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Job Description

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.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 17-1022.00
The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 63,480.00
The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 30.00
Currently, there are 43,340 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Surveyors”.

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Tasks for “Surveyor”

Train assistants and helpers, and direct their work in such activities as performing surveys or drafting maps.
Coordinate findings with the work of engineering and architectural personnel, clients, and others concerned with projects.
Direct aerial surveys of specified geographical areas.
Establish fixed points for use in making maps, using geodetic and engineering instruments.
Plan and conduct ground surveys designed to establish baselines, elevations, and other geodetic measurements.
Survey bodies of water to determine navigable channels and to secure data for construction of breakwaters, piers, and other marine structures.
Locate and mark sites selected for geophysical prospecting activities such as efforts to locate petroleum or other mineral products.
Analyze survey objectives and specifications to prepare survey proposals or to direct others in survey proposal preparation.
Record the results of surveys including the shape, contour, location, elevation, and dimensions of land or land features.
Write descriptions of property boundary surveys for use in deeds, leases, or other legal documents.
Direct or conduct surveys to establish legal boundaries for properties, based on legal deeds and titles.
Determine specifications for photographic equipment to be used for aerial photography, as well as altitudes from which to photograph terrain.
Compute geodetic measurements and interpret survey data to determine positions, shapes, and elevations of geomorphic and topographic features.
Calculate heights, depths, relative positions, property lines, and other characteristics of terrain.
Prepare or supervise preparation of all data, charts, plots, maps, records, and documents related to surveys.
Determine longitudes and latitudes of important features and boundaries in survey areas, using theodolites, transits, levels, and satellite-based global positioning systems (GPS).
Develop criteria for survey methods and procedures.
Search legal records, survey records, and land titles to obtain information about property boundaries in areas to be surveyed.
Verify the accuracy of survey data, including measurements and calculations conducted at survey sites.
Prepare and maintain sketches, maps, reports, and legal descriptions of surveys to describe, certify, and assume liability for work performed.
Develop criteria for the design and modification of survey instruments.
Conduct research in surveying and mapping methods using knowledge of techniques of photogrammetric map compilation and electronic data processing.
Adjust surveying instruments to maintain their accuracy.

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Curvimeters
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Geological compasses
Planimeters
Robotic total stations
Prism poles
Single-beam echo sounders
Machetes
Global positioning system GPS receivers
Distance meters
Electronic digital levels
Telescopic viewers
Digital measuring poles
Altimeters
Surveyors leveling rods
Side scan sonars
Integrated global positioning systems GPS
Measuring rods
Automatic slope lasers
Automatic levels
Line lasers
Invisible beam lasers
Handheld measuring lasers
Electronic digital theodolites
Philadelphia rods
San Francisco rods
Magnetic locators
Barometers
Double right-angle prisms
Stereoscopes
Abney levels
Direct elevation rods
Gammon reels
Rod levels
Right-angle prisms
Rotary lasers
Dot lasers
Digital laser rangefinders
Single-beam transducers
Mechanical theodolites
Prismless total stations
Tribrachs
Two way radios
Elevator tripods
Plumb bobs
Total stations
Long range reflectorless total stations
Robotic tripods
Reflectorless total stations
Laser scanners
Transit levels
Laser plumb bobs
Pocket transits
Laptop computers
Hand levels
Visible beam lasers
Measuring tapes
Tracking lasers
Road measuring wheels
Clinometers
Tripods
Depth gauge tapes

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