Civil Drafters
Training and Education
| Fast Facts* | |
|---|---|
| Recommended Degree Level | Associate |
| Salary, Typical | $47,870 |
| Salary Range | |
| Number of Jobs, 2012 | 83,410 |
| Annual Job Growth Rate | 2.2% |
| Job Openings per Year (est.) | 2,090 |
Having a postsecondary vocational award may make it easier to find a job. Employees with a bachelor's degree or higher are 25% of the total. About 62% of civil drafters have some college education, but do not have a degree. High school was all the education required by 13% of workers to get a job.
Part-Time Work and Self-Employment
Government survey data shows that 6% of employees work fewer than 40 hours per week. Some 5% of civil drafters work primarily as a consultant.
See typical salaries and ranges for this career below*. Shift click to sort by more than one column -- for example first shift-click on state and then shift-click on salary to find best and worst salaries in each state.
Salaries by City
State City / Region Typical Salary Salary Range Job Count % of All Jobs AK Anchorage $52,200 210 0.12% AK Fairbanks $45,970 40 0.10% AL Birmingham - Hoover $44,710 400 0.08% AL Decatur $48,030 30 0.06% AL Dothan $39,720 50 0.09% AL Florence - Muscle Shoals $41,020 40 0.08% AL Huntsville $40,660 60 0.03% AL Mobile $52,620 150 0.09% AL Montgomery $44,450 80 0.05% AL Tuscaloosa $44,520 50 0.06% AR Fayetteville - Springdale - Rogers $44,390 170 0.08% AR Fort Smith $37,150 50 0.04% AR Little Rock - North Little Rock - Conway $44,020 220 0.06% AZ Phoenix - Mesa - Glendale $49,130 1,200 0.07% AZ Tucson $45,460 340 0.10% CA Bakersfield - Delano $47,850 170 0.06% CA Chico $46,260 60 0.09% CA Fresno $49,070 280 0.09% CA Los Angeles - Long Beach - Glendale (Metro Area) $56,350 2,550 0.07% CA Modesto $48,860 90 0.06% CA Oakland - Fremont - Hayward (Metro Area) $60,550 910 0.09% CA Oxnard - Thousand Oaks - Ventura $51,420 150 0.05% CA Redding $50,940 40 0.06% CA Riverside - San Bernardino - Ontario $54,690 610 0.05% CA Sacramento - Arden - Arcade - Roseville $52,760 680 0.08% CA San Diego - Carlsbad - San Marcos $51,420 1,430 0.11% CA San Francisco - San Mateo - Redwood City (Metro Area) $62,990 1,460 0.15% CA San Jose - Sunnyvale - Santa Clara $58,280 600 0.07% CA San Luis Obispo - Paso Robles $51,000 90 0.09% CA Santa Ana - Anaheim - Irvine (Metro Area) $56,740 1,880 0.13% CA Santa Barbara - Santa Maria - Goleta $50,290 190 0.11% CA Santa Cruz - Watsonville $55,030 40 0.04% CA Santa Rosa - Petaluma $58,450 110 0.06% CA Stockton $41,060 80 0.04% CA Visalia - Porterville $43,390 80 0.06% CO Boulder $45,680 150 0.09% CO Colorado Springs $47,290 140 0.06% CO Denver - Aurora - Broomfield $51,770 670 0.05% CO Fort Collins - Loveland $46,780 110 0.08% CT Bridgeport - Stamford - Norwalk $53,860 170 0.04% CT Hartford - West Hartford - East Hartford $56,690 250 0.05% CT New Haven $54,890 180 0.07% CT Norwich - New London $54,110 40 0.03% DC Washington - Arlington - Alexandria (Metro Area) $58,530 1,270 0.05% DE Dover $53,050 40 0.07% DE Wilmington (Metro Area) $46,520 170 0.05% FL Cape Coral - Fort Myers $46,380 180 0.09% FL Deltona - Daytona Beach - Ormond Beach $45,580 100 0.06% FL Fort Lauderdale - Pompano Beach - Deerfield Beach (Metro