Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians Salary

The median civil engineering technologists and technicians salary in the United States is $64,950 per year ($31.23/hour). Salaries range from $44,220 at the entry level to $98,980+ for the top 10% of earners. There are 68,520 civil engineering technologists and technicians jobs nationwide. Employment is projected to grow 2.1% through 2034.

Last updated: June 2026 Β· Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Median Salary
$64,950
per year
Hourly Rate
$31.23
per hour
Employment
68,520
jobs in the U.S.

Salary Distribution

10th percentile
$44,220
25th percentile
$51,490
Median
$64,950
75th percentile
$80,650
90th percentile
$98,980

Job Growth (2024-2034)

+2.1%
As fast as average

Annual Openings

5,500
jobs/year (growth + replacements)

Education Required

Associate's degree

Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians Career Guide

Interview questions, resume templates, and a career ladder written specifically for civil engineering technologists and technicianss.

Civil engineering technologists and technicians (BLS SOC 17-3022) are the field-and-CAD workhorses on infrastructure projects β€” highways, bridges, water and wastewater, land development, transit, airports, and municipal capital work. Typical seats: Engineering Technician at a state DOT (Caltrans, TxDOT, FDOT, PennDOT, NYSDOT, ODOT); Civil / Site Designer at a consulting engineering firm (AECOM, Jacobs, Kimley-Horn, WSP, Stantec, HDR, HNTB, Kiewit Engineering, Michael Baker International, Burns & McDonnell, Parsons); Municipal Engineering Technician at a city or county public works department; Field Engineering Technician / Party Chief on a survey crew. BLS reports 68,520 employed with a median of $64,950, p10 $39,830, p90 $101,540. Entry Engineering Technician I / II $42-58k; established Sr Engineering Technician / Civil Designer $60-88k; Sr Designer / Project Technician / CAD Manager $82-115k; established Design Supervisor / Sr Project Technician / Construction Manager $105-155k+. The single biggest earnings lever is completing an ABET-accredited associate degree, moving from a DOT technician track into a consulting-firm Civil Designer seat using Civil 3D + InRoads + MicroStation, and then either pursuing a bachelor's for the PE track or specializing (drainage, roadway, transit, water/wastewater) as a career designer.

