Architects, Except Landscape and Naval: salary in the United States
What architects, except landscape and naval are paid nationally, measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in its survey of employer payrolls.
Median annual wage
US$99,280
May 2025
Mean annual wage
US$106,260
May 2025
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Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 national estimates
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What architects, except landscape and naval earn
The median annual wage for architects, except landscape and naval (Standard Occupational Classification 17-1011) in the United States was US$99,280 in May 2025, and the mean was US$106,260. The median is the middle wage: half of the 106,770 workers in this occupation earned less and half earned more.
For all occupations together the median was US$50,980. Within architecture and engineering occupations the median was US$99,520.
The survey measures wage and salary payments to employees: straight-time pay plus commissions, production bonuses, tips and cost-of-living allowances. It excludes overtime premiums, annual bonuses and employer-paid benefits, and it does not cover the self-employed.
| Measure | Annual | Hourly |
|---|---|---|
| Median wage | US$99,280 | US$47.73 an hour |
| Mean wage | US$106,260 | US$51.09 an hour |
| 10th percentile | US$62,300 | US$29.95 an hour |
| 25th percentile | US$77,960 | US$37.48 an hour |
| 75th percentile | US$126,550 | US$60.84 an hour |
| 90th percentile | US$161,420 | US$77.61 an hour |
How many people do this job
BLS estimates 106,770 employees in this occupation across the United States, which is 0.07% of all employment the survey covers.
How reliable this figure is
Relative standard error of the mean: 0.8%. The estimate is very precise.
How does architects, except landscape and naval: salary in the united states compare with the rest of the United States?
At US$99,280, architects, except landscape and naval: salary in the united states is well above the US$50,980 that average salary by occupation in the united states publishes for the United States as a whole — a difference of 95%. That gap is the first thing worth checking before comparing two job offers.
Why does pay for architects, except landscape and naval: salary in the united states vary so much?
A quarter of people in this group are paid below US$77,960 and a quarter above US$126,550; the median sits at US$99,280 and the mean at US$106,260. The gap between the two ends is wide, which usually means experience, location or employer size separates the lowest and highest earners by more than the job title alone.
What does "May 2025" mean for architects, except landscape and naval: salary in the united states?
The figures for architects, except landscape and naval: salary in the united states come from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 national estimates, with a reference period of May 2025. Pay statistics like this one are not updated in real time: the underlying survey or register takes months to collect and process, so the number reflects pay around that date, not today. Downloaded file: oesm25nat.zip (national_M2025_dl.xlsx). Wages at or above $239,200 a year are published by BLS only as "equal to or greater than" that amount.
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Median vs. mean
The median is the middle value when every salary is lined up from lowest to highest: half earn less, half earn more. The mean is the simple average. A handful of very high salaries pulls the mean up without moving the median, so the median is usually the better guide to what a typical person earns.
Percentile
A percentile splits the distribution into 100 equal parts. The 10th percentile is the value only a tenth of people earn below; the 90th percentile is what only a tenth earn above. Looking at several percentiles shows the full spread, not just one average.
Fonte: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) — Office for National Statistics.
Full-time equivalent
A way of converting part-time hours into the pay a full-time version of the same job would earn, so that a two-day-a-week role can be compared fairly with a five-day one. Figures that mix full-time and part-time workers without adjusting for this tend to understate typical full-time pay.
Coefficient of variation
A measure of how much an estimate could be off, expressed as a percentage of the estimate itself. Statistical agencies use it to flag figures based on too small a sample: a high coefficient of variation means the number should be read as a rough order of magnitude, not an exact figure.
Fonte: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) — Office for National Statistics.
Reference period
The point in time, or the stretch of time, that a published figure actually describes. Pay surveys take months to collect and process, so the reference period is usually well before the date the figures are released, and always before the date you are reading them.
Occupational classification
A standard code that groups similar jobs so that pay statistics can be compared across employers and over time — the UK uses SOC, Canada uses NOC, the United States uses SOC as well, and the European Union uses ISCO. The same job title can sit in different codes depending on the classification used.
Fonte: Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Licence: U.S. government work, public domain (17 U.S.C. § 105)
Reference period: May 2025
Data collected on: 7 October 2026
Downloaded file: oesm25nat.zip (national_M2025_dl.xlsx). Wages at or above $239,200 a year are published by BLS only as "equal to or greater than" that amount.
Figures are statistical averages for a whole group of employees. Your own pay depends on your employer, your experience, your hours and where you work.