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Engineering & Architecture · Updated Aug 2026

Surveyors

Make exact measurements and determine property boundaries. Provide data relevant to the shape, contour, gravitation, location, elevation, or dimension of land or land features on or near the earth's surface for engineering, mapmaking, mining, land evaluation, construction, and other purposes.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
AI Exposure
73/100
High

How much of this occupation’s work can be materially affected by current AI systems.

Replacement Risk
53/100
Moderate

How likely exposure is to translate into reduced human demand.

Includes provisional estimates for AI adoption pressure and labour-market resilience. How this is measured

Evidence quality
Confidence84/100
Task coverage88%

Confidence reflects task coverage, mapping and capability-evidence quality, and how much of the score rests on provisional inputs.

Task-level evidence

What is driving the score?

Occupation scores are built from the task mix—not a single prediction about a job title.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
TaskImportanceAI impactExposure
Direct or conduct surveys to establish legal boundaries for properties, based on legal deeds and titles.High
75
Prepare and maintain sketches, maps, reports, and legal descriptions of surveys to describe, certify, and assume liability for work performed.High
75
Record the results of surveys, including the shape, contour, location, elevation, and dimensions of land or land features.High
73
Compute geodetic measurements and interpret survey data to determine positions, shapes, and elevations of geomorphic and topographic features.High
73
Prepare, or supervise preparation of, all data, charts, plots, maps, records, and documents related to surveys.High
72
Search legal records, survey records, and land titles to obtain information about property boundaries in areas to be surveyed.High
74
Verify the accuracy of survey data, including measurements and calculations conducted at survey sites.High
70
Calculate heights, depths, relative positions, property lines, and other characteristics of terrain.High
72
Establish fixed points for use in making maps, using geodetic and engineering instruments.High
73
Write descriptions of property boundary surveys for use in deeds, leases, or other legal documents.High
74
Determine longitudes and latitudes of important features and boundaries in survey areas, using theodolites, transits, levels, and satellite-based global positioning systems (GPS).High
71
Train assistants and helpers, and direct their work in such activities as performing surveys or drafting maps.High
73
Analyze survey objectives and specifications to prepare survey proposals or to direct others in survey proposal preparation.High
72
Plan and conduct ground surveys designed to establish baselines, elevations, and other geodetic measurements.High
72
Coordinate findings with the work of engineering and architectural personnel, clients, and others concerned with projects.High
63
Most exposed

Where AI can do more

Routine, digitized, and highly repeatable tasks face the greatest pressure.

  1. Direct or conduct surveys to establish legal boundaries for properties, based on legal deeds and titles.75
  2. Prepare and maintain sketches, maps, reports, and legal descriptions of surveys to describe, certify, and assume liability for work performed.75
  3. Search legal records, survey records, and land titles to obtain information about property boundaries in areas to be surveyed.74
  4. Write descriptions of property boundary surveys for use in deeds, leases, or other legal documents.74
Hardest to automate

Where people still matter

These tasks score lowest on automation feasibility—physical presence, judgement, accountability and real-world variability all resist end-to-end automation.

  1. Record the results of surveys, including the shape, contour, location, elevation, and dimensions of land or land features.01
  2. Compute geodetic measurements and interpret survey data to determine positions, shapes, and elevations of geomorphic and topographic features.02
  3. Prepare, or supervise preparation of, all data, charts, plots, maps, records, and documents related to surveys.03
  4. Verify the accuracy of survey data, including measurements and calculations conducted at survey sites.04
  5. Calculate heights, depths, relative positions, property lines, and other characteristics of terrain.05
Where else this work leads

Related occupations

Occupations O*NET links to this one. Relatedness reflects shared work, not a claim that these roles are safer.

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Beyond AI capability

Adoption and labour-market outlook

Structural factors are kept separate from raw capability so you can see what actually resists automation. Adoption pressure and labour-market resilience are still provisional models—25% of this occupation’s replacement-risk weight rests on them.

Human dependency74
Physical dependency61
Adoption pressure66
Labour-market resilience68
Methodology & sources

O*NET 30.3 occupational data interpreted through the JobsVsAI capability, automation and structural-constraint models.

Confidence84/100
CalculatedAug 21, 2026
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