SIC 8713 | NAICS 541360 & 541370
The following guide to industry information, research, and analysis provides sources for industry trends and statistics, financial ratios, salary surveys, and more.
Comprehensive research reports provide in-depth industry analysis and five-year growth forecasts, with special focus on the underlying structure and external forces and relationships that affect industries and their performance. Topics addressed in the reports include:
Monthly magazine features news and information for the surveyors and other industry professionals, with special features including the "Salary and Benefits Study" (June issue) which provides average surveyor salaries by type of business and the "POB Top 100 Geospatial Companies" special report which lists the top firms in the industry based on land surveying, mapping, and geospatial revenues.
Monthly journal features news and information for land surveyors and geo-technology professionals, with online news sections including business, measurement and positioning, equipment, hardware, software, space/GPS/GNSS, remote sensing and photogrammetry, LiDAR/laser scanning, GIS, cartography, and models, and trade events and education. Digital editions are available free online.
Monthly trade publication features news and information for precision measurement, positioning, and imaging professionals, with special features including the annual "Outlook" edition which looks ahead at innovative trends, technologies, and applications that are expected to have a significant impact on surveying and geospatial services over the next ten years. Digital editions can be viewed free online.
Surveying & Mapping Services
https://www.thebusinessresearchcompany.com/
Market research report provides a detailed analysis of this service sector on a global basis, with data
provided in the report including historical and forecast revenue in U.S. dollars by type of service
(e.g., aerial photo, cadastral, gravimetric, land, non-geophysical mining, and non-geophysical hydrographic
and oceanographic surveys; map preparation services) and global region (e.g., North America, U.S.).
Geophysical Services
https://www.thebusinessresearchcompany.com/
Comprehensive study provides in-depth analysis of the geophysical services market on a global basis,
with information provided in the study including historical and forecast revenue by type of service
(e.g., geological, electromagnetic and electrical, aerial, magnetic, seismic, gravity, oil and gas,
metal mining, and nonmetallic minerals surveys), geographic region, and for selected countries (e.g.,
United States).
Five-year financial statement analysis includes income statements, balance sheets, and key financial ratios, with data available by sales size range on a national, state, and metro area level including:
Financial benchmarking section of these reports provides an analysis of industry profit and expenses as a percentage of revenue for firms that provide geospatial processing services, cadastral, property line, and boundary surveys, topographical and planimetric surveys and maps, subdivision layout and design services, construction surveys and maps, and geophysical mineral and engineering surveys.
Annual salary survey provides average salaries for surveyors by type of business (e.g., survey firms, civil engineering/survey firms) and also includes a percentage breakdown of respondent salaries by salary range (e.g., under $30,000, $30,000-$99,999 in $10,000 increments, and $100,000 or more). Survey is published in the June issue of POB magazine and is available free online with registration.
Annual wage survey provides hourly and annual wage data on a national, state, and metro area basis for surveyors who determine property boundaries and provide relevant data with regard to the earth's surface and subsurface for engineering, mapping, and construction projects, survey technicians who assist them, and mapmakers who use surveys and other data to create and update maps and charts.
Land / Geophysical Surveying
https://www.payscale.com/land
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geophysical
Free online service provides salary, bonus, and hourly wage rate data for selected job positions in
this sector such as land surveyor, survey party chief, survey technician, and geophysicist, with employers
for which salary or hourly wage rate data is provided including
Land Surveying, Inc., ESP Associates, P.A., Enviro Clean Products & Services, Surveying And Mapping,
LLC, and CGGVeritas Services SA.
Geospatial Mapping Services
https://www.payscale.com/
Free online service provides median salary, bonus, and hourly wage data for selected job positions in
this sector such as geospatial analyst, GIS analyst, GIS technician,
software developer, and software engineer, with employers for which median compensation is provided
including Quantum Spatial Inc., DigitalGlobe Inc., MDA Information Systems LLC, and Environmental Systems
Research Institute Inc.
Interactive database provides detailed transaction data for over 38,000 private and public companies sold for prices ranging from under $250,000 to over $500,000,000, with valuation measures provided including market value of invested capital as a multiple of revenue, gross profit, EBIT, EBITDA, SDE, and book value of invested capital. User guide, free webinar, and sample reports are available online.