Architects, except landscape and naval job market in Indiana

Industry trends, wages and hiring signals.

The headline

Indiana industry employment changed 1.4 percentage points above the U.S. benchmark

A data-driven view of the industries that employ Architects, except landscape and naval in Indiana.

Verified QCEW 2026 Q1January to March 2026 · State coverage 95.51% · BLS QCEWCitationEvidence record

Occupation pay

What Architects, except landscape and naval earn in Indiana

BLS OEWS occupation-level pay estimates for this role — separate from the industry wage trends used elsewhere in this report.

BLS OEWS source

Median annual wage

$96,060Indiana
Middle 50% of published wages
$63,040 – $127,440
U.S. median annual wage
$99,280
Reference period
May 2025

The middle 50% is the 25th-to-75th percentile wage range, not an experience-level band. Suppressed or unavailable BLS values remain unpublished rather than being estimated.

Pay around Indiana

How median pay varies by metro area

Published BLS OEWS metro estimates for Architects, except landscape and naval, compared with the Indiana median of $96,060.

Indiana median$96,060
Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN$103,050+7.3% vs. state
Middle 50%$64,390 – $133,700Published employment780
Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN$100,760+4.9% vs. state
Middle 50%$76,820 – $119,930Published employment220
Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN$98,750+2.8% vs. state
Middle 50%$76,200 – $126,850Published employment670
Bloomington, IN$86,900−9.5% vs. state
Middle 50%$66,810 – $101,680Published employment30
Evansville, IN$83,000−13.6% vs. state
Middle 50%$68,480 – $120,910Published employment80
South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI$82,300−14.3% vs. state
Middle 50%$60,680 – $100,800Published employment100
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Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN$81,790−14.9% vs. state
Middle 50%$65,820 – $105,090Published employment4,460
Fort Wayne, IN$79,750−17.0% vs. state
Middle 50%$61,460 – $104,210Published employment170

Areas are ordered by published median wage for readability, not as an overall job-market ranking. The vertical marker is the Indiana median. Some BLS metropolitan areas cross state lines, so a metro estimate can cover workers in more than one state.

Verified snapshot

Market at a Glance

Key changes in Indiana’s weighted industry mix.

+0.9%Industry employmentIndiana industry employmentU.S. -0.4%vs. -0.4% U.S.
+0.6%Establishments in weighted industriesIndiana establishments in weighted industriesU.S. +2.6%vs. +2.6% U.S.
+3.0%Avg. weekly industry wageIndiana avg. weekly industry wageU.S. +3.7% · not occupation payvs. +3.7% U.S. · not occupation pay
+1.4 ppGap vs. U.S. industry employmentState minus U.S. industry employment change

Percentage-point gaps use the original published values and are rounded once; subtracting the rounded percentages can give a slightly different result.

Published coverage: 41,649 represented establishments, 90.36% of the published industry mix.

Local research

What the data shows for architects, except landscape and naval in Indiana

Findings describe the published observation periods shown below. Research published Oct 10, 2026.

This occupation is less concentrated in the state

Architects, except landscape and naval account for 0.65 times their national share of employment in Indiana, according to OEWS May 2025. This is the published location quotient. The state estimate is 1,430 jobs, 1.3% of the national employment estimate for this occupation. It represents 0.45 jobs per thousand jobs in the state's OEWS employment universe. Concentration describes employment share, not current hiring or future growth.

OEWS May 2025 · BLS OEWS

OEWS employment estimates describe covered wage-and-salary jobs and exclude self-employed workers; location quotients do not measure vacancies or worker demand.

Professional and business services has the largest positive weighted contribution

Professional and business services supplies 99.5% of the positive weighted contributions to this occupation's industry employment-growth proxy in Indiana in January to March 2026. Its own year-over-year employment change was +1.1%. Each leading industry group is weighted by its share of the occupation's national industry mix, and the groups examined cover 95.0% of that mix. These contributions do not count occupation jobs created.

January to March 2026 · BLS QCEW

Pay differs widely between metro areas

Fort Wayne, IN and Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN define the low and high ends of this published median-pay comparison for Indiana. Their estimates are $79,750 and $103,050, respectively, in OEWS May 2025; the high end is 29.2% higher. The comparison includes 5 metro areas on the same wage basis and does not measure living costs or job availability.

OEWS May 2025 · BLS OEWS

Metro estimates may include areas in neighboring states. The comparison covers published metro estimates, not every part of the state.

Industry measures describe the industries associated with this occupation. They are not direct occupation employment, current openings or a state-level Job Market Health score. Findings describe published data and do not establish causes. Methodology

Employment trends

Year-over-year change in the weighted industries. The U.S. line is the latest-quarter benchmark because a comparable national quarterly history is not published here.

Latest published values
  • Indiana · 2026 Q1+0.9%
  • U.S. · latest-quarter benchmark-0.4%

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Quarterly Indiana industry employment changes and coverage
QuarterIndianaCoverage
2024 Q2-1.4%100%
2024 Q3-1.5%100%
2024 Q4-0.3%100%
2025 Q1-0.9%95.79%
2025 Q2-0.3%100%
2025 Q3+0.6%100%
2025 Q4+1.1%100%
2026 Q1+0.9%95.51%

How to read this chart

State trend and national reference

The solid line follows Indiana’s published year-over-year industry employment changes by quarter. The dashed U.S. line is a latest-quarter reference, not a second time series.

Published quarters
8
Earliest quarter
2024 Q2
Latest quarter
2026 Q1
U.S. benchmark
-0.4%

Quarters with no published value are omitted rather than interpolated.

