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Surveyors

SOC 17-1022

Measure land precisely to set legal boundaries and guide construction.

The job
Median pay
$75k
$58k to $98k typical range
Outlook, 2025 to 2035
Growing fast
+5.8% projected
Openings a year
3k
BLS projection
Typical education
Bachelor's
Our model
AI displacement risk
Low
How much of this job AI may do instead of the person
Works with AI
25/100
AI alongside the person rather than instead of them
AI exposure
38th pct
More exposed than 38% of occupations · modeled estimate · 52nd pct in Microsoft's data
Future-proof
61/100

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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
Texas6,4100.51.4×$61k
California4,5200.20.8×$105k
Florida4,0000.41.2×$65k
Georgia1,7700.41.1×$58k
Illinois1,7100.30.9×$76k
Colorado1,6200.61.7×$79k
Pennsylvania1,6100.30.8×$76k
North Carolina1,5300.30.9×$76k
New York1,4700.20.5×$79k
Louisiana1,4600.82.3×$63k
All 51 states
StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
Arizona1,3600.41.3×$77k
Virginia1,3600.31.0×$71k
Ohio1,3000.20.7×$71k
Massachusetts1,2900.41.1×$95k
Michigan1,0500.20.7×$72k
South Carolina1,0000.41.3×$63k
Minnesota9800.31.0×$84k
Oklahoma9600.61.7×$61k
Maryland9500.31.1×$65k
Tennessee9200.30.9×$76k
Alabama9100.41.3×$67k
New Jersey9000.20.6×$77k
Indiana8700.30.8×$81k
Missouri8300.30.9×$62k
Washington7800.20.7×$86k
Kentucky6700.31.0×$72k
Utah6500.41.1×$73k
West Virginia6300.92.8×$62k
Wisconsin6100.20.6×$80k
Mississippi5700.51.5×$59k
Arkansas5500.41.3×$52k
Oregon5300.30.8×$97k
Nevada4900.31.0×$82k
Iowa4500.30.9×$77k
Connecticut4300.30.8×$77k
Nebraska4300.41.3×$68k
Kansas3500.20.7×$76k
Montana3500.72.1×$85k
New Mexico2900.31.0×$74k
New Hampshire2800.41.3×$65k
Maine2700.41.3×$83k
Alaska2500.82.4×$100k
Idaho2500.30.9×$74k
North Dakota2500.61.8×$79k
Wyoming2400.92.6×$81k
Washington DC2290.31.0×$95k~
South Dakota1800.41.2×$77k
Rhode Island1500.30.9×$63k
Hawaii1400.20.7×$82k
Delaware1200.20.8×$83k
Vermont1090.41.1×$76k~

Top metro areas

  1. Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX1,960 jobs · $63k median
  2. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX1,400 jobs · $66k median
  3. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ1,300 jobs · $84k median
  4. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN1,140 jobs · $80k median
  5. Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA1,100 jobs · $57k median
  6. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH1,070 jobs · $95k median
  7. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA970 jobs · $102k median
  8. Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ970 jobs · $80k 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.