nevada8000.51.2×$75k
New Jersey7600.20.4×$71k
New Mexico7100.81.9×$62k
Massachusetts6800.20.4×$71k
Utah6300.40.8×$64k
Maryland6200.20.5×$63k
West Virginia5200.71.7×$53k
South Dakota4601.02.3×$61k
Idaho4400.51.2×$63k
Louisiana4100.20.5×$68k
North Dakota4000.92.1×$65k
Oklahoma4000.20.5×$60k
Nebraska3700.40.8×$67k
Delaware3500.71.6×$62k
Arkansas3470.30.6×$52k~
Connecticut3300.20.4×$73k
Montana3100.61.4×$61k
Washington DC3090.41.0×$82k~
New Hampshire3000.41.0×$64k
Wyoming3001.12.4×$56k
Maine2900.51.0×$68k
Alaska2300.71.6×$71k
Vermont2000.71.5×$74k
Rhode Island1400.30.6×$64k
Hawaii1200.20.4×$64k

Top metro areas

  1. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN2,250 jobs · $81k median
  2. Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI1,840 jobs · $57k median
  3. Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA1,820 jobs · $59k median
  4. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA1,670 jobs · $84k median
  5. Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD1,330 jobs · $64k median
  6. San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA1,270 jobs · $98k median
  7. Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO1,260 jobs · $59k median
  8. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ1,250 jobs · $74k median

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Pay and outlook from BLS (OEWS 2025, Employment Projections 2025-2035). Skills and work activities from O*NET 30.3. AI exposure and future-proof scores are modeled estimates. How these numbers are made.