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Surveyors

Also called Land surveyor, Licensed surveyor, Professional land surveyor, PLS, Boundary surveyor

In brief

In May 2025, BLS counted 50,830 US surveyors, with median pay of $75,440 a year. Of the BLS counts since 2003, the highest was 56,820, in May 2006. The earliest figure here is a Census count of 7,800 from 1880, not measured the same way as today's count. The last full technology era for surveyors: Robotic total station and CAD-integrated office workflow, 2010 to 2020. Robotic total stations completed the decades-long reduction in survey crew size: the two-person crew became one person on many boundary and construction stakeout surveys.

What the sources say

Official outlook

BLS projects employment to grow 5.8% from 2025 to 2035.

BLS Employment Projections 2025-35

AI exposure studies

Data as of BLS OEWS May 2025; BLS Employment Projections 2025-35. BLS publishes these counts as yearly survey snapshots and cautions against reading them as a precise trend. In May 2021 BLS changed how it estimates these counts (a model-based method using three years of survey data) and moved fully to the 2018 occupation codes, so part of a change across 2021 can come from the method rather than the work.

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@misc{futurehistory_17_1022, author = {{Future History}}, title = {Surveyors: jobs and pay since 1862}, year = {2026}, month = oct, howpublished = {\url{https://futurehistory.earth/timeline/17-1022}}, note = {Last updated 2026-10-11. Data as of BLS OEWS May 2025; BLS Employment Projections 2025-35}, }

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Known then as Land Surveyor / County Surveyor (colonial and early republic era)
Known then as Government Surveyor / Deputy Surveyor (Public Land Survey System era)
Known then as Surveyor / Civil Surveyor (Homestead Act and railroad era)
Known then as Surveyor / Registered Land Surveyor (early licensing era)
Known then as Land Surveyor / Professional Land Surveyor (PLS) (licensing consolidation era)
Known then as Surveyors (BLS SOC 17-1022 / Professional Land Surveyor)
Known today as Surveyors (BLS SOC 17-1022 / Professional Land Surveyor)
Projected to still be called Surveyors (BLS SOC 17-1022 / Professional Land Surveyor)
Data from the May 2025 survey
US Employment
51K
Est.

Stated in source: BLS OEWS

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Median Annual Wage
$75,440
Est.

≈ $73,506 in 2024 prices (derived by us, CPI-adjusted)

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Beat · 1748

George Washington begins surveying in the Virginia backcountry at age 16 as part of a party working for Lord Fairfax, who owns much of the Northern Neck land grant. He is paid in surveying fees and obtains his first land. Appointed County Surveyor of Culpeper County, Virginia at 17, the youngest county surveyor in colonial America. Between 1748 and 1752 he completes approximately 200 surveys covering 60,000 acres. He will later own more than 65,000 acres across 37 locations, much of it acquired through the networks and knowledge he built as a surveyor. The surveyor as landholder was the standard model of the era: fees were often paid in land, and the surveyor who saw parcels first could claim the best ones.

Beat · 1785

Thomas Jefferson's Land Ordinance of 1785 establishes the Public Land Survey System: land ceded to the United States under the 1783 Treaty of Paris would be divided into 6-mile-square townships, each subdivided into 36 sections of 640 acres. This is the origin of the grid pattern visible from aircraft over the American Midwest and West, where county lines run at right angles because the survey system imposed them. Congress appoints one surveyor per state to begin the work; they start from the western end of the Mason-Dixon Line, at a point where the Ohio River meets the Pennsylvania border. Surveyors are paid $2 per surveyed mile. Over the following century, 1.5 billion acres are surveyed into townships and sections under this system.

Beat · 1833

Abraham Lincoln teaches himself surveying in six weeks using geometry and trigonometry texts, earns $2.50 per quarter-section surveyed, and divides at least five new Illinois towns into lots for speculators. His surveying work provides the networking connections that launch his political career in Illinois. Lincoln's self-taught entry into the profession was typical of the era: licensing did not exist, and the threshold was self-study and a willing client. The contrast with the modern PLS credential, which requires a four-year degree and several years of supervised experience before examination, marks how completely the profession transformed over 150 years.

