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Landscape Architects · SOC 17-1012

Landscape Architects Salary in the Chicago Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area

Figures describe the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Chicago city limits.

Median annual wage$66,830
Median hourly wage$32.13

Landscape Architects in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area earned a median of $66,830 per year ($32.13 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $54,770 at the 10th percentile to $105,340 at the 90th. BLS estimates 850 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Landscape Architects in the Chicago metro area earn more than $66,830 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $54,770 and $77,510.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$54,770$54,770$66,830$77,510$105,340
Hourly$26.33$26.33$32.13$37.26$50.65

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

  • Chicago metro areathis metro area
    $66,830
  • Illinoisstate (IL)
    $67,460
  • United Statesnational
    $79,870

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

The median here is −1% vs Illinois overall and −16% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$61,010$80,643$100,277$119,910Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $61,010Omaha, NE-IA — $62,170Salem, OR — $63,180Salinas, CA — $63,520Tulsa, OK — $63,780Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $64,330Oklahoma City, OK — $64,370Columbus, OH — $64,660St. Louis, MO-IL — $66,080Wichita, KS — $66,120Lincoln, NE — $66,730Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $66,830Albuquerque, NM — $67,850Tucson, AZ — $67,860Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $67,990Fort Wayne, IN — $67,990Cleveland, OH — $69,990Sioux Falls, SD-MN — $70,620Tallahassee, FL — $70,690Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $70,800Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $71,900Syracuse, NY — $71,930Fort Collins-Loveland, CO — $73,490Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $73,600Pittsburgh, PA — $73,930York-Hanover, PA — $74,670Eugene-Springfield, OR — $74,970Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $74,990Lexington-Fayette, KY — $74,990Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $75,870Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $75,980Lancaster, PA — $76,590New Haven, CT — $76,680Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $76,730Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $77,040Colorado Springs, CO — $77,180Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL — $77,220Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $77,270Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL — $77,450San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA — $77,570Rochester, NY — $77,610Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $77,670Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $77,670Greensboro-High Point, NC — $77,850Reno, NV — $78,010San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $78,880Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $79,130Boise City, ID — $79,190Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $79,490Kansas City, MO-KS — $79,640Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $79,650Boulder, CO — $80,240Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $80,600Jacksonville, FL — $80,610Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL — $80,880Asheville, NC — $81,260Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $81,350Richmond, VA — $81,380Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $81,520Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $82,010North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL — $82,070Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $82,630Madison, WI — $82,870Portland-South Portland, ME — $82,870Ann Arbor, MI — $83,150San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $83,190Raleigh-Cary, NC — $83,420Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $83,590Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $83,900Durham-Chapel Hill, NC — $84,270Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $84,270Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $84,610Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA — $86,060Wilmington, NC — $87,440Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $89,350Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $90,330Fresno, CA — $90,860Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $91,140Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $91,520Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $92,970New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $94,040Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $94,510Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $95,760Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $97,280Trenton-Princeton, NJ — $99,180Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $99,330Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $99,470Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $101,640Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $103,670Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $106,030Birmingham, AL — $109,010San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $119,730San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $119,910

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 Chicago metro area has the 82nd-highest published median for this occupation among the 93 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”.

Keep exploring

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

Industrial Engineers$101,760Civil Engineers$100,160Mechanical Engineers$102,070Architects, Except Landscape and Naval$81,790Electrical Engineers$113,520Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians$81,360

Highest-paying metro areas for landscape architectss · Highest-paying occupations in Chicago 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.