Architects, Except Landscape and Naval
SOC Code: 17-1011.00
The DOL disclosure extract lists 6,260 H-1B LCA filings for Architects, Except Landscape and Naval from 1,939 employer filers, with a 96.1% DOL certification rate and an average listed offered wage of $81,905. The highest-volume worksite state is NY with 1,775 filings. The highest-volume filer is Perkins & Will, Inc.. These filings are not USCIS petition approvals or visa outcomes.
LCA filing profile: Architects, Except Landscape and Naval. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-1011.00, the extract lists 6,260 Labor Condition Application filings from 1,939 distinct employer filers. The DOL certified 96.1% of those filings, a DOL record status for the wage and working-condition attestations. Filing volume does not establish that a role qualifies for H-1B, that a USCIS petition was filed or approved, or that anyone was hired.
Where this occupation sits in the corpus. By disclosed LCA volume, Architects, Except Landscape and Naval ranks #47 of 1,219 occupational codes in the current PlainVisa dataset, placing it in the top 5% by filings. This is a corpus-relative rank computed from the same FY2023–FY2026 DOL disclosure snapshot as this profile, not a measure of job quality, worker demand, or visa approval odds.
Where LCA filings are recorded for Architects, Except Landscape and Naval. The highest-volume employer filer is Perkins & Will, Inc. with 169 filings at an average listed offered wage of $75,240, followed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, Corgan Associates, Inc.. Geographically, NY leads with 1,775 filings (average listed wage $86,277), followed by CA, TX, IL. These distributions describe DOL filing records only; they do not measure labor-market demand, confirmed sponsorship, hiring, or visa outcomes.
Top Employers for Architects, Except Landscape and Naval
Employer filers with the most listed LCAs for this occupation
| Employer | LCA filings | Avg. Salary |
|---|---|---|
| Perkins & Will, Inc. | 169 | $75,240 |
| Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC | 164 | $83,553 |
| Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP | 153 | $82,568 |
| Corgan Associates, Inc. | 105 | $76,721 |
| SmithGroup, Inc., subsidiary of SmithGroup Co., Inc. | 103 | $79,721 |
| Perkins Eastman Architects DPC | 100 | $72,744 |
| Hellmuth Obata & Kassabaum, INC. | 99 | $83,391 |
| HKS, Inc. | 94 | $79,039 |
| HDR Architecture, Inc. | 87 | $99,246 |
| B.I.G. Architecture D.P.C. | 76 | $74,676 |
| Cannon Design, INC. | 71 | $78,131 |
| Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP | 58 | $75,005 |
| Stantec Architecture Inc. | 51 | $88,513 |
| STV Incorporated | 47 | $84,050 |
| M. Arthur Gensler Jr. & Associates, Inc. | 45 | $100,109 |
| Rockwell Architecture, Planning and Design, P.C. | 45 | $100,256 |
| Core Tech Construction Corporation | 44 | $76,346 |
| Solomon Cordwell Buenz | 39 | $70,891 |
| Handel Architects LLP | 36 | $78,751 |
| Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. | 36 | $87,529 |
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