Surveyors Salary in Charlottesville, VA

Surveyors pay range in Charlottesville

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $54,770 a year or less, while the top 10% make $127,460 or more. The middle half of surveyors in Charlottesville earn between $58,090 and $81,010.

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

Surveyors salary after taxes in Charlottesville

On the average salary of $75,780, a single filer in Charlottesville takes home about $58,598 a year, or $4,883 a month and $2,254 every two weeks. Taxes take 23% of gross pay.

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

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

Prices in the Charlottesville area are in line with the U.S. average (BEA price parity 99.1), so the average $75,780 buys what about $76,433 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 1.2 times the median wage of all jobs in Charlottesville ($55,180). A typical home costs $473,058, or 6.2 years of this average salary before tax.

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Surveyors salary in other Virginia cities

Charlottesville ranks 2nd of 3 Virginia metro areas for this job; Richmond pays the most ($79,720).

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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$97,220 a year
• Engineers, All Other$151,940 a year
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• Electrical Engineers$129,920 a year
• Computer Hardware Engineers$122,310 a year
• Electronics Engineers, Except Computer$119,560 a year
• Mechanical Engineers$113,400 a year
• Industrial Engineers$107,300 a year

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