Editing Forester (section)

== Career ==

===United States===
[[File:Glenn Casamassa, USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region Regional Forester - cropped.png|thumb|Forester Glenn Casamassa, [[U.S. Forest Service]] Regional Forester in the Pacific Northwest Region]]
The median salary of foresters in the [[United States]] was $53,750, in 2008.<ref>[http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos048.htm] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101106205746/http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos048.htm|date=November 6, 2010}}</ref>  Beginning foresters without bachelor's degrees make considerably less. Those with master's degrees are able to command salaries closer to the average. The [[Council for Higher Education Accreditation]] considers the [[Society of American Foresters]] as the principal [[Educational accreditation|accreditor]] for academic degree programs in professional forestry, both at a [[Bachelor's degree|Bachelor's]] and [[Master's degree|Master's]] level.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.chea.org/userfiles/Recognition/SAF.pdf|title=COUNCIL FOR HIGHER EDUCATION ACCREDITATION|date=2015|website=www.chea.org}}</ref>

Usually a bachelor's degree is considered the minimum education required, but some individuals are able to secure a job without a college education based on their experience.  Some states have a licensing requirement for foresters, and most of those require at least a four-year degree.

Foresters are often employed by private industry, federal and state [[land management]] agencies, or private consulting firms.<ref>{{cite web |title=Choose forestry |url=http://www.safnet.org/fs/careerbro.pdf |website=Society of American Foresters |access-date=2022-11-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304135450/http://www.safnet.org/fs/careerbro.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead}}</ref>