Surveyors Salary in Tucson, AZ

Surveyors pay range in Tucson

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $47,380 a year or less, while the top 10% make $96,010 or more. The middle half of surveyors in Tucson earn between $54,770 and $78,740.

*Hourly figures assume 2,080 paid hours a year.

Surveyors salary after taxes in Tucson

On the average salary of $70,970, a single filer in Tucson takes home about $57,377 a year, or $4,781 a month and $2,207 every two weeks. Taxes take 19% of gross pay.

Single filer, standard deduction: federal income tax (2026 brackets), Social Security, Medicare and state income tax (2026 rules).

Is Tucson a good place for surveyors? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the Tucson area are 3% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 96.9), so the average $70,970 buys what about $73,243 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 1.5 times the median wage of all jobs in Tucson ($47,760). A typical home costs $343,580, or 4.8 years of this average salary before tax.

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Surveyors salary in other Arizona cities

Tucson ranks 2nd of 3 Arizona metro areas for this job; Phoenix pays the most ($81,090).

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Highest-paying cities for surveyors

Yuba City, CA pays this job the most of the metro areas we cover ($127,690).

Surveyors salary by city

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• Architects, Except Landscape and Naval$96,780 a year
• Cartographers and Photogrammetrists$79,000 a year
• Landscape Architects$73,650 a year
• Computer Hardware Engineers$133,310 a year
• Mining and Geological Engineers, Including Mining Safety Engineers$124,680 a year
• Electrical Engineers$123,530 a year
• Aerospace Engineers$120,380 a year
• Electronics Engineers, Except Computer$116,290 a year

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