Visa Wage Index

Architects, Except Landscape and Naval in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

Employers filed 99 applications covering 102 positions for this role here, at a median of $75,858 a year. 67 of those state a minimum and no maximum — a Labor Condition Application commits an employer to a floor, not to a salary.

What the government requires here

The prevailing wage for Architects, Except Landscape and Naval in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN, wage year 2025-26 — the four levels an employer must meet depending on the experience the role demands.

LevelWho it is forA year
Level IEntry: a role needing basic understanding and close supervision$61,589
Level IIQualified: some experience, moderate supervision$75,858
Level IIIExperienced: sound understanding, limited supervision$90,126
Level IVFully competent: judgement, may supervise others$104,395

Who filed, and at what

EmployerLevelFilingsPositionsMedian
RIEDER NORAM INC Level II 44 $75,858
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP Level I 44 $69,692
SOLOMON CORDWELL BUENZ Level I 44 $61,589
Adrian Smith & Gordon Gill Architecture LLP Level I 33 $68,994
Goettsch Partners, Inc. Level I 33 $61,589
Holabird & Root LLC Level II 33 $75,858
KP&J Architects & Engineers, LLC Level I 33 $70,000
Perkins&Will, Inc. Level I 33 $62,000
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP Level II 33 $80,000
Solomon Cordwell Buenz Level II 33 $76,000
Archeo Design Studio, Inc. Level I 22 $79,000
Cannon Design, Inc. Level I 22 $70,154
DMAC Architecture PC Level I 22 $61,589
En Masse Architecture and Design Ltd. Level I 22 $70,700
Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC Level I 22 $73,403
FGP Atelier International PLLC Level II 22 $77,000
HKS, Inc. Level I 22 $71,949
Holabird & Root LLC Level I 22 $61,589
Jahn Architecture Inc. Level I 24 $61,600
M. Arthur Gensler Jr. & Associates, Inc. Level II 22 $83,500
RATIO States, LLC Level II 22 $87,000
Sara E.F. Gensburg, Ltd. Level II 22 $77,000
A&W Tool, Inc. Level I 11 $61,589
Arc Scout LLC Level II 11 $78,000
BDE Architecture, Inc. Level I 11 $92,700
BDE Architecture, Inc. Level II 11 $92,700
BLDG PROJECTS, INC. Level I 11 $61,589
Cannon Design, Inc. Level IV 11 $145,000
Chipman Design Architecture Inc. Level I 11 $72,000
Design Group JEDI Incorporated Level II 12 $76,769
DLR Group, Inc. Level II 11 $136,269
Eckenhoff Saunders Architects Inc. Level II 11 $76,000
GFT Infrastructure, Inc. Level I 11 $69,600
Globetrotters Engineering Corporation Level I 11 $65,000
Harley Ellis Devereaux Corporation Level II 11 $78,104
HDR Architecture, Inc. Level I 11 $83,762
HKS, Inc. Level II 11 $78,000
INTERPLAN, LLC Level I 11 $61,589
John Ronan Architect LLC Level II 11 $75,858
KOO LLC Level I 11 $68,000
Krueck & Sexton Architects, Ltd Level I 11 $61,589
Krueck & Sexton Architects, Ltd Level II 11 $78,000
The Lamar Johnson Collaborative, Inc. Level IV 11 $160,603
Perkins & Will, Inc. Level II 11 $75,858
Perkins Eastman Architects DPC Level I 11 $61,589
Senga Architects Inc. Level I 11 $61,589
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP Level III 11 $97,000
SmithGroup, Inc., subsidiary of SmithGroup Co., Inc. Level I 11 $75,200
Stantec Architecture Inc. Level IV 11 $117,749
Stantec Consulting Services Inc. Level II 11 $89,274
Studio Gang Architects Ltd. Level I 11 $70,000
Studio Gang Architects Ltd. Level II 11 $85,000
Studio Gang Architects, Ltd. Level III 11 $102,904
The University of Chicago Level IV 11 $152,388
VIATechnik LLC Level III 11 $101,043
Wight & Company Level II 11 $75,858
Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. Level I 11 $61,589
Woolpert Inc Level I 11 $71,781
Woolpert Inc Level II 11 $87,381
Woolpert Inc Level IV 11 $126,027
Becknell Services LLC Level I 11 $68,000
THORNTON TOMASETTI, INC. Level II 11 $85,000
RATIO States, LLC Level I 22 $61,620

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Source: OFLC disclosure data and prevailing wage library, US Department of Labor (public domain). Figures are what employers filed, not what they paid.