Area) $48,330 490 0.07% FL Gainesville $47,860 90 0.07% FL Jacksonville $42,130 510 0.09% FL Lakeland - Winter Haven $42,230 110 0.06% FL Miami - Miami Beach - Kendall (Metro Area) $45,740 960 0.10% FL Naples - Marco Island $43,250 110 0.09% FL North Port - Bradenton - Sarasota $42,600 110 0.05% FL Ocala $36,090 60 0.07% FL Orlando - Kissimmee - Sanford $47,930 1,040 0.10% FL Palm Bay - Melbourne - Titusville $35,210 170 0.09% FL Panama City - Lynn Haven - Panama City Beach $46,050 110 0.16% FL Pensacola - Ferry Pass - Brent $43,360 200 0.13% FL Port St. Lucie $39,660 40 0.03% FL Sebastian - Vero Beach $52,100 40 0.10% FL Tallahassee $42,670 110 0.07% FL Tampa - St. Petersburg - Clearwater $45,700 650 0.06% FL West Palm Beach - Boca Raton - Boynton Beach (Metro Area) $44,480 400 0.08% GA Albany $55,250 30 0.05% GA Atlanta - Sandy Springs - Marietta $51,490 1,280 0.06% GA Augusta - Richmond County $44,310 160 0.08% GA Brunswick $49,780 60 0.15% GA Columbus $46,860 70 0.07% GA Macon $42,720 40 0.04% GA Savannah $49,030 90 0.06% GA Valdosta $38,170 30 0.07% HI Honolulu $47,740 410 0.09% IA Ames $39,930 40 0.11% IA Cedar Rapids $48,290 70 0.05% IA Davenport - Moline - Rock Island $42,670 80 0.05% IA Des Moines - West Des Moines $49,390 210 0.06% IA Dubuque $42,620 40 0.07% IA Iowa City $48,560 60 0.07% IA Waterloo - Cedar Falls $35,950 30 0.04% ID Boise City - Nampa $48,650 240 0.09% ID Coeur d'Alene, ID $42,790 70 0.14% ID Idaho Falls $44,260 70 0.14% IL Chicago - Joliet - Naperville (Metro Area) $44,400 2,020 0.06% IL Decatur $44,070 40 0.08% IL Lake County - Kenosha County (Metro Area) $50,100 200 0.05% IL Peoria $46,240 160 0.09% IL Rockford $41,390 40 0.03% IL Springfield $56,540 60 0.05% IN Bloomington $52,860 30 0.04% IN Elkhart - Goshen $38,370 40 0.04% IN Evansville $54,210 80 0.04% IN Fort Wayne $41,490 130 0.07% IN Gary (Metro Area) $53,720 120 0.04% IN Indianapolis - Carmel $50,220 510 0.06% IN South Bend - Mishawaka $41,050 70 0.06% KS Manhattan $34,480 40 0.08% KS Topeka $47,210 80 0.08% KS Wichita $44,590 230 0.08% KY Lexington - Fayette $52,350 170 0.07% KY Louisville - Jefferson County $45,910 300 0.05% LA Alexandria $47,840 40 0.06% LA Baton Rouge $55,190 500 0.14% LA Lafayette $53,610 60 0.04% LA Lake Charles $44,570 80 0.09% LA Monroe $44,440 60 0.08% LA New Orleans - Metairie - Kenner $48,180 480 0.09% LA Shreveport - Bossier City $48,580 30 0.02% MA Barnstable Town $57,190 60 0.06% MA Boston - Cambridge - Quincy (Metro Area) $54,060 1,500 0.09% MA Framingham (Metro Area) $53,010 70 0.05% MA Lowell - Billerica - Chelmsford (Metro Area) $48,810 30 0.03% MA Peabody (Metro Area) $46,570 50 0.05% MA Springfield $44,690 170 0.06% MA Worcester $49,450 50 0.02% MD Baltimore - Towson $54,080 490 0.04% MD Bethesda - Rockville - Frederick (Metro Area) $46,030 330 0.06% MD Hagerstown - Martinsburg $38,890 30 0.03% MD Salisbury $49,110 50 0.11% ME Portland - South Portland - Biddeford $52,260 200 0.10% MI Ann Arbor $45,070 50 0.03% MI Detroit - Livonia - Dearborn (Metro Area) $52,530 350 0.05% MI Flint N/A 40 0.03% MI Grand Rapids - Wyoming $49,180 250 0.06% MI Holland - Grand Haven $37,030 60 0.06% MI Kalamazoo - Portage $45,530 60 0.05% MI Lansing - East Lansing $44,690 