H-1B demand profile: Architects, Except Landscape and Naval. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-1011-00, employers filed 5,776 Labor Condition Applications for Architects, Except Landscape and Naval positions across 1,905 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 96.1% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Architects, Except Landscape and Naval among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Architects, Except Landscape and Naval. Offered wages on LCAs range from $35,000 at the floor to $936,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $81,181. These figures reflect what employers commit to pay sponsored workers, not market averages, each offer must meet or exceed the DOL prevailing wage (Level I through IV) for the worksite, so the distribution tracks wage-level geography, years of experience, and regional cost of labor more than it does any single employer’s pay philosophy.

Where and who sponsors Architects, Except Landscape and Naval. The top sponsor is Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC with 151 petitions at an average offered wage of $83,354, followed by Perkins & Will, Inc, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, Corgan Associates, Inc. Geographically, NY leads with 1,643 filings (avg $85,708), followed by CA, TX, IL. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Architects, Except Landscape and Naval actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.