Core Skills Hiring Managers Screen For

Civil 3D + MicroStation + InRoads + OpenRoads Designer (Bentley)
Autodesk Civil 3D is the consulting-firm and municipal standard for roadway, grading, drainage, and site design. MicroStation + InRoads / OpenRoads Designer is the DOT standard at most state agencies (Caltrans, TxDOT, FDOT, NYSDOT). Fluency in both stacks is the single biggest force-multiplier β€” technicians who can move between Autodesk and Bentley shops command a 12-20% premium and get first pick of projects.
AutoCAD + drafting standards (NCS, agency CADD manuals)
National CAD Standard layer conventions, DOT-specific CADD manuals (Caltrans CADD User's Manual, TxDOT CAD Standards, FDOT CADD Manual), sheet setup, xref management, plot styles. Every DOT and municipality has its own CADD standard β€” a technician who lands at TxDOT reads and applies the TxDOT CAD Standards from day one; getting sheets to plot correctly on the first submittal separates a Designer from a junior Drafter.
Roadway geometric design (AASHTO Green Book) + horizontal/vertical alignment
AASHTO Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets (Green Book) is the design bible β€” sight distance, superelevation, vertical curve K-values, stopping and passing sight distance, horizontal curve radii, cross-section elements. Civil technicians build alignments in Civil 3D or OpenRoads Designer that conform to the applicable AASHTO / DOT design criteria; a PE stamps the design, but the technician builds and QCs it.
Drainage design + hydraulics (HEC-RAS, HydroCAD, StormCAD, PondPack)
Storm sewer sizing, culvert hydraulics, detention pond design, floodplain modeling. HEC-RAS 1D and 2D for open-channel and floodplain hydraulics (FEMA-standard for LOMR/CLOMR submittals); HydroCAD or StormCAD for storm sewer design; PondPack for detention pond routing. Municipal MS4 (Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System) compliance under NPDES Phase II adds SWPPP (Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan) drafting to the technician workflow.
Land surveying + total station + GPS + drone photogrammetry
Total station operation (Leica, Trimble, Topcon), RTK GPS survey (Trimble R12/R10, Leica GS18), drone photogrammetry (DJI Matrice, Pix4D, Propeller Aero). Party chief responsibility on a 2-3 person survey crew; existing conditions surveys; construction staking; as-built surveys. NSPS-recognized survey technician track (Certified Survey Technician Level I-IV) supports the survey-heavy career path β€” this is where DOT and municipal techs frequently start.
Construction inspection + materials testing (ACI, NICET, WAQTC)
NICET Highway Construction Inspection (Level I-IV) β€” the national standard for DOT construction inspection technicians; ACI Concrete Field Testing Technician (Grade 1) for concrete inspection; WAQTC (Western Alliance for Quality Transportation Construction) Aggregate + Asphalt + Concrete + Embankment / Base for materials testing in western DOTs. Field inspection technicians earn 8-15% shift/hazard differential over office designers and often move faster into supervisor roles.
Plan reading + quantity takeoff + construction cost estimating
Read and quantify from PS&E (Plans, Specifications, and Estimates) packages β€” earthwork quantities from cross-sections, pavement quantities from typical sections, drainage from plan-and-profile, structures from bridge plans. RSMeans or agency-specific unit price books for estimating; Bluebeam Revu + PlanSwift + Trimble AccuBid for takeoff. Estimating fluency opens the door to construction-management and pre-construction Estimator career tracks that pay 15-25% above design technician equivalent.
GIS + spatial data (Esri ArcGIS Pro, QGIS, ArcMap)
ArcGIS Pro for spatial analysis, right-of-way mapping, utility inventory, floodplain overlay, environmental constraint mapping (wetlands, endangered species habitat, cultural resources). Increasingly required at municipal public works departments and land-development consulting firms; overlaps with the GIS Analyst adjacent career track.