Industry context

Where Architects, except landscape and naval Work

The occupation mix determines which Indiana industries are weighted into this view.

Industries weighted into the Indiana Architects, except landscape and naval context
Industry groupOccupation mixEmployment changeEstablishmentsAvg. weekly industry wage
Professional and business services90.1%+1.1%41,649$1,567
Construction4.1%Not published17,424$1,614
State and local1.8%-0.5%3,854$1,126
Federal1.6%-7.0%1,271$1,982
Private education and health services0.9%+0.5%21,662$1,250
Financial activities0.6%-0.6%20,482$2,142

Which industries are growing?

2 weighted industries are growing

Only weighted industries with a published positive Indiana employment change are listed.

  • Professional and business services+1.1%
  • Private education and health services+0.5%

The remaining weighted industries published a flat or negative change in January to March 2026.

Current Indiana context

Current Indiana Market Signals

Statewide indicators for all occupations in Indiana. They are not Architects, except landscape and naval demand and are not part of the Job Market Health score.

Statewide job postings

Indeed job postings · Indiana

Recent hiring-demand context · separate from the health score

96.0Postings index · February 1, 2020 = 100Observation: Oct 23, 2026
-4.0%Versus the February 2020 baseline
+0.2%Change over about four weeksSep 25, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026

Total postings index (seasonally adjusted) by observation date · baseline 100

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View values: Indeed postings index
Indeed postings index
Observation dateIndex (Feb 2020 = 100)
Jul 24, 202694.78
Jul 31, 202694.73
Aug 7, 202694.02
Aug 14, 202693.66
Aug 21, 202693.42
Aug 28, 202694.23
Sep 4, 202694.81
Sep 11, 202695.62
Sep 18, 202696.02
Sep 25, 202695.84
Oct 2, 202695.34
Oct 9, 202696.05
Oct 16, 202695.43
Oct 23, 202695.99

This is statewide demand across all occupations, not demand for this specific job. Postings are not a count of vacancies or hires, and Indeed does not cover the entire labor market.

Source: Indeed Hiring Lab · CC BY 4.0. Seven-day average, seasonally adjusted; publisher refreshes weekly and may revise history. Retrieved Nov 1, 2026 · saved source copy. JobMarketHealth calculates the displayed changes and samples weekly observations for the chart.

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Statewide layoff notices

Statewide layoff-notice filings

Indiana statewide

7 notices in this source

Notice dates from Aug 5, 2026 to Nov 2, 2026 (UTC), a rolling 90-calendar-day period.

What this means: These are statewide totals from notices dated in this period in Indiana’s official tracking system. Reported positions are the counts published in those notices, not a count of people confirmed to have lost their jobs. No employer is identified.

Notices describe planned workforce changes, not confirmed job losses. Notices may be amended or withdrawn. This statewide context is not occupation-specific and does not affect the Job Market Health score. Indiana’s state tracking system also records smaller Rapid Response events that fall below federal WARN thresholds, so it is not a list of federal WARN filings only.

Indiana Department of Workforce Development About WARN data

Source last checked

Career context

Related roles from the occupation’s published O*NET profile.

Questions answered by this release

Architects, except landscape and naval in Indiana FAQs

Each answer is limited to what QCEW 2026 Q1 actually publishes for this state.

Is employment growing for Architects, except landscape and naval in Indiana?

The available QCEW measure is not direct occupation employment. Employment across the Indiana industries weighted to Architects, except landscape and naval changed +0.9% year over year in January to March 2026, compared with -0.4% nationwide.

Are wages for Architects, except landscape and naval rising in Indiana?

QCEW does not publish pay for Architects, except landscape and naval in this view. Average weekly wages across the weighted industries changed +3.0% year over year; that must not be read as an occupation salary change.

How complete is this Indiana industry view?

The three core state trends each meet the site’s coverage floor; the minimum published coverage is 95.51% of the occupation’s industry mix.

Does this page show current Architects, except landscape and naval openings?

No. QCEW measures industry employment, establishments and wages. Any postings, news or WARN figures shown here are statewide context and are not occupation-specific openings.

Methodology & sourcesQCEW 2026 Q1 · coverage 95.51% · full evidence record

Methodology & Sources

Derived by JobMarketHealth from BLS QCEW + published occupation industry mix. This is occupation-weighted industry context, not direct occupation employment and not a count of current job openings.

Occupation
Architects, except landscape and naval
SOC code
17-1011
State
Indiana
QCEW release label
QCEW 2026 Q1
Data period
2026 Q1
State industry employment, year over year
+0.9%State data coverage 95.51%
U.S. benchmark, year over year
-0.4%
Difference from U.S. benchmark
+1.4 percentage pointsPercentage-point gaps use the original published values and are rounded once; subtracting the rounded percentages can give a slightly different result.
Establishments, year over year
+0.6%State data coverage 95.51%
Average weekly industry wage, year over year
+3.0%State data coverage 95.79%
Industry mix vintage
EP-2025-2035
BLS publication date
Aug 28, 2026
Source verification
Verified against the committed source snapshotVerified Sep 17, 2026
Canonical record URL
https://jobmarkethealth.com/occupations/architects-except-landscape-and-naval/indiana#evidence-record
Derived by
JobMarketHealth from BLS QCEW + published occupation industry mix

Weighted industry conditions are not direct occupation employment, occupation wages, current openings or a state-level Job Market Health score. No causal explanation is inferred.

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