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Architects, Except Landscape and Naval

SOC 17-1011 · 2024-2034

Plan and design structures, such as private residences, office buildings, theaters, factories, and other structural property.

How the U.S. Department of Labor describes this work. Published in English only.

What California expects of this job

Typical pay in California
$111,578per year
Projected openings
9,910
Projected change
+7.5%
Usually needs
Bachelor's degree

Skills this work uses most

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, rates how important each of these is to this work, and they are listed in that order, most important first. The ratings themselves are not shown, because the data carries the number without the scale it was measured on. The names are as published, in English.

  1. Speaking
  2. Operations Analysis
  3. Critical Thinking
  4. Reading Comprehension
  5. Writing
  6. Active Listening

Pay by region

RegionTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openings
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties)$137,847390
San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties)$129,6161,490
Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties)$128,717800
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties)$121,782460
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County)$121,6281,240
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County)$108,306170
Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County)$108,03990
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties)$106,323320
Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County)$105,72760
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County)$104,9753,250
North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties)$104,75230
Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County)$103,9461,490
Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County)$103,889110
Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties)$103,262100
Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County)$102,90340
Chico MSA (Butte County)$101,30020
Salinas MSA (Monterey County)$101,28040
Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County)$100,96130
San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County)$100,52060
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County)$99,646120
San Rafael MD (Marin County)Not reported90

What the pay actually ranges across

The lowest-paid tenth earn under
$77,757
A quarter earn under
$88,397
Half earn under
$111,578
Three quarters earn under
$156,697
The highest-paid tenth earn over
$175,951

A median is one point. These are the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2026 figures for California, and they say how far apart the people doing this job actually are. Read them as the spread across everyone already in the work — not as a starting wage and not as a promise about where anyone lands.

Similar work

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, names these as occupations involving work similar to this one — its own reading of the job, not a grouping by code. They keep O*NET's order, and only those California publishes a projection for are shown.

OccupationTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openingsProjected change
Landscape Architects$101,1342,050+3.8%
Interior Designers$82,4769,960+5.6%
Construction Managers$135,39447,800+10.9%
Civil Engineers$125,92938,210+8.2%
Construction and Building Inspectors$104,03414,650+2.1%
Architectural and Engineering Managers$213,80820,870+5%

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