The Average Salary of a Professor of Landscape Architecture
The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics classifies landscape architecture professors under the category of "postsecondary teachers." An architecture professor teaches courses related to architectural practice, history and design. Some spend most of their time teaching, while others divide their time between teaching and research.
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Architecture professors earned a mean annual wage of $79,300 as of May 2010, according to the bureau's Occupational Employment Statistics survey. The bottom 10 percent earned $41,780 and the top 10 percent made $125,690. Median annual wages for architecture professors were $73,500. The bureau calculated mean annual wages by multiplying the mean hourly wage by 2,080 hours -- the average number of hours worked by full-time architecture professors.
Industries
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Architecture professors were primarily employed in three industries: colleges, universities and professional schools; junior colleges; and technical and trade schools. They earned salaries of $81,500, $72,200 and $60,050, respectively. Colleges, universities and professional schools paid the highest salaries to architecture professionals, and also had the highest employment concentration for the occupation.
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Locations
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The five states that employed the largest numbers of architecture professors were New York, Texas, California, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Mean annual wages in these states ranged from $69,640 in Michigan to $97,090 in New York. New York was also the highest-paying state for architecture professors, followed by Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, California and Florida. New York was the highest-paying metropolitan area for architecture professors, with a mean annual wage of $105,700.
Considerations
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The bureau reports that employment for postsecondary teachers is expected to grow by 15 percent through 2018. Architecture professors with master's degrees can find employment at technical schools and 2-year colleges; while tenure-track positions at 4-year universities typically require applicants to hold a doctoral degree. Competition will be keen for tenure-track positions; job availability is better at 2-year institutions, the bureau notes.
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