cost estimator

Cost estimators also find out which jobs are making a profit.

Cost estimators must present their estimates to supervisors and others.

During training, cost estimators usually work with an experienced inspector.

In May 2008, cost estimators had average yearly wages of $60,320.

Cost estimators figure out how much a project or product will cost.

A majority of cost estimators spend most of their time in an office.

The number of cost estimators is expected to grow much faster than the average for all occupations through the year 2018.

Cost estimators held about 217,800 jobs in 2008.

In the US, there were 185,400 cost estimators in 2010.

Each of the four plans was evaluated by a cost estimator, hired by the center.

Salaries of cost estimators may vary widely by experience, education, and the size of their employer.

The labor requirements are often the most variable and are a primary focus of construction cost estimators.

Some commercial software cost estimators may have productivity settings that account for the impact of non-functionality.

At the beginning of the lunchtime sessions, architects, engineers, security consultants and cost estimators give brief presentations.

The estimated costs of the known-unknowns is referred to by cost estimators as cost contingency.

The program has a college cost estimator that used the same database as Quicken, and it has similarly impressive "what if" capabilities.

Often the early feasibility, studies, and design development is supported by construction cost estimators, who prepare cost estimates for use in the decision-making process.

Injection molding cost estimator

Cost modeling practitioners often have the titles of cost estimators, cost engineers, or parametric analysts.

Her father is a cost estimator supervisor at Kellogg Brown & Root, an oil and gas engineering company in Houston.

More BLS information about cost estimators can be found in the Occupational Outlook Handbook.

The proposal to hire 20,000 new employees is "aggressive," Lynn said, but the Pentagon needs program managers, cost estimators, software engineers and systems engineers.

It was founded in 1956 by about 20 cost estimators in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Cost Estimator (or Estimator)

Many construction cost estimators (over 55%) continue to rely primarily upon manual methods, hard copy documents, and/or electronic spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel.