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Trouble finding help…appropriate salary range/expectations
Mark Mayer replied 3 years, 2 months ago 30 Members · 77 Replies
I’m guessing the Construction part weighs heavily….and if you admit to having Autocad they’ll chain you to the desk after you return from the field, and make you an exempt non-OT slave to the company. SOunds great! Save me a spot please!!!!
@jitterboogie not only construction, but highway construction. at night. the guy hunts those jobs down for the fee differential. plus i think he’s a vampire.
I think salery is also area dependent. You cannot expect one to make more in San Francisco than say death valley…
You could look up the County Surveyors salery in your particular county as that is public information.
Hmmmmmmm………. bacon……
except for the National Society of Professional Surveyors successfully lobbied to have surveyors exempt from Federal Davis Bacon requirements. WHICH PISSES ME OFF MASSIVELY.
That is a good way to gage a salery vs skillset.
True. Esp because some high school drop out schleb pushing a hot asphalt rake can clear 2000 dollars a week on a summer repaving interstate highway gig
Leave it to Surveyors to lobby the government for lower wages, tell me again why it is hard to find good help.
well said
If it is a PW job in WA, L&I doesnt care one bit what the feds say. You must pay everyone…even licensed professionals as a surveyor.
Strangely, last time I looked, the guidance said that construction surveyor crews are not exempt, but they also do not have a rate for them. They are either Mechanics or Laborers.
-All thoughts my own, except my typos and when I am wrong.There are rates there, but no PLS rate. Everybody at “Journey” level makes the same. With PW, the chainman on the field crew ends up making more than the PLS in charge of the operation back at the office does.
I’m not a big fan of PW in general. I am a big fan of collecting PW paychecks. NSPS shouldn’t be lobbying against PW. Leave that to others. NSPS should be lobbying to make PW conform better to how surveyors do business.
@norman-oklahoma
can’t see your reply to my link… I think I was trying to edit my first link at the same time..
@mark-mayer
can’t see norman okie’s reply… I think I was editing link at the same time.
I’m not sure what happened….. I ..uh, Norman…made a comment about Prevailing Wage to the effect that he doesn’t really like the idea, but sure doesn’t mind cashing the paychecks. Same with unions – and as you know he has now joined the dark side.
It seems obvious to me that the NSPS should not be lobbying against PW. There are plenty of other groups to carry that flag. They should be lobbying to make the PW system better conform to the realities of how most surveyors do business.
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