Yep. I make $30/hr and can basically design an underground network (with revisions) for a medium sized city in a couple months using some of the automation tools available in ArcGIS. Boss man doesn't know what we do and only comes into the office to complain about us not making him enough money between his bi-monthly $50,000 family ski trips.
It's legitimately insane how much work even an entry level draftsman/draftswoman can do now. Especially with Open Data and Arc. like literally millions of feet of design per drafter per year for someone who hadn't even touched the software before they started the job.
That kinda design footage used to be reserved for entire teams of engineers, now it's just some 23 year old kid who learned how to use a computer to record an album in college getting paid $20-30/hr
Yep. I make $30/hr and can basically design an underground network (with revisions) for a medium sized city in a couple months using some of the automation tools available in ArcGIS. Boss man doesn't know what we do and only comes into the office to complain about us not making him enough money between his bi-monthly $50,000 family ski trips.
It's legitimately insane how much work even an entry level draftsman/draftswoman can do now. Especially with Open Data and Arc. like literally millions of feet of design per drafter per year for someone who hadn't even touched the software before they started the job.
That kinda design footage used to be reserved for entire teams of engineers, now it's just some 23 year old kid who learned how to use a computer to record an album in college getting paid $20-30/hr