Not to be too intrusive
I was wondering what hourly pay is ranging for survey technicians is in your areas? My wages have risen fairly steadily even through the recession but being as I've only been a part of two companies, i have no frame of reference.
Party Chief is around $17 to $25/hour here in rural PA.
The other guy on the crew is naturally paid less than that...$16-$20ish
My son is surveying in Norman, OK and is making much better money than his old man is in Portland right now. It seems the job market for survey help is much stronger in OK than it is in Oregon.
I'm getting 12.50, friend at a larger company is getting 16 an hour.
$8.50. $15.00, $22.50
Depends which one of those your skills compare with the best.
Survey Tech is a broad term. What can you do?
Before you go chasing the bigger bucks, don't forget to take into account the cost of living in other areas. Those bigger bucks may not go near as far as you would hope.
I talked a guy into moving from Arizona to my area. His base salary was less here, but his cost of living here is about 1/2 of what he was looking at in his old jobs in California and Arizona. He has earned a nice pay raise since then and says he is now "living large". (He's single, so he gets to keep all the money that Uncle Sam does not take.)
