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Landscape Architects
Plan and design land areas for projects such as parks and other recreational facilities, airports, highways, hospitals, schools, land subdivisions, and commercial, industrial, and residential sites.
What a landscape architect does
Become a landscape architect
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good landscape architect
- Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
- Reading work related information.
- Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
- Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one.
- Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Average hourly rate is $50 per hour with an average salary of $83,500 per year.
- Half of workers earn between $32 and $56 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $29,800 and $102,900 per year.
- 64% of individuals in this occupation have been employed in every quarter of the past year.
Part-time
- The average hourly rate for part-time workers is $47 per hour with an average salary of $57,000 per year.
Landscape Architect job outlook
- There are 539 workers in this occupation in Washington.
- There are 99 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.
Multiple Jobs
- 2% of individuals in this occupation worked for more than one employer.
- 11% of individuals in this occupation held a position in another.