Surveyors Salary in Springfield, IL

Surveyors pay range in Springfield

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $50,410 a year or less, while the top 10% make $127,810 or more. The middle half of surveyors in Springfield earn between $61,770 and $110,390.

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

Surveyors salary after taxes in Springfield

On the average salary of $87,290, a single filer in Springfield takes home about $66,059 a year, or $5,505 a month and $2,541 every two weeks. Taxes take 24% of gross pay.

Single filer, standard deduction: federal income tax (2026 brackets), Social Security, Medicare and state income tax (2025 rules).

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

Prices in the Springfield area are 7% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 92.7), so the average $87,290 buys what about $94,118 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 1.5 times the median wage of all jobs in Springfield ($52,670). A typical home costs $200,409, or 2.3 years of this average salary before tax.

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Surveyors salary in other Illinois cities

Springfield ranks 1st of 3 Illinois metro areas for this job, the best-paid in the state.

All Surveyors salaries in Illinois

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$100,640 a year
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• Electrical Engineers$103,480 a year
• Environmental Engineers$98,040 a year
• Industrial Engineers$96,440 a year
• Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians$83,680 a year
• Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians$79,820 a year

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