Marks exactly where buildings, roads, and bridges go on a construction site.
You use a robotic total station to stake where every column of a new building will sit, accurate to an eighth of an inch.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Associate's degree (2-year), about 3 years after high school. Survey tech degree or years on a survey crew.
Ways in: 2-year college, On-the-job training. Training cost: Under $15k.
Majors to look at: Surveying Technology, Civil Engineering Technology.
Growing about average. No separate BLS projection for this specialty; rating is an estimate based on industry trends.
Medium risk for 10 years. Layout robots and GPS machine control reduce staking; setting control and checking tricky sites still need people.
Classes: Geometry, Trigonometry, Construction CTE.
Official data: O*NET occupation 17-1022.
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