Top 5 insights
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The pool is barely growing.
27,448 landscape professionals across five core titles, up just 0.5% in a year. Firms are competing for the same people, not new ones.
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Senior talent is the pressure point.
Senior, Associate and Principal Landscape Architects are 10% of the pool but carry 55 of 368 open posts, one post for every 49 senior professionals.
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Talent moves more than it posts.
2,007 professionals changed jobs last year, more than five times the 368 open posts. Median tenure is 1.9 years .
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Civil engineering is pulling from design firms.
Civil engineering posts one job for every 28 landscape professionals, versus one per 74 in architecture and planning. Design firms lost a net 19 professionals to the sector last year.
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Experience carries a 64% premium.
Base-pay medians run $72K for designers, $92K for licensed Landscape Architects and $118K at the Senior/Principal level.
Where demand is tightest
Chicago
Hiring demand rated Very high
Washington DC-Baltimore
Hiring demand rated High
Denver
Hiring demand rated High
Civil engineering firms
1 post per 28 professionals