H1B Report
Salary comparison

Architects, Except Landscape and Naval vs Data Scientists

Side-by-side H-1B prevailing-wage comparison using the same DOL LCA data that drives every page on H1B Report. Quartiles, hiring geography, top sponsors and yearly wage drift.

Occupation A
Architects, Except Landscape and Naval
SOC 17-1011Rank #35
Occupation B
Data Scientists
SOC 15-2051Rank #5

Key metrics

Wage figures are offered annual wage; volume is total LCA count.

MetricArchitects, Except Landscape and NavalData Scientists
Median wage$65,000$102,700
P25 wage$54,080$80,000
P75 wage$78,000$135,000
Wage spread (P75 − P25)$23,920$55,000
Total filings30,947340,799
Wage samples30,613340,106
Rank#35#5

Median wage by year

Year-over-year drift of the typical offered wage.

Architects, Except Landscape and Naval
Time series: 17 points from FY2010 to FY2026
Time series
PeriodValue
FY2010$53k
FY2011$53k
FY2012$58k
FY2013$62k
FY2014$61k
FY2015$63k
FY2016$62k
FY2017$62k
FY2018$64k
FY2019$65k
FY2020$65k
FY2021$68k
FY2022$70k
FY2023$74k
FY2024$74k
FY2025$77k
FY2026$90k
Data Scientists
Time series: 17 points from FY2010 to FY2026
Time series
PeriodValue
FY2010$70k
FY2011$71k
FY2012$71k
FY2013$74k
FY2014$75k
FY2015$76k
FY2016$78k
FY2017$85k
FY2018$91k
FY2019$95k
FY2020$102k
FY2021$111k
FY2022$115k
FY2023$119k
FY2024$118k
FY2025$121k
FY2026$130k

Top 5 hiring states — Architects, Except Landscape and Naval

  • 1NY7,781$62,400
  • 2CA6,011$69,056
  • 3TX1,945$69,389
  • 4MA1,435$68,536
  • 5IL1,288$62,218

Top 5 hiring states — Data Scientists

  • 1CA68,055$127,000
  • 2NY36,985$120,000
  • 3TX34,597$97,739
  • 4WA24,843$129,709
  • 5NJ17,688$95,000

Top 5 sponsors — Architects, Except Landscape and Naval

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