Career Overview
Plans and designs land areas for such projects as parks and other recreational facilities; airports; highways; hospitals; schools; land subdivisions; and commercial, industrial and residential sites.
Skills and Abilities
- Designing and arranging objects
- Designing structures and land use
- Drafting drawings for buildings and equipment
- Explaining diagrams
- Giving advice on building plans and projects
- Operating computers to lay out designs and colors
- Planning project activities
AVERAGE SALARY
- $75,780 (annually)
- $39.82(hourly)
Salary Ranges (entry level > experienced)
- $26.82 - $55.29 (hourly)
- $55,780 - $115,000 (annual)
*SOURCE: Occupational Employment Statistics Program, US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, for Colorado, from May 2018. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
* Entry Level wage rates based on the average of the lower 1/3 of the wage distribution. Experienced wage rates based on the average of the top 10% of the wage distribution.
VIDEO SOURCE: careeronestop.org by the U.S. Department of Labor
