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Survey Researchers
Plan, develop, or conduct surveys. May analyze and interpret the meaning of survey data, determine survey objectives, or suggest or test question wording. Includes social scientists who primarily design questionnaires or supervise survey teams.
What a survey researcher does
Become a survey researcher
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good survey researcher
- Thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem.
- Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
- Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
- Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one.
- Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Average hourly rate is $35 per hour with an average salary of $72,500 per year.
- Half of workers earn between $25 and $39 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $51,600 and $81,300 per year.
Survey Researcher job outlook
- There are 303 workers in this occupation in Washington.
- There are 19 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.