How to Become a Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians

  1. 1
    Complete an ABET-accredited associate degree in civil engineering technology (CET) or a related technology program
    ABET-accredited AAS in Civil Engineering Technology, Construction Technology, or Surveying Technology from a community or technical college. Programs typically 60-72 credit hours over 2 years; core coursework in AutoCAD, Civil 3D, surveying, materials, statics, hydraulics, and construction methods. ABET accreditation is required for the ABET-track Certified Engineering Technician (CET) credential and preferred at most state DOT and consulting-firm hires.
  2. 2
    Start as Engineering Technician I / II at a state DOT, county / municipal public works, or consulting firm at $42-58k
    First seat is typically drafting-heavy β€” production of plan sheets under a Sr Designer or PE. State DOTs (Caltrans, TxDOT, FDOT, PennDOT, NYSDOT, ODOT, WSDOT) run the largest structured technician career ladders with clear promotion criteria and public-sector benefits. Consulting firms (Kimley-Horn, HDR, Kiewit Engineering, Michael Baker, WSP, Stantec) pay 8-15% more but with less structured promotion.
  3. 3
    Pass the NICET Level I certification in your specialty (Highway Construction Inspection, Highway Design, Underground Utilities, or Water & Wastewater)
    NICET (National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies) β€” the national standard for civil engineering technician credentialing. NICET Level I demonstrates entry-level competency; Levels II-IV require documented work experience and progressively more complex exams. Many state DOTs and consulting firms tie promotion / pay-band advancement to NICET level; NICET IV Highway Construction Inspection is the industry benchmark for a Sr Field Technician / Chief Inspector seat.
  4. 4
    Log 3-5 years and move into a Civil Designer / Sr Engineering Technician role at $60-88k
    Second promotion. Ownership of design production on discrete project elements (a corridor segment, a storm sewer network, an intersection improvement, a bridge approach). Fluency in Civil 3D + InRoads / OpenRoads Designer required; project-specific software (HEC-RAS, HydroCAD, MOSS, GEOPAK legacy) added as project mix demands. Sr Engineering Technicians frequently lead 1-3 junior technicians on discipline-specific plan production.
  5. 5
    Specialize (drainage, roadway, transit, water/wastewater, structures) or move into construction management
    $82-115k. Career designer path β€” deep specialty in one discipline over 8-12 years; often the strongest technician on the firm's drainage or roadway team even without a PE. Construction management path β€” move from office design to Field Engineering Technician / Chief Inspector, then Assistant Project Manager, then Construction Manager. NICET IV + ACI + PMP or CCM open the door to CM seats at $105-155k+.
  6. 6
    Optional: complete a bachelor's in Civil Engineering Technology (BSCET) or Civil Engineering (BSCE) for the PE track
    For technicians who want to eventually stamp β€” a BSCET or BSCE from an ABET-EAC-accredited program plus 4 years of engineering experience under a PE plus passing the FE and PE exams gets you a PE license. Roughly 15-25% of career technicians make this jump; the pay ceiling for a PE (Sr Project Engineer $115-165k, Project Manager $135-195k, Principal Engineer $175-265k+) is materially above the technician ceiling, but 4-6 years of night school + a $6-15k exam prep cost is a real commitment.
  7. 7
    Advance to Design Supervisor / Sr Project Technician / Construction Manager / CAD Manager at $105-155k+
