and I can practice my 'perfession' another year..so says the State of Connecticut!
CT has always been the most expensive of my licenses.
NY is $210 for three years, NJ is $80 per year.
I just renewed my Mississippi License. It was $37 and some change. Tennessee is $280 every two years, and I believe that my Arkansas license is $60 every two years if I remember correctly.
I just renewed my Iowa license: $100 for 2 years
Everything is bigger in Texas
Texas was $379 for one year.
Angelo, NJ Is $80 For Two Years
Of course then I am only a PE in NJ, maybe that is how they keep the LS numbers low?
Paul in PA
Convience Fee
I don't like it when the Licensing Agency charges a Convience fee, if you use a credit card. Here in Arkansas, they want you to renew online, but they hit you with a $2 plus convience fee for processing the credit card. If you renew online, they don't have to deposit your check, and enter it into the database that you have paid, but you do have to pay a little extra for the convience to them. If you really want to see them do some work, take your renewal by inperson, and pay with cash. The renewal fee is $60 for 2 years. Handing them a $100 bill would probably cause them all kinds of problems.:-)
Seems like the $125 for 2 years I paid for CA is a pretty good deal.
Everything is bigger in Texas
> Texas was $379 for one year.
Adding in the $129 cost of 8 hrs. of CEUs on top of the $379 was $499 for me. I don't mind paying $379 for license renewal if it will be used to fund BOR activities in investigation and enforcement. Unfortunately, in Texas it mostly just gets sucked into the general fund.
Convience Fee
You understand that the card company charges a 2%-3% fee on each transaction? You pay a "convenience fee" everywhere, its just masked by higher prices for everyone...
Everything is bigger in Texas
Your CEUs were about 60% of what mine at $225. That does not account for travel or stay overnight.
Just think, this year we will need 12hrs, the extra 4 being Ethics or Rules. In a couple of years they will ask for 16hrs.
This is also our first year of self accountability in recent times, hope that works out for the good.
Everything is bigger in Texas
> Your CEUs were about 60% of what mine at $225. That does not account for travel or stay overnight.
Oh, I always go for the on-line CEUs. They're the least expensive.
Kansas just announced that they are reducing the fees from $90 for two years down to $70 for two years due to the lousy economy. Of course, the expense for continuing education always goes up.
Everything is bigger in Texas
$465 gets one 20 CEU's (nearly all you need for the licensing period) at the NJ Surveyors Conference.
That includes free breakfasts and lunches each day, plus you're in Atlantic City, where at least there is something else to do.
The rooms are $99.00 a night, and the host hotel (Bally's) is better than most, and their staff does a great job running the event..
The cost of CEUs and an alternative ...
With all the stories told on this site makes one wonder why not submit some of this material to Surveying and Land Information Systems journal? When you publish (in a refereed journal), that is normally considered credit towards CEUs. Since you're already spending time posting on this site, consider expanding it and submitting it to the ACSM/NSPS. Another venue is your State Land Surveying Association's monthly/quarterly journal. Those things normally count for CEUs. Of course, each state will give varying credit, but I'll bet they all will give some credit.
Considering the volume of contributions on this website, there's several regular contributors that probably could save a tidy sum of money (spent on buying CEUs) by just organizing their thoughts into one significant body of work.
What are you trying to do ?
Give us a kinehora? Ssh folks for the BOR lurk here and they'll start to ge big ideas.
lol happy new year
What are you trying to do ?
> Give us a kinehora? Ssh folks for the BOR lurk here and they'll start to ge big ideas.
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> lol happy new year
I had to look up kinehora. For those others who may not know, it turns out to be Yiddish for "jinx".
Good one, Dane. Maybe I should go back and delete my previous post.
Convience Fee
Convenience? Conveyance? I assume in essence a procsssing fee.
Anyway, you see a problem when a government or a nonprofit is charging for something that doesn't include a profit. It will actually cost them to process a credit card. I went to get a fishing license one year at the bait shop at a lake. They said they had to charge extra unless I bought something else. it seems that they could sell the license, but they didn't make any money for it. If they didn't charge the processing costs, they would have to pay for it themselves.
