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Surveyors
Make exact measurements and determine property boundaries. Provide data relevant to the shape, contour, gravitation, location, elevation, or dimension of land or land features on or near the earth's surface for engineering, mapmaking, mining, land evaluation, construction, and other purposes.
What a surveyor does
Become a surveyor
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good surveyor
- Using math to solve problems.
- Reading work related information.
- Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
- Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one.
- Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Wage information is not available. Average annual earnings data is currently unavailable.
Surveyor job outlook
- There are 848 workers in this occupation in Washington.
- There are 145 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.