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A Guide to Salary Transparency Laws Across the United States

2024-03-26T08:54:00-04:00

At present, there is no federal pay transparency law in the United States. However, as Archinect frequently reports on, several states and cities across the United States have enacted their own requirements for employers seeking to hire or promote within their organization.

Below, we have listed the details of salary transparency laws across American cities and states as they exist in March 2024. As is noted towards the end of this resource, several more states with no existing requirements are currently in the process of debating or passing legislation to strengthen salary disclosure requirements.

You can help us make architecture salaries more transparent through Archinect’s ongoing salary poll. The poll, currently approaching 20,000 submissions, allows workers from practices across the U.S. and globally to anonymously offer their salary levels.

Design, Incorporated; Unpacking the Myths of the SCI-Arc Panel

2022-04-20T10:58:00-04:00

At one point during the recent SCI-Arc panel discussion, “How to be in an office,” students were presented with a choice. They were presented, on one hand, Design Firms, and on the other hand, Corporate Firms. The ensuing discussion went on to describe the choice as inspiration and passion vs. a paycheck.

It’s not an either/or proposition. That’s a myth.

For What It’s Worth: Unpaid Overtime Among Future Architects

2021-04-28T16:22:00-04:00

Over recent months, a conversation about unpaid overtime has risen to the top of the United Kingdom’s architectural discourse, spurred by lobbying from the Future Architects Front. We took a closer look at how the latest debate began, what it uncovered about the prevalence of unpaid overtime in architecture, and what it means for the future of unpaid overtime in the UK and abroad.

A Deep Dive Into the Salaries of NYC Architects

2019-11-18T12:52:00-05:00

Defining what constitutes fair compensation represents perhaps one of the most contentious and divisive workplace issues roiling the architectural profession in the contemporary era. Whether it’s the spirited conversations surrounding unpaid and underpaid internship culture, the fight for equal pay regardless of gender, increasing pushes for unionization in architecture and aligned professions, or the popularization of the four-day workweek, the news is heavy with compensation discourse.

Not only that, but views on proper, fair, and equitable compensation vary widely by practice, firm type, and even among managers themselves, fueling uncertainty and secrecy that ultimately does little to help the average employee.

To help lend an element of transparency to these conversations, Archinect initiated the Architecture Salary Poll in 2013 to provide an anonymous forum for architectural workers to list their compensation figures. Over the years, we have collected thousands of submissions...

They offered you the job! Now here's how to negotiate for the position you actually want

2016-09-15T11:52:00-04:00

From salary to benefits to title, what are some specific guidelines to getting the best working conditions you can in the process of being hired? Distilled from Archinect's research, here's a starter-kit to negotiating with employers.

An expert's thoughts on how to negotiate, at any point in your career

2016-09-06T11:59:00-04:00

After a few intense years of late nights and long days, you’re now ready to embark on even more years of late nights and long days in the form of your next job. However, you do have some say in your working conditions. How should an architect negotiate the terms of their new position to create the ideal environment?