11f – gis salaries in 2010-11

William Huxhold, GISP

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Survey completed in 2010

1,022 usable responses

From:

URISA Salary Survey for IT/GIS Professionals,

November 2011

Urban and Regional Information Systems Association

www.urisa.org

GIS employees in respondent organization:

Average = 48 employees

(61 in 2006)

Median = 7 employees

(8 in 2006)

GIS MANAGER – 21.7% GIS COORDINATOR – 16.7%

GIS SPECIALIST – 13.9% GIS DATA ANALYST – 13.0%

GIS TECHNICIAN – 8.1% GIS SYSTEM SOFTWARE ANALYST – 5.6%

GIO/DIRECTOR OF GIS – 4.0% OTHER – 4.0%

GIS USER (Heavy) –3.5% EDUCATOR – 1.9%

CONSULTANT – 1.5% STUDENT – 1.1 %

Other IT Titles – 4.7%

ESRI 70%+ Windows XP 76.0% (Macintosh 2.1%)

Access 72.5% Excel 75.1% SQL Server 49.9% Visual Basic 43.5% Python 40.8% (24.0% in 2006)

ArcGIS 9.x 71.7%

ArcGis 10.x 66.8%

SDE/GeoDatabase 44.6%

Extensions 43.6%

ArcGIS Server 38.7%

AutoDesk AutoCAD 18.3

Open Source 9.7

ERDAS Imagine 9.6

Other 9.3

Bentley MicroStation 5.2

Oracle Spatial 4.8

MapInfo Professional 4.6

ERDAS 3.5

Intergraph GeoMedia 3.5

Smallworld GIS 1.2

Caliper Maptitude 0.7

MapInfo Mapextreme 0.5

Caliper TransCADD 0.4

Intergraph MGE 0.4

Project Management 73.7% Technical Support 73.4% Teaching/Training 60.7% Research 60.2% Report Writing 57.1% Public Speaking 56.8%

West East

California 29 Massachusetts 42

Montana 27 New York 12

Midwest South

Ohio 45 Florida 99

North Dakota 41 Georgia 75

Wisconsin 41 North Carolina 41

Illinois 22 Texas 14

GIO/DIRECTOR OF GIS $82,656 ($82,031 in 2006)

GIS MANAGER $69,842 ($67,302 in 2006)

GIS COORDINATOR $57,849 ($57,633 in 2006)

GIS SPECIALIST $53,538 ($52,315 in 2006)

GIS ANALYST/PROGR. $64,872 ($59,063 in 2006)

GIS DATA ANALYST $52,526 ($50,242 in 2006)

GIS TECHNICIAN $39,630 ($37,782 in 2006)

GIS USER (Heavy) $57,000 ($51,436 in 2006)

CONSULTANT $81,818 ($96,785 in 2006)

Municipal Government $61,711 (up 4.0%)

County Government $56,607 (up 2.5%)

State Agency $60,942 (up 8.2%)

Regional Agency $52,500 (down 13.7%)

Federal Agency $66,875 (down 5.9%)

Private Sector $65,675 (up 0.7%)

Public Utility $67,652 (up 21.5%)

GIS Experience – 10.8 years Average Age – 40.8 years MS or Higher Degree – 39.4% Geography Degree – 43.7% GIS Degree – 36.9% GISP – 34.9% Average Salary - $61,540 (2.5% over 2006)

◦ Average with GISP: $68,954

◦ Average without GISP: $56,062