Visa Wage Index

Architects, Except Landscape and Naval in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ

Employers filed 332 applications covering 383 positions for this role here, at a median of $90,000 a year. 249 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 New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ, 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$67,309
Level IIQualified: some experience, moderate supervision$88,899
Level IIIExperienced: sound understanding, limited supervision$110,490
Level IVFully competent: judgement, may supervise others$132,080

Who filed, and at what

EmployerLevelFilingsPositionsMedian
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC Level I 1515 $80,000
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP Level II 1111 $95,000
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC Level II 99 $97,000
Rockwell Architecture, Planning and Design, P.C. Level II 66 $100,000
Cannon Design, Inc. Level I 55 $87,000
Corgan Associates, Inc. Level I 55 $72,000
Perkins Eastman Architects DPC Level I 55 $67,309
Robert A.M. Stern Architects, LLP Level I 55 $77,954
S9 Architecture and Engineering DPC Level I 55 $73,000
SHoP Architects Inc. Level I 55 $72,500
Elicc Americas Corporation Level II 44 $88,899
STV Incorporated Level II 44 $90,107
Urbahn Architects PLLC Level I 44 $74,714
Bonetti Kozerski Architecture DPC Level III 33 $125,000
FOGARTY FINGER ARCHITECTURE PLLC Level I 33 $77,000
Fogarty Finger Architecture PLLC Level II 33 $93,500
Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, Inc. Level I 33 $90,000
Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, Inc. Level II 33 $93,366
Meier Architects D.P.C. Level I 35 $70,000
Perkins & Will, Inc. Level II 33 $88,899
Populous Group, LLC Level I 33 $96,013
5B Solutions LLC Level IV 22 $134,992
Arcadis Inc. Level I 22 $80,000
Arcadis Inc. Level II 22 $122,000
Arquitectonica New York P.C. Level I 22 $75,000
B.I.G. Architecture D.P.C. Level I 22 $77,250
BIMstream, INC Level III 22 $115,000
Bureau ND LLC Level II 22 $90,000
Corgan Associates, Inc. Level II 22 $103,390
Curtis Ginsberg Architects LLP Level I 22 $75,000
Dattner Architects, D.P.C. Level I 22 $74,000
ELICC AMERICAS CORPORATION Level I 22 $67,309
Emporium Design LLC Level I 22 $68,000
Fischer & Makooi Architects, PLLC Level I 22 $69,155
Gilsanz Murray Steficek LLP Engineers and Architects Level I 22 $79,000
Grimshaw, Inc. Level I 22 $95,250
Guthrie AI Inc. Level I 22 $150,000
Hart Howerton Partners, LtD Level II 22 $90,000
Hello Chapter LLC Level II 22 $90,000
Henningson, Durham & Richardson, PC Level I 22 $87,870
Henningson, Durham & Richardson, PC Level II 22 $116,152
HLW International LLP Level II 22 $102,340
HLZAE, Inc. Level I 22 $82,500
JCJ Business Corp, Inc. Level II 22 $88,900
Lang Architecture LLC Level II 22 $112,500
M. Arthur Gensler Jr. & Associates, Inc. Level II 22 $90,450
MARCHETTO HIGGINS STIEVE, PC Level II 22 $88,899
Marvel Architects. Landscape Architects, Urban Designer PLLC Level II 22 $89,500
MERCHANT AVIATION LLC Level I 22 $70,505
MOMENTUM-NA, INC. Level IV 22 $160,000
Moschella Architecture PLLC Level I 22 $80,000
MP ENGINEERS AND ARCHITECTS, P.C. Level I 22 $67,309
Mphasis Corporation Level III 22 $230,000
ODA-Architecture, P.C. Level II 22 $90,000
OMA USA Inc. Level I 22 $73,655
Perkins & Will, Inc. Level I 22 $67,309
Perkins & Will, Inc. Level III 22 $117,302
Peter F. Poon Architect, P.C. Level I 22 $79,260
PLATT BYARD DOVELL WHITE ARCHITECTS LLP Level I 22 $76,050
Populous Group, LLC Level II 22 $102,762
Pro-H Development Inc. Level II 22 $88,899
Renee Cooley Lighting Design Inc Level III 22 $120,000
Soft Studies Inc Level II 22 $90,000
STV Incorporated Level I 251 $75,250
Superstructures Engineering & Architecture, PLLC Level II 22 $93,500
White Lion Design Inc. Level II 22 $101,596
Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP Level II 22 $90,260
201 West 79th Street Realty Corp Level IV 11 $199,500
A & T Corp. Level I 11 $72,030
AC Hocek Architecture LLC Level I 11 $91,520
Accurise Consulting LLC Level I 11 $67,309
Advanced Facade Inc. Level I 11 $67,309
Advanced Facade Inc. Level II 11 $88,899
AECOM Technical Services, Inc. Level I 11 $81,224
AECOM Technical Services, Inc. Level II 11 $89,690
Agile Lens LLC Level II 11 $97,000
AKM ARCHITECTS LLP Level I 11 $67,309
AKM Construction Services Corp. Level I 11 $70,000
Algoma Inc. Level IV 11 $140,000
Allen Architectural Metals Inc. Level IV 11 $150,000
Andrew B. Ballard AIA Architect PLLC Level II 11 $105,000
Archimaera Architecture, P.C. Level I 11 $67,500
Archimaera Architecture, P. C. Level I 11 $67,500
Array Architects Inc. Level II 11 $89,981
Arup Architecture US, Inc. Level II 11 $113,600
AYON Studio Architecture . Preservation, P.C. Level II 11 $110,240
Azar Design Co, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Engineering and Land Surveying, P.C. Level III 11 $118,747
Beyer Blinder Belle, Architects and Planners, LLP Level II 11 $100,000
B.I.G. Architecture D.P.C. Level II 11 $90,480
B.I.G. Architecture D.P.C. Level III 11 $113,714
BIMNYC LLC Level I 11 $85,280
BKSK Architects LLP Level I 11 $78,000
BRIDGEPORT TRADING INC. Level II 11 $110,000
Burr Salvatore Architects, PLLC Level II 11 $88,899
Cannon Design, Inc. Level II 11 $115,000
Cazarch, Inc. Level I 11 $74,900
Cherico King Architect PC Level I 11 $73,403
Claire Weisz Architects LLP Level I 11 $73,500
Corgan Associates, Inc. Level III 11 $110,490
Dattner Architects D.P.C. Level II 11 $110,000

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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.