Counted November 8, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Civil Designer: $80K median posted pay.
From 14 salary bands employers posted on 32 open civil designer roles in engineering. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 5 | — (3 of 8 bands) | — |
| Junior | 1 | — (1 of 8 bands) | — |
Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open.
| Employer | Open roles | Entry level |
|---|---|---|
| LaBella Associates | 7 | — |
| olsson | 7 | — |
| Atwell, LLC | 4 | — |
| KPFF Consulting Engineers | 4 | — |
| Timmons Group | 4 | — |
| lumosassociates | 2 | — |
| H&H | 1 | — |
| IMEG | 1 | — |
| KBR | 1 | — |
| Fluidstack | 1 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open civil designer roles right now.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| CAD Drafting | 25 | — |
| Civil Engineering | 22 | — |
| Student Assessment | 15 | — |
| Project Management | 8 | — |
| Permit Processing | 7 | — |
| GIS Mapping | 6 | — |
| Customer Retention | 4 | — |
| Technical Writing | 4 | — |
| Benefits Administration | 4 | — |
| Investigation | 3 | — |
Where the work is
13% of these roles are remote.
- Remote13%4 roles
- Hybrid13%4 roles
- On site69%22 roles
- Not stated6%2 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 32 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on November 8, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 14 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Civil Designer (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in engineering, which is why this page belongs to that career. A title gets a page only where twenty-five or more roles are open, eight or more of them posted a band, three or more employers are hiring for it and four in five of its postings sit in one career, so no page here is a guess.