    12-18 years total. Ownership of a design team (4-10 technicians) or a construction management site (multi-year DOT contract worth $25-250M). CAD Manager path β€” own the firm-wide or DOT-district CAD standards, templates, and Bentley/Autodesk deployment. Public-sector equivalent is Engineering Technician Supervisor / Sr Engineering Technician at a state DOT at $95-135k + full public-sector benefits + pension.

Career Progression

Engineering Technician I / II
0-3 yrs$42-58k salaried + healthcare + 401(k) / pension at DOT; consulting $48-65k + healthcare + 401(k) match
  • β€’Plan-sheet production in Civil 3D or MicroStation / OpenRoads Designer under a Sr Designer or PE
  • β€’Cross-section development, quantity takeoff, plan and profile production
  • β€’Field-support tasks β€” office-based support to survey crews and inspectors; existing-utility mapping
  • β€’Standard drainage details, erosion-control plans, traffic-control plans under Sr review
Next: Sr Engineering Technician / Civil Designer at 3-6 years with NICET Level II + demonstrated Civil 3D fluency.
Sr Engineering Technician / Civil Designer
3-8 yrs$60-88k salaried + bonus (consulting 3-8%) + healthcare + 401(k) match; DOT step-and-grade $58-82k + full public-sector benefits + pension
  • β€’Own design production on a project element (corridor segment, storm sewer network, intersection, site development)
  • β€’Coordinate with PE-of-record on design decisions and design-criteria compliance (AASHTO, DOT design manual)
  • β€’QC of junior technician plan sheets before PE review
  • β€’Client / agency review-comment resolution; construction-phase RFI (Request for Information) response
Next: Sr Designer / CAD Manager / Project Technician at 7-12 years with NICET III + specialty depth.
Sr Designer / Project Technician / CAD Manager
7-12 yrs$82-115k salaried + 5-10% bonus + healthcare + 401(k) match at consulting; DOT Sr Engineering Technician $78-105k + full public-sector benefits + pension
  • β€’Lead design production on a full project (10-40 sheet PS&E package, $2-25M construction value)
  • β€’Direct 2-5 junior technicians and designers; QC all plan production before PE stamp
  • β€’Own firm-wide or district-wide CAD standards, sheet templates, and Bentley / Autodesk deployment
  • β€’Represent the design team in agency review meetings and construction pre-construction conferences
Next: Design Supervisor / Construction Manager at 12-18 years.
Design Supervisor / Sr Project Technician / Construction Manager
12-18 yrs$105-155k+ salaried + 8-15% bonus + healthcare + 401(k) match; DOT Engineering Technician Supervisor $95-135k + full public-sector benefits + pension
  • β€’Manage a technician design team (4-10 technicians) or a construction-inspection team on a major DOT project
  • β€’Ownership of a $25-250M construction contract as Construction Manager / Resident Engineer's Sr Technician
  • β€’P&L responsibility on consulting design budgets ($500k-3M design fee per project)
  • β€’Hire, mentor, and calibrate the technician career ladder for the district or business unit
Next: Director of Design / Director of Construction / Practice Lead at 18+ years.
Director of Design Technology / Practice Lead (Non-PE track)
18+ yrs$135-195k+ base + 10-18% bonus + healthcare + 401(k) match + LTIP at large consulting firms; DOT District Engineering Technician Manager $125-165k + full public-sector benefits + pension
  • β€’Own the technician / designer career ladder for a business unit (30-100 technicians) or DOT district
  • β€’Set firm-wide or district-wide CAD, BIM, and digital-delivery standards (Bentley OpenX, Autodesk BIM 360, Trimble Connect)
  • β€’Represent the technician function on the firm's operations leadership team
  • β€’Own capital planning for CAD infrastructure, software licensing, and training

