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Episode 36 Where Did All the Surveyors Go?

Licensed land surveyors are aging out of the profession, and recent California data confirms a long-term decline in the number of active professionals. This video examines why the marketplace has increasingly found ways to work around licensed land surveyors. As technology lowers barriers to producing “survey-like” outputs, work that was once clearly professional is now often treated as interchangeable labor or automated service. In some cases, this shift reflects failures within the profession itself to clearly define scope, value, and professional authority. Topics discussed include: The shrinking pool of licensed land surveyors How technology enables non-surveyors to perform survey-adjacent work The erosion of professional distinction between licensed surveyors and labor roles Why clearer credentialing and professional boundaries matter The need for licensed surveyors to move toward management and oversight roles rather than pure production This is a practical discussion about professional identity, market adaptation, and why land surveying must reinforce its role as a licensed profession—managing and directing work, not merely producing it—if it is to remain relevant.