Employment prospects of a Quantity Surveyor

Salam and dear all, 1. What are the employment prospects of a Quantity Surveyor? 2. Quantity Surveyors may work in Malaysia or overseas and in a variety of areas, vis.

• private practice (e.g. as a quantity surveyor or owner/partner of a professional quantity surveying firm),
• government sectors (e.g. as a Quantity Surveyors with the Public Works Department, Local Governments such as the Kuala Lumpur City Hall, etc),
• educational institutions (e.g. as a Lecturer, Researcher, Associate Professor, full-Professor, academic administrators, Director of Property/Development),
• construction companies (e.g. as Contractor, Contract Manager, Project Manager),
• property developers (e.g. Procurement Director/Manager, Project Manager),
• banks and financial institutions (e.g. property and development departments, risk, credit, project funding, etc),
• insurance and takaful,
• infrastructures (e.g. Tenaga Nasional, Telekom Malaysia, Malaysian Highway Authority, etc),
• industrial companies, and
• other commercial companies.

Their professional skills are highly respected and often achieve top managerial status (modified from http://www.ism.org.my). 3. In terms of salary, a fresh graduate Quantity Surveyor may earn an average of RM2,000.00 per month. 4. As for Quantity Surveyors in private practice, they can charge professional fees for services provided (for more information on professional fees refer to the Board of Quantity Surveyors' Malaysia or visit http://www.bqsm.gov.my). Wassalam.