- Of the approximately 18,940 landscape architects working in the United States in 2009, around 870 were employed in Texas, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The agency provides salary data for two Dallas metropolitan areas, one that includes Fort Worth and Arlington and another that includes Plano and Irving. About 380 landscape architects held jobs in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington region in 2009, and about 290 in the Dallas-Plano-Irving area. The BLS does not provide salary figures for self-employed landscape architects.
- Landscape architects in Texas had an average salary of $29.43 per hour, or $61,220 per year as of May 2009, according to the BLS. Landscape architects in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area had an average salary of $31.64 per hour, or $65,820 per year, and in the Dallas-Plano-Irving area, $32.48 per hour, or $67,560 per year. The Fort Worth-Arlington area, excluding Dallas, had an average of $59,990 per year.
- While the bottom 10 percent of landscape architects in Texas had salaries at or below $22,370 in 2009, the top 10 percent were earning more than $101,000 per year. The middle 50 percent range was $38,420 to $75,180 per year. The salary range was even wider in the Dallas metropolitan area. In the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington region, the middle 50 percent salary range for landscape architects was $41,420 to $86,670. The bottom 10 percent had salaries of $21,780 and lower, and the top 10 percent $109,480 and higher. In the Dallas-Plano-Irving region, the bottom 10 percent had salaries of $21,230 and below, the middle 50 percent $23,970 to $90,390, and the top 10 percent $115,940 and higher.
- The nationwide average salary for landscape architects in 2009 was $31.69 per hour, or $65,910 per year, nearly identical to the average salary in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington area of $65,820. Nationwide, the highest average salary for landscape architects by state was in Alabama, at $87,490 per year, and the lowest in Oklahoma, at $37,960.
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