Interview Questions & Answers

5 free questions below. Career Kit unlocks 13 total plus resume bullets for every level.

Q1. Walk me through your last civil design deliverable in Civil 3D or OpenRoads Designer.technical
Structured with software, deliverable, and technical depth. Example: 'Last delivered a 30% PS&E for a 2.4-mile urban arterial widening project on a TxDOT contract using OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition + MicroStation. Owned the horizontal and vertical alignment for the 2 through-lane and 2 auxiliary-lane cross-section from Sta 100+00 to Sta 227+50. Set the alignments to TxDOT Roadway Design Manual criteria β€” 50 mph design speed, 758-ft minimum horizontal radius, 6% max superelevation. Built the corridor model with the TxDOT typical section from the CADD Standards, exported cross-sections at 50-ft stations, and produced earthwork quantities of 68,400 CY excavation and 41,200 CY embankment. Coordinated with the drainage lead on the 24 storm sewer inlets and 3 detention pond outfalls (routed in HydroCAD). QC'd my own sheets against the TxDOT sheet border template before PE review. Received 42 review comments from the district on the 30% submittal β€” resolved 38, discussed the 4 open items with the PE, and delivered the 60% submittal on schedule 8 weeks later.' Interviewers want specifics on software, agency standards, and quantitative outputs.
Q2. How do you approach a set of plan sheets you inherited from another technician mid-project?situational
Structured. (1) Read the project scope and design-criteria memo first β€” understand what was intended before you touch anything. (2) Audit the file structure β€” xref chain, sheet borders, layer standards, referenced surfaces and alignments. Broken xrefs and non-standard layers are the #1 cause of late-project rework. (3) Run a QC pass against the applicable CADD standards manual (TxDOT, Caltrans, FDOT, or firm standard); flag deviations and coordinate with the PE-of-record on which are acceptable and which need remediation. (4) Verify design criteria compliance β€” did the prior technician set the horizontal radius, vertical K-value, and cross-slope to the applicable AASHTO / DOT design manual criteria? Design deviations without a documented design exception are a red-flag finding. (5) Document your audit in a memo to the PE and Project Manager before proceeding. Interviewers screen for candidates who don't just plow forward without understanding the file they inherited.
Q3. Describe your work on a DOT construction inspection assignment.behavioral
STAR. Situation: Field Engineering Technician II on a Caltrans District 4 pavement rehabilitation contract in Alameda County β€” 4.8 miles of PCCP (Portland Cement Concrete Pavement) reconstruction on I-880 with $34M construction value; general contractor was Kiewit. Task: NICET III-certified inspector for concrete placement, aggregate base compaction, and dowel bar installation across nightwork shifts. Action: (1) Verified ACI Grade 1 concrete field testing on every truck β€” slump, air content, unit weight, temperature; documented cylinders per Caltrans Section 90; (2) Verified aggregate base compaction with nuclear density gauge per Caltrans Test Method 231 β€” 95% minimum relative compaction; (3) Verified dowel bar placement (spacing, embedment, alignment) per plan details; (4) Documented every observation in the daily inspection report submitted via Caltrans SiteManager; (5) Rejected 3 concrete trucks over 90-day exposure to placement window and 2 aggregate base sections that failed density; coordinated with the contractor's superintendent on remediation. Result: pavement construction closed at 100% of specification acceptance; zero pavement smoothness deductions; zero claims from the contractor on inspection decisions. Interviewers screen for specifics β€” the test methods, the software, the acceptance criteria, and the ability to hold the contractor to specification without inflaming the relationship.
Q4. Why civil engineering technology instead of civil engineering?culture
Honest answer that resonates. 'I want to be a designer and builder, not a manager and a stamp. The technician track lets me stay hands-on with Civil 3D and OpenRoads Designer, own the plan-sheet production, and be the person who actually makes the design decisions on a corridor segment or a storm sewer network. A Civil PE spends more time on client management and less time on production; I'm the opposite. Compensation ceiling at Sr Designer / CAD Manager / Design Supervisor is $105-155k which is competitive with junior/mid PE, and I can extend that on the construction-management track. If I want the PE later, the bachelor's-plus-exams path is still open β€” but I'd rather be an excellent Sr Designer with 12 years of production experience than a rushed PE with 4 years of drafting behind me.' Interviewers screen for candidates who chose the seat, not settled for it.
Q5. Where do you see your career in 5 years?closer
Show the fork clearly. Three tracks β€” Sr Designer / CAD Manager (career designer specialty, $85-115k), Construction Manager (field-heavy, NICET IV + PMP, $105-155k), or PE-track transition (bachelor's + FE + PE, $115-195k+). I'm on the career-designer path β€” I've completed NICET II Highway Design, I'm 2 years into NICET III, and I'd like to move into a Civil Designer seat at a consulting firm within 24 months. Specifically: land a Sr Engineering Technician seat at a top-25 consulting firm (Kimley-Horn, HDR, Michael Baker, WSP, Stantec) at $72-88k base + bonus + healthcare; own drainage design on a full corridor project as design lead; complete NICET III + start ArcGIS Pro certification; interview into Sr Designer / CAD Manager at $92-115k within 5 years. If your firm has a documented technician career ladder from Sr Technician to Design Supervisor within 8-10 years, that's the trajectory.

Resume Template β€” Sr Engineering Technician / Civil Designer (3-8 yrs)

Copy these bullets into your resume as a starting point. Career Kit includes bullets for every level of the ladder.

Sr Engineering Technician / Civil Designer (3-8 yrs)
  • β–ΈSr Engineering Technician at Kimley-Horn's Austin office; owned drainage design production on 8 TxDOT roadway widening projects ($2-25M construction value each) using OpenRoads Designer + HydroCAD + StormCAD.
  • β–ΈReduced 60% submittal review comments from an average of 62 per project to 18 through a documented pre-submittal QC checklist adopted firmwide.
  • β–ΈLed 2 junior technicians on plan production; mentored both to NICET Level II Highway Design completion in 18 months.
  • β–ΈNICET III Highway Design + ACI Concrete Field Testing Technician Grade 1. AAS Civil Engineering Technology (ABET-accredited). $76k base + 6% bonus + healthcare + 401(k) match.

