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Job Satisfaction High for Surveyors
By Perry Trunick
Spoiler alert: Surveyors reported earning more in the POB Annual Salary and Benefits Study in 2016 than they reported in the 2015 study. A number of factors come into play, so it isn’t a simple case of everyone taking a giant step forward. Still, over half of respondents saw an increase in their annual gross salary. There are a couple of interesting developments in the demographics of the land surveying and mapping professionals who responded to the 2016 questionnaire. ...
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Editor's Points: Teaching Young Surveyors
By Perry Trunick
Judging by the results of POB’s annual Salary and Benefits study, you love what you do – job satisfaction clearly explains why there are so many surveyors at the top scales on experience and age. If you love what you do, it will show, and if you can communicate that while you’re teaching or mentoring, we’ll be on the road to growing the number of young surveyors. …
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Traversing the Law: Non-Navigable Lakes and Common Law
By Jeffery N. Lucas, PLS, Esq.
Perhaps one of the most divergent areas of boundary law has to do with water boundaries and the riparian rights associated with the ownership of waterfront property. As we have discussed on several occasions, because of the heavy infusion of court decisions, boundary law is about as homogenized as any area of the law can get. However, that is not to say that it has uniform application across all jurisdictions. …
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Texas RPLS Needed
Derek Johnson
Our company is a small land surveying company in the eastern Texas area, about one hour from Houston. We currently have three field crews, an office technician and one chief surveyor. Our business is growing so fast that we cannot keep up. We are in need of another RPLS. … Read More
Boundary Line Adjustment vs. Boundary Line Resolution
Posted by Tom Gray
The thing is, with a BLA, the boundaries are not uncertain; they are simply in an undesirable location. The Boundary Line Resolution (BLR), in contrast, is a method in which two property owners who are uncertain as to the location of a common boundary can fix that line. … Read More
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