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Information on the businesses and industries that employ Architecture and Related Services graduates and on wages and locations for those in the field.
The average salary for Architecture and Related Services majors is $99,945 and the most common occupations are Architects, except landscape and naval, Other designers, and Other managers.
The industry that employs the most Architecture and Related Services majors is Architectural, engineering & related services, though the highest paying industry, by average wage, is Petroleum & petroleum products merchant wholesalers.
Yearly Income for Common Jobs
The average salary for Architecture and Related Services majors is $99,945 and the most common occupations are Architects, except landscape and naval, Other designers, and Other managers.
This chart shows the average annual salaries of the most common occupations for Architecture and Related Services majors.
Highest Paying Locations
This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States colored by the average salary of Architecture and Related Services majors.
Note that the census collects information tied to where people live, not where they work. It is possible that Architecture and Related Services majors live and work in the same place, but it is also possible that they live and work in two different places.
Most Common
The most common occupations Architecture and Related Services majors, by number of employees, are Architects, except landscape and naval, Other designers, and Other managers.
Most Specialized
Compared to other majors, there are an unusually high number of Architecture and Related Services majors working as Architects, except landscape and naval, Landscape architects, and Urban & regional planners.
Highest Paid
The highest paid occupations by median income for Architecture and Related Services majors are Surgeons, Securities, commodities, & financial services sales agents, and Computer network architects.
Occupations by Share
The number of Architecture and Related Services graduates in the workforce has been growing at a rate of 2.32%, from 399,616 in 2021 to 408,874 in 2022.
The largest single share of Architecture and Related Services graduates go on to work as Architects, except landscape and naval (26.4%). This chart shows the various jobs filled by those with a major in Architecture and Related Services by share of the total number of graduates.
Most Common
The most common industries that employ Architecture and Related Services majors, by number of employees, are Architectural, engineering & related services, Construction, and Colleges, universities & professional schools, including junior colleges.
Highest Paid
The highest paying industries of Architecture and Related Services majors, by average wage, are Petroleum & petroleum products merchant wholesalers, Miscellaneous durable goods merchant wholesalers, and Offices of physicians.
Industries by Share
The number of Architecture and Related Services graduates in the workforce has been growing at a rate of 2.32%, from 399,616 in 2021 to 408,874 in 2022.
The industry which employs the most Architecture and Related Services graduates by share is Architectural, engineering & related services, followed by Construction. This visualization shows the industries that hire those who major in Architecture and Related Services.
Specialty Locations
This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States where there are a relatively high population of Architecture and Related Services majors.
Note that the census collects information tied to where people live, not where they work. It is possible that Architecture and Related Services majors live and work in the same place, but it is also possible that they live and work in two different places.
Diversity
Demographic information for those who earn a degree in Architecture and Related Services in the United States.
The average age of a person in the workforce with a degree in Architecture and Related Services is 44.3.
Workforce Age
This chart shows distribution of ages for employees with a degree in Architecture and Related Services. The most common ages of employees with this major are 30 and 38 years old, which represent 2.9% and 2.79% of the population, respectively.
Workforce Degrees
The most common degree types held by the working population in Architecture and Related Services are Bachelors Degree, Masters Degree, and Professional degree.
Global Diversity
- Mexico7,771 degree recipients
- India7,310 degree recipients
- China6,942 degree recipients
- Iran3.79 times more than expected
- Spain3.45 times more than expected
- Singapore3.44 times more than expected
There are a relatively high number of people that were born in Iran that hold Architecture and Related Services degrees (3.79 times more than expected), and the most common country of origin by total numbers for non-US students earning a degree in this field is Mexico (7,771 degree recipients).
Skills
Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Urban Planning field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Urban Planning majors need many skills, but most especially Active Listening. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Urban Planning majors need more than the average amount of Management of Financial Resources, Operations Analysis, and Systems Analysis.
These two visualizations, one a radial chart and one a bar chart, show the same information, a rating of how necessary the following skills are for Urban Planning majors. Toggle between "value" and "RCA" to see the absolute rating of that skill (value) and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA), or how much greater or lesser that skill's rating is than the average. The longer the bar or the closer the line comes to the circumference of the circle, the more important that skill is. The importance of Management of Financial Resources is very distinctive for majors, but the Active Listening, Reading Comprehension, and Speaking are the three most important skills for people in the field.