60 0.03% MI Muskegon - Norton Shores $43,220 30 0.05% MI Niles - Benton Harbor $35,470 N/A N/A MI Saginaw - Saginaw Township North $41,680 40 0.05% MI Warren - Troy - Farmington Hills (Metro Area) $49,910 720 0.07% MN Duluth $46,090 60 0.05% MN Mankato - North Mankato $45,460 30 0.06% MN Minneapolis - St. Paul - Bloomington $49,630 1,180 0.07% MN Rochester $46,990 40 0.04% MN St. Cloud $37,480 30 0.03% MO Columbia $40,210 40 0.05% MO Jefferson City $41,650 60 0.09% MO Kansas City $45,110 670 0.07% MO Springfield $41,390 110 0.06% MO St. Louis $45,410 710 0.06% MS Gulfport - Biloxi $42,810 90 0.09% MS Jackson $44,880 70 0.03% MS Pascagoula $52,230 50 0.09% MT Billings $42,470 140 0.17% MT Great Falls $43,880 40 0.10% MT Missoula $40,470 70 0.12% NC Asheville $42,670 40 0.03% NC Charlotte - Gastonia - Rock Hill $52,260 960 0.11% NC Durham - Chapel Hill $47,860 130 0.05% NC Fayetteville $44,220 N/A N/A NC Greensboro - High Point $45,310 140 0.04% NC Hickory - Lenoir - Morganton $37,980 40 0.03% NC Raleigh - Cary $45,120 510 0.10% NC Rocky Mount $37,760 30 0.06% NC Wilmington $47,080 80 0.06% NC Winston - Salem $41,570 80 0.04% ND Bismarck $43,280 60 0.08% ND Fargo $42,560 130 0.11% ND Grand Forks $44,530 40 0.07% NE Lincoln $44,400 130 0.08% NE Omaha - Council Bluffs $45,680 260 0.06% NH Manchester $53,350 60 0.06% NH Nashua (Metro Area) $51,620 50 0.04% NH Portsmouth $48,850 50 0.09% NJ Atlantic City - Hammonton $42,470 70 0.05% NJ Camden (Metro Area) $59,980 230 0.05% NJ Edison - New Brunswick (Metro Area) $46,660 540 0.06% NJ Newark - Union (Metro Area) $50,390 540 0.06% NJ Trenton - Ewing $53,900 100 0.05% NJ Vineland - Millville - Bridgeton $40,030 50 0.08% NM Albuquerque $45,110 400 0.11% NM Santa Fe $55,410 40 0.08% NV Las Vegas - Paradise $53,920 330 0.04% NV Reno - Sparks $54,410 100 0.05% NY Albany - Schenectady - Troy $47,770 300 0.07% NY Buffalo - Niagara Falls $41,870 310 0.06% NY Glens Falls $44,300 60 0.12% NY Ithaca $43,710 N/A N/A NY Kingston $75,100 N/A N/A NY Nassau - Suffolk (Metro Area) $49,070 830 0.07% NY New York - White Plains - Wayne (Metro Area) $55,680 3,370 0.07% NY Poughkeepsie - Newburgh - Middletown $45,760 150 0.06% NY Rochester $39,120 220 0.05% NY Syracuse $45,570 200 0.07% OH Akron $41,790 300 0.10% OH Canton - Massillon $42,300 70 0.04% OH Cincinnati - Middletown $44,470 930 0.09% OH Cleveland - Elyria - Mentor $45,540 290 0.03% OH Columbus $48,590 610 0.07% OH Dayton $46,250 170 0.05% OH Toledo $42,830 180 0.06% OH Youngstown - Warren - Boardman $43,360 80 0.04% OK Oklahoma City $47,890 490 0.08% OK Tulsa $51,110 370 0.09% OR Bend $46,830 60 0.09% OR Corvallis $44,350 40 0.12% OR Eugene - Springfield $42,770 N/A N/A OR Portland - Vancouver - Hillsboro $48,130 840 0.08% OR Salem $46,270 100 0.07% PA Allentown - Bethlehem - Easton $46,720 190 0.06% PA Altoona $42,480 40 0.06% PA Erie $41,210 50 0.04% PA Harrisburg - Carlisle $43,810 250 0.08% PA Johnstown $40,280 40 0.06% PA Lancaster $45,990 250 0.11% PA Lebanon $41,290 30 0.07% PA Philadelphia (Metro Area) $45,910 1,330 0.07% PA Pittsburgh $45,900 1,150 0.10% PA Reading $45,940 110 0.07% PA Scranton - Wilkes - Barre $43,850 140 0.06% PA State College $36,480 60 0.09% PA Williamsport $44,200 40 