Hiring Geographic Information Systems Technicians

What to Expect

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Via O*Net: The Geographic information systems technicians design or coordinate the development of integrated geographic information systems (gis) spatial or non-spatial databases, design or prepare graphic representations of geographic information systems (gis) data using gis hardware or software applications, and enter data into geographic information systems (gis) databases using techniques such as coordinate geometry, keyboard entry of tabular data, manual digitizing of maps, scanning or automatic conversion to vectors, and conversion of other sources of digital data.

They also maintain or modify existing geographic information systems (gis) databases, perform geospatial data building, modeling, or analysis using advanced spatial analysis, data manipulation, or cartography software, and analyze geographic information systems (gis) data to identify spatial relationships or display results of analyses using maps, graphs, or tabular data.

What to Pay

The geographic information systems technician with an impressive portfolio of work should earn about $15.91 an hour¹.  That’s an hourly savings of $4.82 compared to the geographic information systems technician who is hired as a full-time employee with benefits².

¹Based on estimates for this occupation (via O*Net.)
²Based on a total compensation cost of 30.3% (via EBRI.)

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