Salaries / Architects, Except Landscape And Naval / San Francisco
Architects, Except Landscape And Naval salaries in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA
Auto-summary H-1B filings: DOL disclosure data
Employers filed 129 certified H-1B applications for architects, except landscape and naval in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA area (July 2025 to June 2026), from 71 employers.
The middle half of offers were $80,000 to $109,500 a year, with a median of $88,500: 8% above the national median for this job ($82,000).
The most common wage level was Level I (73% of filings).
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Wage levels
DOL sets four wage levels by experience. The share of filings at each level, and the minimum the employer must pay for that level here.
| Level | Share of filings | Prevailing wage (minimum) |
|---|---|---|
| Level I (entry) | 73% | — |
| Level II (qualified) | 20% | — |
| Level III (experienced) | 7% | — |
| Level IV (fully competent) | 0% | — |
We don't carry prevailing wages for this occupation yet; the DOL wage search has them.
Who sponsors architects, except landscape and naval here
| Employer | H-1B filings | Median offer | Green card filings (PERM, this job, US) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perkins & Will, Inc. | 8 | $80,000 | 12 |
| Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, Inc. | 7 | $100,000 | 8 |
| Handel Architects LLP | 7 | $85,500 | — |
| MBH Architects Inc. | 6 | $87,500 | — |
| Solomon Cordwell Buenz | 5 | $80,000 | 2 |
| SmithGroup, Inc., subsidiary of SmithGroup Co., Inc. | 5 | $105,000 | 4 |
| Klopf Architecture | 4 | $97,500 | 1 |
| WRNS Studio | 4 | $79,500 | 3 |
| HDR Architecture, Inc. | 4 | $95,000 | 14 |
| M. Arthur Gensler Jr. & Associates, Inc. | 4 | $114,500 | 17 |
| Boulder Associates, Inc. | 3 | $90,000 | — |
| Lewis Butler Architects | 3 | $83,000 | — |
| Stantec Architecture Inc. | 3 | $80,000 | 5 |
| KTGY Group, Inc. | 3 | $80,000 | — |
| Cottage Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $139,500 | 1 |
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Common titles filed under this occupation: Architectural Designer, Designer, Architect, Project Architect, Project Designer, Project Manager, Job Captain, Designer Ii.
About this data
Offers are the wages employers put on certified Labor Condition Applications (LCAs) for H-1B workers: Certified H-1B LCAs decided July 2025 to June 2026. An LCA is filed before a petition, so not every filing became a job, and pay excludes bonus and stock. Annual pay; hourly offers are multiplied by 2,080. Pages appear only where there were at least 100 filings. Source: DOL disclosure data and OFLC wage data. Not legal or financial advice.