Land Surveyor
Establishes legal boundaries and elevations that courts and builders rely on. Licensed, field-based, and quietly in short supply.
- Pay band (est.)
- $73k–$116k
- Time to competence
- 5 years
- Licence
- Required
- Setting
- field
- Leverage
- medium
- Place constraint
- low
- Physical demand
- 60/100
- Hours burden
- 50/100
Factor percentiles
Percentile against the whole curated set. Higher is better on that factor only.
- Play27th
Absorbing rather than merely paid.
- Specific knowledge29th
A combination of skills that is hard to copy.
- Leverage49th
Output that scales through code, media, capital or crew.
- Demand61th
Durability and shortage, scored conservatively.
- Pay49th
Mid-career floor and the range above it.
- Body42th
Inverse of physical demand and hours.
- Autonomy49th
Control of methods and time.
- People fit49th
Distance from your preferred people level.
- Place flexibility71th
Remote fit and freedom from specific metros.
- Time to skill63th
Inverse of years to competence.
- Meaning load50th
Closeness to the families you marked as meaningful. Your mapping, not ours.
- Downside tolerance58th
Inverse of named risk to body, market or platform.
Downside
Weather, terrain and property disputes; slow licensure path.
Examine this against your weights
The percentiles above use the default weights. Set your own on the ranking and this vocation moves with them.
- Place constraint is low. Where you live is analysed at locationistics.com.
- Hours burden is 50/100 and people intensity 35/100. Who you are with is analysed at relationistics.com.
Source note: BLS OEWS May 2024, Surveyors (17-1022): median $72,740, 90th percentile $116,330. Outlook from BLS 2025-35 projections, +5.8%. Other scores editorial. All figures are estimates for comparison.