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Get Ready ... Your Land Surveying Career Starts Now!
Congratulations! By visiting
www.surveytexas.org, you've taken the first step toward an exciting and
rewarding career in Texas land surveying!
 Opportunities
for Registered Professional Land Surveyors (RPLS) in Texas are
boundless. Combining detective work with high-tech field
measurements and computer-aided drafting, Texas land surveyors are an
integral component in land development and growth across the state.
 Surveyors
also occupy a respected position among professionals in Texas, and
compensation for registered surveyors and land surveying paraprofessionals
has continued to grow enormously.
A recent Salary Survey of members of the Texas Society of Professional
Surveyors found an average annual salary of $84,396 for RPLSs ($77,383
for RPLSs licensed 5 years or less, and $87,099 for RPLSs licensed 5
years or more).
Texas non-RPLSs (Surveyors-in-Training, Office Technicians, Party Chiefs,
Instrument Persons) are also well-compensated, earning on average of
$44,489 annually.
View Land Surveying Career Videos Here!
When you consider demand for RPLSs has increased while the number of
registered surveyors in Texas has actually decreased due to retirement, you
realize the land surveying career path is like gold. Your services will be
in demand like no other profession, and whether you wish to work for an
existing surveying or engineering company, a government agency such as the
Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) or start your own land surveying
business, the sky's the limit for the Texas land surveyor.
Texas & National Surveyors Week - March 15-21, 2009
Tell your friends and
neighbors that this week is Texas & National Surveys Week ... the perfect
opportunity to educate and enlighten the public about the land surveying
profession. Find out what your local chapter is doing to commemorate this week,
and plan to join TSPS as we celebrate Surveyors Week at 2009 TSPS
Symposium in Waco March 20-21. Be on hand Friday night (March 20) at 6:30
p.m. at the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame & Museum for a GeoCache Ceremony
& Reception. Tour the museum (which includes an exhibit highlighting the
interconnected history of the Texas Rangers and land surveying) with the many
attendees of this year's Symposium..
VIEW SYMPOSIUM BROCHURE
MAP TO TEXAS RANGER MUSEUM
And guess who's footsteps you'd be following? Just land surveyors George
Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. Pretty good
company!
Take time to peruse this site, and make perhaps the wisest and most
fulfilling career choice you can make ... in land surveying!
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