Photographs and documents historic buildings for surveys and reports.
You drive a rural county photographing barns and farmhouses, note each one's style and condition, and enter it into a statewide database.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in history or preservation; often a first job.
Ways in: 4-year college. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Historic Preservation, History, Architecture.
Growing about average. No separate BLS projection for this specialty; rating is an estimate based on industry trends.
Medium risk in 5 years, high in 10. Drones, phone lidar and AI auto-document buildings, so fewer junior survey jobs; field judgment still matters.
Classes: AP US History, Photography, Computer applications.
Official data: O*NET occupation 19-4061.
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