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Ways to raise your pay

• Become the building information modeling lead

  Managing the coordinated model for a whole project is the highest-paid version of this job.

• Learn structural or civil detailing

  Bridges, roads and site work pay better than residential drafting.

• Add code and permit knowledge

  The person who knows how to get a permit through the city is hard to replace.

• Voluntary certification

  The American Design Drafting Association lets you test one module at a time, which helps self-taught people prove they know the standards.