City of Charlotte / Charlotte Water Field Operations / Survey Technician
Job-title file
Operate, maintain, and repair equipment or facilities, performing skilled hands-on work.
25 employees hold this title in Charlotte Water Field Operations. Median total compensation for the role is $53,310, below the department median of $61,069.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 25 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC area, the median wage for Surveying and Mapping Technicians — about 1,120 people — is $58,480. Charlotte Water Field Operations pays a median base salary of $53,310 for this role, 9% below that figure — about the 39th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Surveying and Mapping Technicians across every employer in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Charlotte Water Field Operations’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Surveying and Mapping Technicians — about 58,010 people — is $54,240. Charlotte Water Field Operations’s median base salary is 2% below that national figure, about the 47th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC range relative to the national one.
Median total compensation for this role at Charlotte Water Field Operations is $53,310, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.
Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.
Compare departments
Survey Technician is held in 3 City of Charlotte departments. In Charlotte Water Field Operations, the median of $53,310 ranks #3 of 3.
Median total compensation for the Survey Technician role in other City of Charlottedepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 4 jurisdictions. In City of Charlotte, the median of $55,827 ranks #2 of 4. See Survey Technician across all of City of Charlotte →
Median total compensation for comparable Survey Technicianroles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.
Record list
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Survey Technician/Charlotte Water Field Operations
Source-specific fields
Christopher Crowell works as a Survey Technician for Charlotte Water Field Operations within Cltwt. Their status is full-time. Christopher earned $66,955 in 2026.
Survey Technician/Charlotte Water Field Operations
Source-specific fields
Ronald Durham holds the role of Survey Technician at Charlotte Water Field Operations within Cltwt. Their status is full-time. In 2026, their total compensation was $65,936.