Beat · 1862

The Homestead Act of 1862, signed by Lincoln, permits citizens to claim 160 acres of public land by living on and improving it for five years. The Act dramatically accelerated demand for surveyors: every claim required a legal description traced back to the PLSS township-and-range grid, and contested claims required boundary resurveys. The Great Plains survey that followed the Homestead Act was the largest single coordinated land survey in human history by area.

Beat · 1891

California enacts the first surveyor licensing law in the United States on March 31, 1891, establishing a state board and requiring examination before practice. The licensing movement was driven by decades of conflicting surveys, fraudulent plats, and the realization that an unlicensed practitioner with a chain and compass had no accountability for errors that could cloud title for generations. State after state followed California's model through the early 20th century; by the 1960s all 50 states required licensure. The California law was the beginning of the modern professional surveyor, who practices under statute, carries liability insurance, and can be disciplined or lose a license for negligent boundary work.

Beat · 2000

President Clinton removes GPS Selective Availability on May 1, 2000, improving civilian GPS accuracy from approximately 100 meters to approximately 5 meters instantaneously. For surveyors who had been using differential GPS correction techniques to work around the degraded signal, the change was less transformative than for the general public -- RTK GPS at centimeter accuracy had already been achievable with base stations. But the removal accelerated adoption of GPS-based survey workflows by removing the complexity of differential correction for non-RTK applications, and it opened GPS-based navigation and GIS data collection to a much broader range of survey technicians and field workers.

Beat · 2025

The NSPS 2025 AI Position Statement, the profession's first formal policy statement on artificial intelligence, affirms that AI tools "augment surveyors but cannot perform the professional judgment required for boundary resolution and legal testimony." The statement specifically addresses drone photogrammetry, LLM-assisted deed research, and AI point-cloud segmentation as legitimate tools that improve surveyor productivity, while drawing a clear line at the boundary resolution opinion: that determination requires a licensed human professional and cannot be delegated to any AI system. The statement represents the profession's public-facing answer to the recurring question of whether AI will displace surveyors, and it reflects a settled consensus within the field that the legal product -- the sealed plat and the professional boundary opinion -- is not automatable because its value derives from human legal accountability.

How to read this number

OEWS is a point-in-time survey snapshot, not a continuous time series; BLS advises against using it for year-over-year trend comparison.

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Cited forecasts · present → 2035

Will AI replace surveyors? What the research says

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What published forecasts say
Forecast change in the number of people doing this work, as published by each named source. Bars share one scale on every role, centred on zero and reaching the end at ±30%. Grey marks a small change, 3% or less either way.
BLS Employment Projections 2025-35
→ 2035
+5.8%
BLS National Employment Matrix, 2025-35 cycle, line for SOC 17-1022 (Surveyors): 52.0 thousand jobs in 2025, projected 55.0 thousand in 2035, a change of +3.0 thousand (+5.8%). Matrix employment counts all jobs in the occupation, including self-employed workers (2.1% of this occupation in 2025). The average for all occupations in this cycle is +3.5%.
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How exposed is this work to AI (research measures)
Scores as published by each study. Each row says what it measures. These measure what AI could technically do, not forecasts of jobs lost.
Eloundou et al. (2023), "GPTs are GPTs"
2023 study · Share of tasks exposed to LLMs (β, human-rated)
43.3%
of tasks
What this measures

Published occupation-level exposure from the paper's occ_level.csv for O*NET-SOC 17-1022.00 Surveyors. Shown: human-rated β = 0.433, the share of the occupation's tasks an LLM could do in at least half the time at equal quality, counting tasks that need LLM-powered software at half weight (β = E1 + 0.5 × E2). Other published measures for this occupation: human-rated α (LLM alone) 0.133 and γ (all LLM-assisted) 0.733; GPT-4-rated β 0.489. This measures how much of the work an LLM could touch, not how many jobs disappear.

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Today, in this role

What's changing day to day for surveyors

Three parts of your work where AI is already doing real lifting, and what stays yours.

