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Quantity Surveyor Career

  • 11-02-2008 8:12pm
    #1
    Supercell
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    Any quantity surveyors here?
    Curious as to whether you would recommend the role as a career path, is the pay decent after a few years, what's the recommended route?
    Do you get to spend much time outside of the office?

    I'm half thinking of a career direction change and must admit this one has peaked my curiosity, any comments or recommendations much appreciated.
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  • #2
    nialinho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34 ✭nialinho


    just thought i'd bump this up as i was thinking of a career change to this too


  • #3
    k974
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 114 ✭✭k974


    ya i'm one or was one or am still are bit confusing but let me explain,

    i did the 3 year diploma then the 12 month placement and back to do the final degree year.

    after college you can then work for a subcontractor, supplier or main contractor or for a quantity surveying office (PQS).

    a PQS (qs office) prepares bills of quantities i.e schelude of the materials quantities in a job and looks after the clients financial interests progress claim variations payments etc it can be very 90% office based except for site meetings and its a professional enviroment shirt tie etc. you can go on and get chartered if you wish.



    the other route after college is to work for a contractor/sub contractor in this role, if your with a contractor you'll be looking after the builder finacial interests e.g sorting out and submitting variations and progress claims to the client and final accounts, and then dealing on the other hand with the subbies claims and variations basically trying to make the difference between the 2. again it depennd on the size of the builder if your site or office based if your in jeans or a shirt and tie, i know the big builders its very professional enviroment shirt and tie etc where as working for a subbie you could be in jeans in a jeep going round to a lot of sites.


    i didnt like the professional office enviroment so i do civils works and work on site and do both the site engineer role and the qs role for a smalle contractor e.g setting out progress claims etc etc


    there are lots of different types of roles i'm just giving you a brief run down

    as for money as far as i remember in ireland

    year out 15k
    first year after degree 35-45
    3 years 50k
    5 year 50-70k
    5years + 70-150k


    lads i know in oz are on more and many are on up to $100 an hour through agencys the middle east is an option dubai is smalle bit more but its tax free


    sorry this is very brief and dont have time to check the spellings


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