The GISjobs.com Salary Survey
USA-Virginia
Respondents
Responses: 190
Avg Exp: 8.30 years
Avg Salary: N/A
Male: 78%
Female: 22%
Education
AD: 3%
BA: 26%
BS: 39%
MA: 7%
MS: 18%
PhD: 3%
None: 2%
Other: 3%
AVG Salary
1 year exp: 37,981
2 years exp: 39,700
3 years exp: 44,059
4 years exp: 57,864
5 years exp: 55,913
6 years exp: 66,990
7 years exp: 66,750
8 years exp: 58,083
9 years exp: 75,750
10 years exp: 79,055
11 years exp: 75,250
12 years exp: 102,500
13 years exp: 118,000
14 years exp: 48,800
15 years exp: 75,270
16 years exp: 127,500
17 years exp: 68,500
18 years exp: 92,000
20 years exp: 78,000
21 years exp: 105,543
Products Used
Linux: 8%
Macintosh: 11%
Novell: 1%
Unix: 4%
Windows: 71%
Miscellaneous
Access: 22%
C++: 3%
DB2: 4%
ER Mapper: 2%
ERDAS: 15%
GeoMedia: 3%
Google Earth Engine: 0%
Idrisi: 1%
InfoCAD: 1%
Java: 6%
Leica: 3%
MapInfo: 5%
MicroStation: 3%
MSSQL: 17%
Oracle: 9%
PostGIS / PostgreSQL: 0%
Smallworld: 1%
SQL Server: 0%
AutoDesk
AutoCAD: 18%
AutoCAD Civil: 3%
AutoCAD Map: 8%
Other AutoDesk: 3%
ESRI
ArcGIS: 81%
ArcGIS Field Maps: 1%
ArcGIS Insights: 0%
ArcGIS Online: 0%
ArcGIS Pro: 1%
ArcGIS StoryMaps: 1%
ArcPad: 15%
ArcView: 36%
Other ESRI: 31%
GPS
Bad Elf: 0%
DJI: 0%
Garmin: 23%
Other Drone: 0%
Other GPS: 15%
Pathfinder: 8%
Trimble: 26%
LIDAR
Other LIDAR: 19%
TerraMatch: 2%
TerraModeller: 3%
TerraPhoto: 4%
TerraScan: 5%
OpenSource
GDAL / OGR: 0%
GeoServer: 0%
GRASS GIS: 0%
Leaflet: 0%
MapServer: 0%
OpenLayers: 0%
Other Open Source: 0%
PostGIS: 0%
QGIS: 0%
SAGA GIS: 0%
Photogrammetry
Agisoft Metashape: 0%
DJI Terra: 0%
DroneDeploy: 0%
Other Photogrammetry: 0%
Pix4D: 0%
Programming
ArcPy: 0%
GeoPandas: 0%
JavaScript: 0%
Other Programming: 0%
Python: 0%
R: 0%
SQL: 0%
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