AI is sitting alongside you herePlan and execute aerial topographic surveys using AI-autonomous drones (Skydio X10 or DJI Matrice 350 RTK): configure AI flight planning for site coverage and ground control point optimization

Plan and execute aerial topographic surveys using AI-autonomous drones (Skydio X10 or DJI Matrice 350 RTK): configure AI flight planning for site coverage and ground control point optimization; deploy FAA Part 107 compliant flight; process imagery in Esri Site Scan for ArcGIS or Trimble Business Center to generate georeferenced orthomosaics, digital elevation models, and point clouds; verify horizontal and vertical accuracy against ground control points and deliver GIS-ready topographic deliverables.[6],[7],[2]

Where your edge is

Drone topography is high-exposure to automation: flight execution, imagery processing, and deliverable generation are increasingly algorithmic. The surveyor's irreplaceable contribution is site-specific ground control point placement, RTK GNSS network solution QA, and accuracy certification: the professional judgment that the orthomosaic and DEM meet the stated accuracy standard and are fit for the intended use (ALTA survey, subdivision design, FEMA floodplain analysis). Develop deep fluency in accuracy verification methodology: checkpoint residuals, RMSE analysis, and the National Standard for Spatial Data Accuracy (NSSDA) reporting format for your state's survey board requirements.

AI is sitting alongside you herePrepare boundary survey plats and legal descriptions using Trimble Business Center or AutoCAD Civil 3D: import field data and computed boundary geometry

Prepare boundary survey plats and legal descriptions using Trimble Business Center or AutoCAD Civil 3D: import field data and computed boundary geometry; generate COGO-based plat draft with lot lines, easements, and monument symbols; use ChatGPT with deed-call templates to draft metes-and-bounds legal descriptions from computed traverse data; QA AI-generated description language against the computed geometry for internal consistency; finalize plat with notes, signature blocks, and title commitment requirements; submit sealed plat to recording authority.[5],[1]

Where your edge is

AI-generated metes-and-bounds descriptions consistently make systematic errors: incorrect bearing quadrant notation for your state convention, missing closure language required by the recording county, failing to reference the correct easement document numbers, and producing descriptions that close mathematically but reference monuments in the wrong order. Build a prompt library with your state-specific plat requirements and county recording standards, and always run the AI-generated description through a COGO closure check before presenting it to the PLS for seal. One bad legal description that gets into a deed creates title problems that resurface in every subsequent transaction.

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AI is sitting alongside you hereConduct terrestrial 3D laser scanning surveys for as-built documentation, infrastructure mapping, and complex boundary reconstruction: deploy FARO Focus or RIEGL scanner at strategically placed scan stations

Conduct terrestrial 3D laser scanning surveys for as-built documentation, infrastructure mapping, and complex boundary reconstruction: deploy FARO Focus or RIEGL scanner at strategically placed scan stations; use FARO Scene LT AI-assisted target recognition and automatic scene registration to align scan stations; process registered point cloud in Trimble Business Center using AI segmentation to classify terrain, buildings, vegetation, and infrastructure; extract survey measurements, cross-sections, and as-built geometry for CAD deliverables.[9],[5],[1]

Where your edge is

AI scene registration and point-cloud classification dramatically reduce processing time but require an experienced surveyor to catch classification errors, particularly in complex urban scans where AI tools confuse building overhangs with ground, misclassify underground utility covers as terrain, or fail to separate closely spaced infrastructure elements. Always perform a manual QA pass on AI-classified deliverables before sealing: check cross-section profiles at key locations against field measurements, verify that corner monuments are correctly identified in the point cloud, and confirm that utility surface features match the SUE vacuum excavation data if available.

Where surveyors go next

Natural next steps for someone with your foundation: not exits, evolutions.

What each move takes

A direction you could grow

Construction Managers

Surveyors with substantial construction stakeout experience develop a deep understanding of construction sequencing, contractor coordination, and design-to-field gap management that directly maps onto construction management responsibilities. The transition is well-traveled at mid-size survey and engineering firms, where senior surveyors move into project manager and construction manager roles on infrastructure and land development projects. Construction managers who understand survey fundamentals can more effectively manage design-survey-construction coordination, catching site conflicts before they generate change orders. The CRI delta is positive because construction managers carry higher human-advantage scores from client relationship management, contractor negotiation, and schedule/budget accountability that are deeply resistant to AI substitution. The transition requires developing project financial management, contract administration, and people leadership skills beyond the technical project coordination that surveyors already practice.

