Architects, Except Landscape and Naval Career, Salary and Skills
Architects, Except Landscape and Naval have a BLS-reported national median annual wage of $99,280 based on the 2025 OEWS dataset, with reported national employment of 106,770. Wage data is published for 284 locations.
Occupation description
Plan and design structures, such as private residences, office buildings, theaters, factories, and other structural property.
O*NET code
17-1011.00
Job zone
5
Typical education
Not recorded
Experience
Over 6 years, up to and including 8 years
National salary and employment
Median annual
$99,280
Hourly median
$47.73
Employment
106,770
Data year
2025
National salary distribution
$62,300
10th
$77,960
25th
$99,280
Median
$126,550
75th
$161,420
90th
Top skills
| Skill | Importance | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Critical Thinking | 4.25 | 4.75 |
| Operations Analysis | 4.12 | 4.62 |
| Complex Problem Solving | 4.00 | 4.38 |
| Reading Comprehension | 4.00 | 4.62 |
| Speaking | 4.00 | 4.12 |
| Writing | 3.88 | 4.38 |
| Monitoring | 3.88 | 4.38 |
| Active Listening | 3.88 | 4.38 |
| Judgment and Decision Making | 3.88 | 4.50 |
| Active Learning | 3.75 | 4.12 |
Typical tasks
- Plan or design structures such as residences, office buildings, theatres, factories, or other structural properties in accordance with environmental, safety, or other regulations.
- Meet with clients to review or discuss architectural drawings.
- Prepare contract documents for building contractors.
- Develop final construction plans that include aesthetic representations of the structure or details for its construction.
- Conduct periodic on-site observations of construction work to monitor compliance with plans.
- Consult with clients to determine functional or spatial requirements of structures.
- Integrate engineering elements into unified architectural designs.
- Prepare scale drawings or architectural designs, using computer-aided design or other tools.
Technology
- 1ST Pricing Window & Door Toolkit
- Adobe Acrobat
- Adobe Creative Cloud software
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe Photoshop
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud EC2
- Amazon Redshift
- Amazon Web Services AWS software
- Apache Cassandra
- Apache Hadoop
- Apache Hive
- Apache Maven
- Apache Pig
Architects, Except Landscape and Naval salary by location
Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.
- Architects, Except Landscape and Naval Salary in CAMedian $108,540 · Employment 13,270
- Architects, Except Landscape and Naval Salary in NYMedian $99,280 · Employment 10,360
- Architects, Except Landscape and Naval Salary in New York, NYMedian $99,710 · Employment 10,240
- Architects, Except Landscape and Naval Salary in TXMedian $94,490 · Employment 7,820
- Architects, Except Landscape and Naval Salary in FLMedian $96,240 · Employment 5,580
- Architects, Except Landscape and Naval Salary in ILMedian $81,780 · Employment 5,130
- Architects, Except Landscape and Naval Salary in Los Angeles, CAMedian $104,170 · Employment 4,870
- Architects, Except Landscape and Naval Salary in MAMedian $117,330 · Employment 4,590
- Architects, Except Landscape and Naval Salary in Chicago, ILMedian $81,790 · Employment 4,460
- Architects, Except Landscape and Naval Salary in Boston, MAMedian $119,120 · Employment 3,930
- Architects, Except Landscape and Naval Salary in San Francisco, CAMedian $126,550 · Employment 3,780
- Architects, Except Landscape and Naval Salary in PAMedian $97,030 · Employment 3,760
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Career and skills data: O*NET 31.0 (onetcenter.org). Salary and employment data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS, 2025 (bls.gov/oes). Figures are published survey estimates, not real-time market data.