What is a Land Surveyor B?
Steve Gilbert, post: 434788, member: 111 wrote: What is a Land Surveyor B?
http://www.dpor.virginia.gov/uploadedFiles/MainSite/Content/Boards/APELS/LS%20LSB%20Photog%20CIB.pdf
The Land Surveyor B examination is an eight-hour multiple-choice examination with a morning and an afternoon session. The morning session consists of 50 questions and the afternoon session consists of 50 questions. An individual must be licensed as a Virginia Surveyor in order to take this examination. An overall scaled score of 70 must be achieved in order to pass the examination for licensure. This is an open book exam.
The content outline is as follows:
1. Erosion Control
2. Storm Drainage Systems
3. Land Planning and Design
4. Sanitary Sewer
5. Water Line Extensions
6. Federal/State/Local Standards
Rankin_File, post: 434753, member: 101 wrote: [Sarcasm]Most elk are bigger than you.[/sarcasm]
Small elk are people, too.
I don't care if you're an Elk or an Eagle or a Moose or an Odd Fellow, I support your support of your community and the world around you.
James Fleming, post: 434770, member: 136 wrote: Okay...of the 29 years I've been surveying I've worked in one of three counties in Maryland for 27 of them (Montgomery, Frederick, and Washington), so my experience is limited in that regard.
That said, here is a question for the room. Throw out doctors and high end attorneys, do you see a perceptiable difference in standard of living between licensed surveyors and other professions/quasi-professions that require a similar amount of educational background. I'm talking engineers, architects, CPAs, teachers, social workers, foresters, urban planners, etc. Because I don't see one here. Surveyors here tend to live in the same neighborhoods, drive the same cars, send their kids to the same schools, take similar vacations, etc. as these other professionals.
As for salary/rates charged, I've been at four multidisciplinary firms where I've been high enough in management to be privy to fee and salary information. In none of these cases were surveyors who held similar titles (project surveyor/engineer, project manager, associate) payed any less than engineers, planners, landscape architects. At everyplace I've worked since I've been licensed, surveyors have billed at the same rates as PEs, and some places have billed out surveyors at a higher hourly rate than landscape architects.
Is it really that different elsewhere and I just landed, by sheer luck, in the surveyor land of milk and honey?
Also, FWIW, adoring to the ABA journal, a licensed surveyor in my county can easily make a salary that exceeds the median salary of attorneys.
http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/search_wage_data_for_your_county
Yes. You are in the land of milk and honey and it is everything surveying should be for every person wanting to get into this profession. My buddies up around you give a similar account, and they keep asking but they're not gonna get me up there.
FTR, the shortage we are going to have might drive our worth up anyway. I'm not talking merely pay scale, but not being afraid to stick up for yourself not only in fee but in our worth to society. We have extreme lowballing and lack of self worth problems in many areas of the country.
