The Datum Report

Occupation 2454 · Professional occupations

Chartered surveyors

Half of full-time chartered surveyors in the UK earn more than £46,184 a year, and half earn less.

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.

How people enter it

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.

What the work involves

• 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

Also called

Building surveyor · Chartered surveyor · Hydrographic surveyor · Land surveyor · Topographer

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for chartered surveyors, full-time employees, 2023 to 2025. Each point is that year's ASHE April snapshot as published — revisions are not backfilled into earlier years, and a year ONS withheld is a gap rather than a joined line.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Year-on-year change

The change from each year to the next, in per cent, computed from the figures in the chart above — so the two cannot disagree.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Pay by region

Median gross annual pay for full-time employees, ranked, against the UK figure. 10 of 11 regions are published: ONS withholds a cell where the survey sample cannot support it, and those are shown as gaps rather than dropped — an absent region is not a region without the work in it.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Period 2025. Table

Every regional figure

ONS does not publish occupational pay below region. Cells the survey could not support are shown as withheld, with its reason — adding a region split to a specific occupation leaves roughly a tenth of cells publishable.

Common questions

Classified alongside this

Architects · Chartered architectural technologists, planning officers and consultants · Construction project managers and related professionals · Quantity surveyors