The GISjobs.com Salary Survey
USA
Respondents
Responses: 4,249
Avg Exp: 7.62 years
Avg Salary: $N/A
Male: 74%
Female: 26%
Education
AD: 5%
BA: 23%
BS: 36%
MA: 8%
MS: 20%
PhD: 2%
None: 3%
Other: 3%
By State
Alabama (70)
Alaska (26)
Arizona (106)
Arkansas (33)
California (445)
Colorado (212)
Connecticut (18)
Delaware (11)
Florida (243)
Georgia (134)
Hawaii (13)
Idaho (25)
Illinois (124)
Indiana (29)
Iowa (41)
Kansas (31)
Kentucky (65)
Louisiana (56)
Maine (13)
Maryland (114)
Massachusetts (82)
Michigan (92)
Minnesota (85)
Mississippi (34)
Missouri (94)
Montana (27)
Nebraska (20)
Nevada (28)
New Hampshire (24)
New Jersey (66)
New Mexico (30)
New York (120)
North Carolina (165)
North Dakota (9)
Ohio (131)
Oklahoma (51)
Oregon (78)
Pennsylvania (159)
Rhode Island (3)
South Carolina (73)
South Dakota (22)
Tennessee (72)
Texas (418)
Utah (50)
Vermont (13)
Virginia (189)
Washington (121)
Washington DC (43)
West Virginia (19)
Wisconsin (98)
Wyoming (24)
Products Used
Linux: 7%
Macintosh: 11%
Novell: 1%
Unix: 3%
Windows: 77%
Miscellaneous
Access: 26%
C++: 4%
DB2: 1%
ER Mapper: 2%
ERDAS: 10%
GeoMedia: 3%
Google Earth Engine: 0%
Idrisi: 2%
InfoCAD: 2%
Java: 8%
Leica: 3%
MapInfo: 6%
MicroStation: 4%
MSSQL: 19%
Oracle: 10%
PostGIS / PostgreSQL: 0%
Smallworld: 2%
SQL Server: 0%
AutoDesk
AutoCAD: 19%
AutoCAD Civil: 6%
AutoCAD Map: 7%
Other AutoDesk: 3%
ESRI
ArcGIS: 80%
ArcGIS Field Maps: 0%
ArcGIS Insights: 0%
ArcGIS Online: 0%
ArcGIS Pro: 0%
ArcGIS StoryMaps: 0%
ArcPad: 12%
ArcView: 33%
Other ESRI: 37%
GPS
Bad Elf: 0%
DJI: 0%
Garmin: 23%
Other Drone: 0%
Other GPS: 16%
Pathfinder: 10%
Trimble: 31%
LIDAR
Other LIDAR: 16%
TerraMatch: 2%
TerraModeller: 2%
TerraPhoto: 2%
TerraScan: 3%
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%
By Job Title
AMFM (5)
Analyst (977)
Applications Developer (65)
CAD (24)
Cartography (115)
Consultant (76)
Contract & Freelance (15)
Database (34)
Developer (50)
Education (74)
Engineering (68)
Entry Level (181)
Executive (15)
Forestry (21)
Geography (138)
Geology (25)
Geospatial (478)
GIS Director (1)
Government (130)
Hydrology (15)
Information Technology (89)
Intern (53)
Land Use (15)
Manager (313)
Other (40)
Photogrammetry (3)
Planning (55)
Programming (16)
Project Manager (119)
Real Estate (18)
Remote Sensing (42)
Research (35)
Sales & Marketing (17)
Science (17)
Software Development (25)
Specialist (306)
Student (67)
Support (8)
Surveying (32)
Technician (443)
Training (6)
Transportation (11)
Web & Internet (12)