Architect
Designs buildings and carries them through permitting and construction. Long licensure, long projects, visible results.
- Pay band (est.)
- $97k–$160k
- Time to competence
- 8 years
- Licence
- Required
- Setting
- mixed
- Leverage
- medium
- Place constraint
- medium
- Physical demand
- 22/100
- Hours burden
- 62/100
Factor percentiles
Percentile against the whole curated set. Higher is better on that factor only.
- Play68th
Absorbing rather than merely paid.
- Specific knowledge64th
A combination of skills that is hard to copy.
- Leverage49th
Output that scales through code, media, capital or crew.
- Demand48th
Durability and shortage, scored conservatively.
- Pay69th
Mid-career floor and the range above it.
- Body71th
Inverse of physical demand and hours.
- Autonomy63th
Control of methods and time.
- People fit77th
Distance from your preferred people level.
- Place flexibility59th
Remote fit and freedom from specific metros.
- Time to skill16th
Inverse of years to competence.
- Meaning load50th
Closeness to the families you marked as meaningful. Your mapping, not ours.
- Downside tolerance47th
Inverse of named risk to body, market or platform.
Downside
Pay lags the training; income tracks construction cycles.
Examine this against your weights
The percentiles above use the default weights. Set your own on the ranking and this vocation moves with them.
- Place constraint is medium. Where you live is analysed at locationistics.com.
- Hours burden is 62/100 and people intensity 65/100. Who you are with is analysed at relationistics.com.
Source note: BLS OEWS May 2024, Architects, Except Landscape and Naval (17-1011): median $96,690, 90th percentile $159,800. Outlook from BLS 2025-35 projections, +4.3%. Other scores editorial. All figures are estimates for comparison.