0.07% PA York - Hanover $46,330 130 0.07% PR Ponce $24,840 50 0.10% PR San Juan - Caguas - Guaynabo $26,060 400 0.05% RI Providence - Fall River - Warwick $55,200 250 0.05% SC Charleston - North Charleston - Summerville $39,210 230 0.08% SC Columbia $50,230 150 0.04% SC Greenville - Mauldin - Easley $43,500 180 0.06% SC Myrtle Beach - North Myrtle Beach - Conway $49,190 50 0.04% SC Spartanburg $49,670 N/A N/A SD Rapid City $38,770 60 0.10% SD Sioux Falls $37,540 110 0.08% TN Chattanooga $48,640 160 0.07% TN Jackson $46,230 40 0.07% TN Johnson City $45,810 50 0.06% TN Kingsport - Bristol - Bristol $38,470 N/A N/A TN Knoxville $43,710 310 0.09% TN Memphis $48,300 240 0.04% TN Nashville - Davidson - Murfreesboro - Franklin $46,690 540 0.07% TX Abilene $35,780 50 0.08% TX Amarillo $40,010 50 0.04% TX Austin - Round Rock - San Marcos $47,090 1,100 0.14% TX Beaumont - Port Arthur $46,780 240 0.15% TX Brownsville - Harlingen $29,210 50 0.04% TX College Station - Bryan $31,320 170 0.18% TX Corpus Christi $39,000 150 0.08% TX Dallas - Plano - Irving (Metro Area) $51,290 1,630 0.08% TX El Paso $32,660 130 0.05% TX Fort Worth - Arlington (Metro Area) $53,650 730 0.08% TX Houston - Sugar Land - Baytown $45,140 3,010 0.11% TX Killeen - Temple - Fort Hood $39,010 70 0.06% TX Laredo $30,010 50 0.05% TX Longview $43,100 50 0.05% TX Lubbock $35,030 100 0.08% TX McAllen - Edinburg - Mission $35,700 120 0.05% TX Midland $45,760 100 0.13% TX San Antonio - New Braunfels $45,840 660 0.08% TX Tyler $38,700 70 0.08% TX Waco $38,420 50 0.05% TX Wichita Falls $39,440 N/A N/A UT Logan $48,430 N/A N/A UT Ogden - Clearfield $48,360 160 0.08% UT Provo - Orem $43,630 160 0.09% UT Salt Lake City $44,900 910 0.15% UT St. George $36,760 30 0.07% VA Charlottesville $45,640 60 0.06% VA Lynchburg $40,910 40 0.05% VA Richmond $44,040 220 0.04% VA Roanoke $36,930 60 0.04% VA Virginia Beach - Norfolk - Newport News $42,900 220 0.03% VT Burlington - South Burlington $41,610 70 0.06% WA Bellingham $49,690 40 0.06% WA Bremerton - Silverdale $48,750 130 0.17% WA Kennewick - Pasco - Richland $55,260 90 0.09% WA Olympia $44,810 50 0.06% WA Seattle - Bellevue - Everett (Metro Area) $60,360 790 0.06% WA Spokane $40,740 150 0.08% WA Tacoma (Metro Area) $63,270 110 0.04% WI Appleton $47,010 50 0.04% WI Eau Claire $36,150 60 0.08% WI Green Bay $45,160 110 0.07% WI La Crosse $41,580 50 0.08% WI Madison $47,390 140 0.04% WI Milwaukee - Waukesha - West Allis $47,650 350 0.04% WI Oshkosh - Neenah $47,410 40 0.05% WI Sheboygan $52,640 30 0.06% WI Wausau $38,020 30 0.05% WV Charleston $41,380 110 0.07% WV Huntington - Ashland $45,450 70 0.07% WV Morgantown $43,750 30 0.05% WV Wheeling $44,800 30 0.05% WY Casper $48,440 40 0.09% WY Cheyenne $45,750 60 0.14%
Area Job Conditions
Cities with few jobs per capita for employees are South Bend (Indiana), Springfield (Massachusetts), and Detroit (Michigan). The most jobs are found in Santa Barbara (California), Sebastian (Florida), and Kennewick (Washington).
Within the US, the highest salaries for civil drafters are found in Kennewick (Washington), San Jose (California), and Santa Barbara (California), and the lowest are found in College Station (Texas), Waco (Texas), and Brownsville (Texas).