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 $40 per hour with an average salary of $83,500 per year.
- Half of workers earn between $33 and $47 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $68,500 and $97,900 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.