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Professional Architecture Practice Resources: Salaries

This guide covers those resources used largely in the professional field such as guides to standards, codes, etc.

Standard Resources for Wages & Salaries

IOMA's Report on Salary Surveys: Access ABI Inform, specify IOMA Report on Salary Surveys as the publication title, and launch the search. You may consider adding "architect" as a keyword to the search string to zone in that area. 

American salaries and wages survey

AIA's Architecture Billings Index: A leading economic indicator of construction activity and demand for design services. 

Prisma Recruitment Salary Survey 2011; Updated 5/1/2012

International Labour Office.  Provides statistics on wages, work hours, and more by occupation and industry for 200 countries.

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Compensation Methods for Architectural Services  Thomas R. Gossen, AIA, PE, Secretary/Treasurer and Chief Operating Officer Gossen Livingston Associates, Inc. This internet article discusses fees from the broadest perspective applicable to architectural services as a whole. Most architects are willing to do business under any of a number of fee arrangements; generally, the method chosen is for the convenience of the client. Definitions of terms used in this article are covered in Section 2.