What you'd add
  • · Project financial management: earned-value analysis, construction cost forecasting, change order evaluation, and lien waiver administration
  • · Construction contract administration: AIA A201 general conditions, subcontract management, RFI and submittal workflows
  • · Construction scheduling: Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project, CPM scheduling, and schedule impact analysis for delay claims
  • · Construction Management at Risk and Design-Build delivery: preconstruction services, GMP negotiation, and design phase management
  • · CCM certification pathway: CMAA Certified Construction Manager exam preparation and 48-month experience documentation
What it takesSome new skills to pick up
Tools of the era

How has the work of surveyors changed since 1748?

The tools that defined the work, one line per era. Select an era to see how it reshaped the work.

  • Gunter's chain and surveyor's compass (colonial to Gilded Age)

    Edmund Gunter introduced his iron chain in England in 1620; it was standard in American colonial surveying by the mid-18th century. The surveyor's compass, measuring magnetic bearings, and the chain, measuring horizontal distance, formed the complete toolkit for every survey Washington, Lincoln, and the thousands of government surveyors who subdivided the continent performed. A bearing and a distance was a line; a closed traverse of bearings and distances defined a parcel. The system worked wherever the magnetic compass was reliable and wherever a two-person crew could stretch and count a chain across the ground. It did not work in dense forest, in rough terrain, or wherever the compass was disturbed by local magnetic variation, and those limitations produced the disputed boundaries and overlapping claims that kept 19th-century land lawyers in business.

    Effect on the work

    Chain-and-compass surveying required a minimum crew of two (instrument man and chain carrier), often three or four for dense vegetation. The physical limitation of the chain defined the entire economics of the 19th-century survey: more crew, more miles per day, more parcels per season, more income.

  • Engineer's transit and steel tape (precision measurement era)

    The surveyor's transit, a precision optical instrument that measured both horizontal and vertical angles with a micrometer eyepiece reading to seconds of arc, replaced the magnetic compass as the primary angle-measurement tool during the late 19th century. The steel tape replaced the iron chain by the 1890s: more accurate, easier to correct for temperature and sag. The transit also introduced a new skill requirement: careful leveling, zenith angle measurement, and trigonometric reduction that required mathematical training the chain carrier did not need.

    Effect on the work

    The transit did not reduce crew size; if anything it added to it. A transit survey crew typically comprised an instrument operator, a rodman (holding a leveling rod or prism pole at target points), and a note keeper or chainman. Three-person crews were standard on government and commercial surveys through the mid-20th century.

  • Professional licensing (California 1891, nationwide by 1970)

    California enacted the nation's first surveyor licensing law in 1891, establishing a board to regulate the profession and require examination before practice. The licensing movement spread state by state through the first half of the 20th century, driven by the profession's recognition that the magnetic compass era's casual practice had produced decades of conflicting surveys and costly litigation. By the 1960s all states required licensure to perform boundary surveys. The PLS credential created a structural moat: the boundary opinion is not just any professional judgment, it is a legally privileged act that exposes the surveyor to professional liability for errors affecting property rights, easements, and encroachments. No instrument, however sophisticated, can substitute for that licensed act.

    Effect on the work

    Licensing contracted the labor supply available for boundary survey work by setting education and examination requirements. It also elevated the profession's wages relative to the broader technical workforce and created the long-term structural condition -- a licensed scarcity -- that continues to protect surveyor employment against full substitution by AI-assisted tools.

  • Electronic distance measurement (EDM, 1960s-80s)

    The electronic distance meter, which used microwave or infrared signals to measure distance to a prism at a remote point with very high accuracy, arrived in commercial form in the 1960s. Geodimeter instruments from AGA of Sweden and Tellurometer instruments from South Africa were the first commercial EDMs. By the early 1970s EDMs were standard on large-scale control surveys; by the late 1970s they were reaching smaller firms. Distance measurement that had previously required stretching a steel tape over rough terrain now required line-of-sight to a prism reflector: a fundamentally different workflow. The EDM also enabled much longer sight distances than a tape could span, opening up large-area topographic and control surveys that the tape could not economically perform.

