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Architectural and Civil Drafters · SOC 17-3011

Architectural and Civil Drafters Salary in the Fargo Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Fargo, ND-MN metro area

Figures describe the Fargo, ND-MN metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Fargo city limits.

Median annual wage$65,030
Median hourly wage$31.26

Architectural and Civil Drafters in the Fargo, ND-MN metro area earned a median of $65,030 per year ($31.26 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $48,240 at the 10th percentile to $89,500 at the 90th. BLS estimates 210 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Architectural and Civil Drafters in the Fargo metro area earn more than $65,030 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $59,790 and $76,760.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$48,240$59,790$65,030$76,760$89,500
Hourly$23.19$28.75$31.26$36.90$43.03

A percentile is a cut point: 25% of workers in this occupation and area earn less than the 25th-percentile wage. The median is the 50th percentile — half earn less, half earn more.

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How this area compares

  • Fargo metro areathis metro area
    $65,030
  • North Dakotastate (ND)
    $64,720
  • United Statesnational
    $66,150

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

The median here is about the same vs North Dakota overall and −2% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$36,940$52,773$68,607$84,440Ponce, PR — $36,940San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR — $45,070Albuquerque, NM — $46,740Tuscaloosa, AL — $47,460McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX — $47,790Pueblo, CO — $48,060Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL — $48,520Brownsville-Harlingen, TX — $48,710Muskegon-Norton Shores, MI — $48,880Dothan, AL — $49,260Lafayette, LA — $49,990Auburn-Opelika, AL — $50,950Pocatello, ID — $51,900Champaign-Urbana, IL — $51,920Traverse City, MI — $52,050Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL — $52,260Bloomington, IN — $52,410Montgomery, AL — $52,550Johnstown, PA — $52,750Lubbock, TX — $52,780South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI — $52,790Bowling Green, KY — $52,980Albany, GA — $52,990Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ — $53,500College Station-Bryan, TX — $54,620El Paso, TX — $54,840Lexington-Fayette, KY — $55,640Tallahassee, FL — $55,710Fayetteville, NC — $56,120Wichita, KS — $56,270Columbus, GA-AL — $56,430Mobile, AL — $56,800Shreveport-Bossier City, LA — $56,810Las Cruces, NM — $56,980Brunswick-St. Simons, GA — $57,060Fort Wayne, IN — $57,110Winston-Salem, NC — $57,180Rapid City, SD — $57,300Lynchburg, VA — $57,310Columbia, MO — $57,410Birmingham, AL — $57,510Valdosta, GA — $57,540Waco, TX — $57,650Jackson, MS — $57,790Gulfport-Biloxi, MS — $57,940Elkhart-Goshen, IN — $58,080Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH — $58,180Tyler, TX — $58,230Abilene, TX — $58,290Wildwood-The Villages, FL — $58,290Idaho Falls, ID — $58,310Grand Junction, CO — $58,350Jefferson City, MO — $58,420Chambersburg, PA — $58,550Sherman-Denison, TX — $58,630Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA — $58,640Ocala, FL — $58,660Sebastian-Vero Beach-West Vero Corridor, FL — $58,660Joplin, MO-KS — $58,690Canton-Massillon, OH — $58,730San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $58,750Chattanooga, TN-GA — $58,780Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $58,800Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN — $58,810Peoria, IL — $58,820Terre Haute, IN — $58,820Sioux Falls, SD-MN — $58,860Amarillo, TX — $58,900Ann Arbor, MI — $59,280Twin Falls, ID — $59,370Asheville, NC — $59,560Lincoln, NE — $59,640Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $59,740Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL — $59,760Fort Smith, AR-OK — $59,820Wausau, WI — $59,850Winchester, VA-WV — $59,860Evansville, IN — $59,890Iowa City, IA — $59,990Huntsville, AL — $60,170Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL — $60,240Lansing-East Lansing, MI — $60,310Erie, PA — $60,320Lawrence, KS — $60,380Gainesville, FL — $60,460Athens-Clarke County, GA — $60,520Johnson City, TN — $60,530Grand Forks, ND-MN — $60,800Reading, PA — $60,800Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC — $60,880Springfield, MO — $60,880Charleston, WV — $60,920Yakima, WA — $60,950Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA — $60,990Durham-Chapel Hill, NC — $61,080Roanoke, VA — $61,080Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $61,090St. George, UT — $61,130Kingston, NY — $61,230Duluth, MN-WI — $61,270Columbus, OH — $61,310Eau Claire, WI — $61,350Flint, MI — $61,440Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV — $61,440Macon-Bibb County, GA — $61,490Burlington-South Burlington, VT — $61,590Midland, TX — $61,610Sioux City, IA-NE-SD — $61,630Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT — $61,690Williamsport, PA — $61,710Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $61,720Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL — $61,740Great Falls, MT — $61,790Colorado Springs, CO — $61,850Janesville-Beloit, WI — $61,850Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA — $61,860Appleton, WI — $61,890Yuma, AZ — $61,900Logan, UT-ID — $61,930Toledo, OH — $61,930Corpus Christi, TX — $61,960Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $61,960Ogden, UT — $61,980Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA — $62,020Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $62,030Youngstown-Warren, OH — $62,080Cleveland, OH — $62,130Jacksonville, FL — $62,180Kalamazoo-Portage, MI — $62,300Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $62,330Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $62,330Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY — $62,360Green Bay, WI — $62,380Charlottesville, VA — $62,400Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL — $62,420St. Louis, MO-IL — $62,430Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC — $62,480Clarksville, TN-KY — $62,550Bangor, ME — $62,610Bellingham, WA — $62,620Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA — $62,630Cedar Rapids, IA — $62,660Akron, OH — $62,670Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL — $62,780Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL — $62,780Richmond, VA — $62,830Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $62,900Eugene-Springfield, OR — $62,960Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $63,070Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $63,120Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $63,120Panama City-Panama City Beach, FL — $63,120Boise City, ID — $63,160Port St. Lucie, FL — $63,170Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA — $63,180Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $63,200Omaha, NE-IA — $63,200Spartanburg, SC — $63,200Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR — $63,230Greensboro-High Point, NC — $63,230Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $63,250Redding, CA — $63,410Rockford, IL — $63,440North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL — $63,450Kansas City, MO-KS — $63,520Lancaster, PA — $63,570Ames, IA — $63,620Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA — $63,770Oklahoma City, OK — $63,840Manchester-Nashua, NH — $63,850Oshkosh-Neenah, WI — $63,850State College, PA — $63,850Bozeman, MT — $63,880Fort Collins-Loveland, CO — $63,930Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $63,940Columbia, SC — $64,110St. Cloud, MN — $64,130Urban Honolulu, HI — $64,130Punta Gorda, FL — $64,200Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $64,240Fresno, CA — $64,280La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN — $64,350Coeur d'Alene, ID — $64,360Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ — $64,420Longview, TX — $64,470Trenton-Princeton, NJ — $64,590Tulsa, OK — $64,610Killeen-Temple, TX — $64,700Rochester, NY — $64,770Kahului-Wailuku, HI — $64,850Greenville, NC — $64,900Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $64,900Fargo, ND-MN — $65,030Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $65,090Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $65,160Modesto, CA — $65,230Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $65,310Santa Fe, NM — $65,370Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $65,380New Haven, CT — $65,400Naples-Marco Island, FL — $65,470Dubuque, IA — $65,760Billings, MT — $65,820Raleigh-Cary, NC — $65,840Syracuse, NY — $66,140Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL — $66,370Salinas, CA — $66,470Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $66,550Medford, OR — $66,590Wilmington, NC — $66,660Ithaca, NY — $66,690Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $66,890Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $66,930Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $67,020Barnstable Town, MA — $67,250York-Hanover, PA — $67,360Bend, OR — $67,410Cheyenne, WY — $67,640Greeley, CO — $67,720Bismarck, ND — $67,780Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA — $67,930Amherst Town-Northampton, MA — $68,020Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $68,120Pittsburgh, PA — $68,160Altoona, PA — $68,230Topeka, KS — $68,290Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $68,460Visalia, CA — $68,470Tucson, AZ — $68,640Missoula, MT — $68,760Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC — $69,440Reno, NV — $69,650Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $70,010Springfield, MA — $70,080Baton Rouge, LA — $70,300Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $70,580Portland-South Portland, ME — $70,610Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX — $70,730Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $70,780Stockton-Lodi, CA — $70,800Dover, DE — $70,840Salem, OR — $70,870San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA — $71,860Gainesville, GA — $71,930Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $72,020Sheboygan, WI — $72,040Knoxville, TN — $72,180Madison, WI — $72,210Worcester, MA — $72,310Kennewick-Richland, WA — $72,590Pittsfield, MA — $73,130Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $73,700Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA — $73,930Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $74,180Savannah, GA — $74,190Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $74,230Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $75,010Boulder, CO — $75,200Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA — $75,290Vallejo, CA — $75,460Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $75,560Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA — $75,750Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $75,810Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $75,830Napa, CA — $76,000Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $76,020Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $76,630Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $76,950New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $77,170Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $77,190Helena, MT — $77,320Manhattan, KS — $77,810Chico, CA — $77,850Lexington Park, MD — $78,010San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $78,340Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $79,310Dalton, GA — $79,410Lake Charles, LA — $79,540Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $79,860Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA — $80,040San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $81,130San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $82,820Waterbury-Shelton, CT — $83,630Rochester, MN — $83,780Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT — $84,440

Each dot is one metro area with a published median — hover any dot for the name and figure. Metros without published estimates are not drawn.

The Fargo metro area has the 93rd-highest published median for this occupation among the 285 metro areas where BLS publishes it. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Other metro areas in North Dakota

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for architectural and civil drafters, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • Fargo metro areathis page
    $65,030
  • Bismarck metro area
    $67,780
  • Grand Forks metro area
    $60,800

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

Keep exploring

Other occupations in the same SOC group with published medians here, largest employment first:

Civil Engineers$95,530Mechanical Engineers$86,330Industrial Engineers$86,510Architects, Except Landscape and Naval$95,100Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians$65,330Electrical Engineers$109,790

Highest-paying metro areas for architectural and civil drafterss · Highest-paying occupations in Fargo Metro

About this estimate

These figures are survey estimates from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program — modeled from employer reports collected over three years and benchmarked to May 2025. They describe what employers in this area currently pay across all industries, not what any individual worker will be offered.

Employment counts wage-and-salary jobs in the occupation (self-employed workers are excluded). Estimates carry sampling error; percentile wages are rounded by BLS. Some values are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality or quality — suppressed values appear here as “not published”, never as zero. Read the full methodology.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.