The GISjobs.com Salary Survey
USA - Technician
Respondents
Responses: 444
Avg Exp: 3.92 years
Avg Salary: $N/A
Male: 73%
Female: 27%
Education
AD: 8%
BA: 32%
BS: 42%
MA: 3%
MS: 8%
PhD: 0%
None: 5%
Other: 3%
AVG Salary
1 year exp: $36,167
2 years exp: $41,196
3 years exp: $43,850
4 years exp: $47,848
5 years exp: $47,153
6 years exp: $46,774
7 years exp: $46,475
8 years exp: $42,788
9 years exp: $57,500
10 years exp: $52,507
11 years exp: $47,500
12 years exp: $53,707
13 years exp: $58,233
14 years exp: $50,398
15 years exp: $53,000
16 years exp: $57,240
17 years exp: $84,000
20 years exp: $47,000
21 years exp: $60,329
Products Used
Linux: 3%
Macintosh: 11%
Novell: 1%
Unix: 1%
Windows: 71%
Miscellaneous
Access: 23%
C++: 2%
DB2: 0%
ER Mapper: 1%
ERDAS: 7%
GeoMedia: 0%
Google Earth Engine: 0%
Idrisi: 2%
InfoCAD: 0%
Java: 5%
Leica: 2%
MapInfo: 4%
MicroStation: 5%
MSSQL: 8%
Oracle: 5%
PostGIS / PostgreSQL: 0%
Smallworld: 3%
SQL Server: 0%
AutoDesk
AutoCAD: 20%
AutoCAD Civil: 7%
AutoCAD Map: 6%
Other AutoDesk: 2%
ESRI
ArcGIS: 75%
ArcGIS Field Maps: 0%
ArcGIS Insights: 0%
ArcGIS Online: 0%
ArcGIS Pro: 0%
ArcGIS StoryMaps: 0%
ArcPad: 11%
ArcView: 30%
Other ESRI: 24%
GPS
Bad Elf: 0%
DJI: 0%
Garmin: 19%
Other Drone: 0%
Other GPS: 13%
Pathfinder: 7%
Trimble: 33%
LIDAR
Other LIDAR: 9%
TerraMatch: 2%
TerraModeller: 1%
TerraPhoto: 1%
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%
