Chartered Surveyors

**Chartered**
**surveyors***:
**Description**:
Chartered surveyors conduct surveys related to the measurement, management, valuation and development of land, natural resources, buildings, other types of property, and infrastructure such as harbours, roads and railway lines.

**Tasks**: surveys, measures and describes land surfaces to establish property boundaries and to aid with construction or cartographic work surveys mines, prepares drawings of surfaces, hazards and other features to control the extent and direction of mining surveys buildings to determine necessary alterations and repairs measures shore lines, elevations and underwater contours, establishes high and low water marks, plots shore features and defines navigable channels.
- **Educational Requirements**:
Entrants usually possess an accredited degree, equivalent qualification and/or postgraduate qualification. Entrants must also have successfully completed a probationary training period and professional assessment. Entry requirements to professional bodies vary.

**Salaries
***:
Salaries for this career can range between **£26,520** and **£36,400** depending on skills and experience.

**Employment
***:
There are currently **6,200** employed Chartered surveyors in the region.