Landscape Architect
Designs outdoor systems where plants, water and use must all work. Results only become legible after a decade of growth.
- Pay band (est.)
- $80k–$132k
- Time to competence
- 7 years
- Licence
- Required
- Setting
- mixed
- Leverage
- medium
- Place constraint
- medium
- Physical demand
- 35/100
- Hours burden
- 52/100
Factor percentiles
Percentile against the whole curated set. Higher is better on that factor only.
- Play68th
Absorbing rather than merely paid.
- Specific knowledge61th
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.
- Pay54th
Mid-career floor and the range above it.
- Body64th
Inverse of physical demand and hours.
- Autonomy62th
Control of methods and time.
- People fit93th
Distance from your preferred people level.
- Place flexibility51th
Remote fit and freedom from specific metros.
- Time to skill28th
Inverse of years to competence.
- Meaning load50th
Closeness to the families you marked as meaningful. Your mapping, not ours.
- Downside tolerance74th
Inverse of named risk to body, market or platform.
Downside
Small profession; budgets are cut before the planting goes in.
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 52/100 and people intensity 58/100. Who you are with is analysed at relationistics.com.
Source note: BLS OEWS May 2024, Landscape Architects (17-1012): median $79,660, 90th percentile $132,250. Outlook from BLS 2025-35 projections, +4.4%. Other scores editorial. All figures are estimates for comparison.