    Effect on the work

    EDM reduced the labor required for distance measurement dramatically: a two-person crew (instrument operator and prism holder) could measure distances with EDM that previously required multiple tape-stretching setups by a crew. This began the long trend of crew-size reduction per survey project that GPS and robotic total stations would continue.

  • Total station (combined EDM and electronic theodolite, from c. 1980)

    Hewlett-Packard introduced the HP 3820A electronic total station around 1980, popularizing the combination of angle measurement, distance measurement, and on-board computing in a single instrument. Carl Zeiss's Elta 46 electronic tacheometer (1968) was an earlier precursor; the Geodimeter 400 from Geotronics AB was another pioneer. By the mid-1980s total stations from Leica, Topcon, Sokkia, and Trimble were standard equipment in US survey firms. The total station automated the data-reduction workflow that had previously required manual field-book trigonometry: the instrument computed coordinates in real time, storing them in a data collector for download to office software. The reduction in calculation errors alone was significant; the ability to close a traverse in the field before leaving the site was transformative.

    Effect on the work

    Total stations cut surveying times compared to separate theodolite-and-tape or theodolite-and-EDM workflows, according to industry analysis. The three-person crew became a two-person crew as the note-keeper function was absorbed by the data collector.

  • GPS and RTK-GNSS (real-time kinematic positioning, from 1995)

    The GPS constellation reached full operational capability in 1995, and the removal of Selective Availability (the intentional civilian signal degradation) by President Clinton on May 1, 2000, sharpened civilian GPS accuracy dramatically at the flip of a switch. Real-Time Kinematic GPS (RTK), which used a fixed base station transmitting corrections to a rover receiver in real time, had already been achieving centimeter-level accuracy since the early 1990s; after 2000, RTK became practical for routine survey work without the need for post-processing or specially calibrated base stations. GPS/RTK eliminated the requirement for continuous line-of-sight between survey points: a surveyor could now occupy any open-sky point and obtain its position in seconds at survey-grade accuracy, without running a traverse from a known point.

    Effect on the work

    RTK GPS reduced survey crew sizes further: the single-person roving receiver replaced the instrument-and-prism workflow for control establishment and topographic surveys in open terrain. Crew sizes dropped to two persons -- one operating the rover, one driving and managing equipment -- and on many topographic surveys to one licensed surveyor working alone. Boundary surveys in wooded terrain retained the traditional instrument and prism setup because GPS degrades under canopy.

  • Robotic total station and CAD-integrated office workflow

    Robotic total stations, which track the reflector prism automatically and can be operated remotely by the single person holding the prism, made true one-person boundary survey fieldwork routine for the first time. Topcon's GT Series, Trimble's SX12, and Leica's TS16 all provided this capability by the mid-2010s. The instrument operator held the prism, moved to each point, and the robot tracked and measured automatically, eliminating the need for a second crew member at the instrument. Simultaneously, CAD-integrated office software (Trimble Business Center, Topcon Magnet Office) automated the data-reduction workflow from field data to draft plat, further reducing office hours per project.

    Effect on the work

    Robotic total stations completed the decades-long reduction in survey crew size: the two-person crew became one person on many boundary and construction stakeout surveys. Survey firms that previously employed two field workers per licensed surveyor now operated with one. Industry analysis noted that this eliminated the entry-level rodman position that had traditionally been the training pathway into the profession, contributing to the talent pipeline problem that now leaves the industry facing a severe workforce shortage.

  • Drone photogrammetry and AI point-cloud processing (from 2015)

    The FAA's 2015 creation of commercial drone regulations (Part 107, implemented 2016) opened drone photogrammetry to routine survey use. By 2018-2020, survey-grade drones from Trimble (UX5, later fixed-wing platforms), DJI (Phantom 4 RTK, Matrice 350 RTK), and Skydio (X10, 2024) were standard tools for open-site topographic surveys. AI-assisted photogrammetric processing (Agisoft Metashape, Pix4D, Esri Site Scan for ArcGIS) converted drone imagery to georeferenced orthomosaics, digital elevation models, and 3D point clouds with minimal manual processing. Trimble Business Center 6.x added AI point-cloud segmentation that automatically classified terrain, vegetation, buildings, and infrastructure elements from lidar scans, collapsing post-processing from days to hours. On open sites, drone topographic surveys that once required a field crew for a few days can now be completed by one licensed surveyor with a drone in half a day.

