Architects, except landscape and naval job market in Mississippi

The highest-paying metro has a smaller employment market

Gulfport-Biloxi, MS leads the Mississippi metro comparison on median annual pay at $101,650, with estimated employment of 50. Jackson, MS leads on employment size at 130, while its median pay is $81,000. Across 2 metro estimates with both measures in OEWS May 2025, the highest-paying metro's median is 25.5% higher than the largest employment market's. Employment counts describe existing jobs, not available vacancies.

Some metro estimates cross state lines. Higher nominal pay does not establish better living standards or better chances of finding a job.

This occupation is less concentrated in the state

Using the national share of employment as the benchmark, architects, except landscape and naval have a published location quotient of 0.41 in Mississippi in OEWS May 2025. Their state employment share is 0.41 times the national share. The state estimate is 330 jobs, 0.3% of the national employment estimate for this occupation. It represents 0.28 jobs per thousand jobs in the state's OEWS employment universe. The comparison describes where existing employment is concentrated, not current hiring or future growth.

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

In January to March 2026, Professional and business services's year-over-year employment change of +1.2% accounts for 96.2% of the positive weighted contributions across the leading industry groups examined in Mississippi. This proxy weights each industry group by its share of the occupation's national industry mix; the examined groups cover 99.1% of the mix. The contribution share is not a count of occupation jobs created.

Published median pay is below the U.S. median

The OEWS May 2025 estimates put median annual pay for architects, except landscape and naval at $80,870 in Mississippi and $99,280 nationally. The state median is 18.5% lower. Living costs are not included in this comparison, and individual workers' pay varies.