What Gets You Rejected

  • βœ—Weak Civil 3D or MicroStation / OpenRoads Designer fluency β€” cannot open a file, navigate xrefs, or produce a plan-and-profile sheet without hand-holding.
  • βœ—No NICET certification or ABET-accredited associate degree β€” signals candidate hasn't done the credentialing work that DOTs and consulting firms use for pay-band placement.
  • βœ—Cannot read a set of PS&E plans and answer basic quantity-takeoff or design-criteria questions β€” Civil technicians must be strong plan-readers.
  • βœ—History of design errors that were caught in construction rather than in QC β€” leads to Change Orders and Claims; PE-of-record is the one on the hook, but the technician's reputation is the one that suffers.
  • βœ—Refuses field work, night work, or DOT-standard rotating construction inspection shifts β€” most technician career ladders require some field time.
  • βœ—No fluency in the applicable state DOT's CADD standards manual β€” a candidate interviewing for a TxDOT-heavy consulting seat who has never opened the TxDOT CAD Standards manual fails at the fit level.

Salary Negotiation Levers

  • βœ“NICET Level III / IV certifications add $5-15k at consulting firms and 1-2 step-and-grade advances at state DOTs.
  • βœ“Civil 3D + InRoads / OpenRoads Designer bi-stack fluency (can move between Autodesk and Bentley shops) adds 12-20% over single-stack technicians.
  • βœ“Specialty depth in drainage / hydraulics (HEC-RAS, HydroCAD, StormCAD) adds 8-15% over generalist roadway designers; water/wastewater technicians earn a similar premium.
  • βœ“Metro premium β€” Bay Area, NYC, Boston, DC, LA consulting firms pay 15-30% above US median for equivalent seats.
  • βœ“ABET-accredited associate degree + bachelor's-in-progress signals PE-track potential and adds 8-15% at consulting firms building future PEs.
  • βœ“DOT-side pension (CalPERS, ERS, TRS, PERA) is a real long-term compensation lever β€” a 30-year DOT technician retires with 50-75% of final salary. Consulting firms compete with 401(k) match up to 6% + bonus + faster promotion.
  • βœ“Construction management (NICET IV Highway Construction Inspection + PMP or CCM) opens Field Engineering Technician / Chief Inspector / Assistant Project Manager seats at $95-135k that pay 15-25% above equivalent office design seats.
  • βœ“Section 127 tuition-free federal + firm subsidy for BSCET / BSCE at ABET-accredited online programs (Old Dominion, Thomas Edison, Purdue Global, ASU Online, UT Tyler online) β€” negotiate this alongside base if PE-track transition is your target.

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Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians Salary by State

Best Cities (cost-adjusted) β†’

Salary Map β€” Click a state for details

$46K
$85Kβ–  No data

Top Paying States

Oregon
$85K
+31%
California
$83K
+29%
Washington
$80K
+23%
Illinois
$79K
+22%
Minnesota
$79K
+21%
Nevada
$75K
+15%
Vermont
$74K
+14%
Wisconsin
$74K
+14%
New York
$74K
+14%
Connecticut
$73K
+13%
Vertical line = national median. Click a state for full details.
StateMedianvs. National
Oregon$85,390+31.5%
California$83,490+28.5%
Washington$79,580+22.5%
Illinois$79,190+21.9%
Minnesota$78,690+21.2%
Nevada$74,810+15.2%
Vermont$74,100+14.1%
Wisconsin$73,970+13.9%
New York$73,790+13.6%
Connecticut$73,430+13.1%
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Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians Salary by Metro Area

Metro AreaMedianvs. National
Napa, CA$102,390+57.6%
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA$98,020+50.9%
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA$97,510+50.1%
Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA$97,410+50.0%
Vallejo, CA$96,860+49.1%
Modesto, CA$95,630+47.2%
Bend, OR$89,010+37.0%
Salem, OR$86,200+32.7%
Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA$84,930+30.8%
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA$84,690+30.4%
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Data Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS). Data reflects the most recent annual survey.
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