    Effect on the work

    Drone photogrammetry has not displaced licensed surveyors from topographic survey work but has dramatically compressed the labor hours per project. The NSPS 2025 AI position statement confirms that the boundary resolution opinion -- the licensed product -- remains exclusively the surveyor's professional act; AI and drone tools automate the data-collection and processing half of the workflow, not the legal half. Survey firms report that the licensed surveyor can now manage more projects simultaneously, but the entry-level field technician position has nearly disappeared, sharpening the workforce pipeline crisis.

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Surveyors employment and pay by year

On record since1748
Latest US employment50,830 (May 2025)Source: BLS OEWS May 2025Official statisticReport an error
Latest US median pay$75,440 (May 2025)Source: BLS OEWS May 2025Official statisticReport an error
Outlook+5.8% by 2035Source: BLS Employment Projections 2025-35Official statisticReport an error

In other countries

The latest figure each country's statistics agency publishes for this job. Each uses its own occupation definition, survey basis and currency, so the numbers are not directly comparable with each other or with the US figures.

  • Canada (NOC 21203)

    Employment, 2020
    7,210, Statistics Canada Census 2021 Official statistic Report an errorStatistics Canada Census of Population 2021: number of persons with employment income in NOC 21203 Land surveyors, Canada, reference year 2020. A recipients basis (anyone with employment income during the year), slightly broader than a point-in-time employed count. Statistics Canada Open Licence.
    Median pay, 2020
    C$76,500, Statistics Canada Census 2021 Official statistic Report an errorStatistics Canada Census of Population 2021 (Table 98-10-0586): median employment income for NOC 21203 Land surveyors, Canada, reference year 2020, full-year full-time workers (the basis comparable to the US OEWS full-time median). Statistics Canada Open Licence.
View all 29 years of cited US data, each linked to its source
YearUS employmentAnnual pay (median unless marked)SourceReport
1862n/a$520Est., Three Surveyors and Another Guy Researched contextReport
18807,800n/aDecennial Census 1880 Researched contextReport
190011,500n/aDecennial Census 1900 Researched contextReport
195042,000$3,800Decennial Census 1950 Researched contextReport
198562,000$28,500Est., Bureau of Labor Statistics / FRASER (employment) Researched contextEst., University of Missouri Libraries (pay) Researched contextReport
200052,750$36,700BLS OEWS 2000 Official statisticReport
200351,490$40,860BLS OEWS May 2003 Official statisticReport
200452,680$42,980BLS OEWS May 2004 Official statisticReport
200554,220$45,860BLS OEWS May 2005 Official statisticReport
200656,820$48,290BLS OEWS May 2006 Official statisticReport
200756,670$51,630BLS OEWS May 2007 Official statisticReport
200855,780$52,980BLS OEWS May 2008 Official statisticReport
200950,360$54,180BLS OEWS May 2009 Official statisticReport
201043,950$54,880BLS OEWS May 2010 Official statisticReport
201142,020$55,590BLS OEWS May 2011 Official statisticReport
201240,190$56,230BLS OEWS May 2012 Official statisticReport
201341,360$56,590BLS OEWS May 2013 Official statisticReport
201441,970$57,050BLS OEWS May 2014 Official statisticReport
201543,140$58,020BLS OEWS May 2015 Official statisticReport
201643,340$59,390BLS OEWS May 2016 Official statisticReport
201743,430$61,140BLS OEWS May 2017 Official statisticReport
201845,310$62,580BLS OEWS May 2018 Official statisticReport
201945,220$63,420BLS OEWS May 2019 Official statisticReport
202043,710$65,590BLS OEWS May 2020 Official statisticReport
202146,390$61,600BLS OEWS May 2021 Official statisticReport
202247,770$63,080BLS OEWS May 2022 Official statisticReport
202350,740$68,540BLS OEWS May 2023 Official statisticReport
202453,080$72,740BLS OEWS May 2024 Official statisticReport
202550,830$75,440BLS OEWS May 2025 Official statisticReport
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