I doubt your classmate an architect.
monster.com for architects is useless.
Give your local AIA office your resume to keep on record.
Got one job that way.
This site has job postings.
AIA has job postings.
Find 20 firms in your city you're interested in and mail them your resume. Whether you know if they're hiring or not, you should get a couple responses. Got two jobs that way. This is probably the best route, other than the AIA and periodically looking at firms you like websites (got my current job this way).
The local newspapers, probably not great stuff there.
That's about it.
I seem to recall stumbling on a pretty good resource a while back but can't find it.
Hope that helps.
You're not going to get $75,000 though.

Thanks for the advice. I may do some reserch and keep eyes on the good firms that I will be interested in. But I heard some design firms people actually make very little money. Is it true?

She is an architect in a relative not very expensive city. That's why it blows me away. The housing in my city is far more expensive, but I make much less.

pollen hit on them all. I am currently job searching, I might try that monster.com route, what can it hurt? Definetly send resumes to firms you are interested in without advertised positions, they will still hire you, that is how I got my last job, turns out they didn't have time to put out an ad and were glad that I fell into their lap.

How much experince does Ms. $75,000 have?

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I think there are big ranges in salary even for architects. It's really depends on how you negotiate.

When I had about 4 years of experience (about 5 years ago) I did a job search in which I put my resume on Monster, and I also used one of those services that transmits your resume to a lot of recruiters and large companies for a fee of about $40. I got a lot of calls from recruiters and big companies - many were for uninteresting CAD production jobs, because recruiters often search by keywords and I had a lot of CAD applications listed on my resume at the time.
But I did get a lot of interviews and offers including some for "architectural designer" jobs that did pay in the 60k - 80k range even though I wasn't registered at the time and had only a few years of experience. Often these were for in-house architect positions in large retail conglomerates, office planning departments of very large companies (such as banks, pharmaceutical companies, and even a large airline), kitchen planning for high-end residential contractors and developers, and architect positions in huge engineering firms. A lot of these were pretty unglamorous, not-very-interesting jobs laying out cubicles and/or store departments - not the kind of thing most of us go looking for. Most of them were in parts of the US in which I didn't especially want to live. I did eventually take a somewhat lower-salary job in a large architecture firm that was arranged through a recruiter. The recruiter was very helpful in negotiating a salary that was at the top of the range for my experience level for firms in that region at the time, and he helped me to get a good amount of vacation and a profit sharing deal that I may not have been able to negotiate on my own. It's in recruiters' best interests to negotiate the highest salaries possible because the firms pay them based on a percentage of the jobs' salary. But: firms that have to resort to working with recruiters are often in less desirable locations and/or not doing especially interesting/appealing work.

or don't have time?
in other professions, it is a way for good companies to find good employees perhaps? my brother's friend is a headhunter, I will ask.

eeayeeayo, thanks for the information. I think it may also be true like Strawbeary said, the company is too busy to do everything themselves.
The company my friend found is a big architectual firm, who used to be quite famous. I think it's a good idea to use recruiter, when you don't really have time to do research yourself. Working full time, and have to take care of the baby at night, I found it even ijard to find time to put resume together, not mention to do a thorough research of different firms, and watch when they are hiring. I may give it a try too.

How do you go about finding a headhunter?

you don't really go about looking head hunters. they find you... hence the name "head-hunter". seriously.

if you want to get scalped, try floating your resume around somewhere that a ton of people have access to it.

When you said classmate, I assumed this was right out of college.
So $75,000 is not outlandish although it is impressive.
But eeyeoueueoue is right. Monster always has stuff like inhouse architect for Crate 'N Barell or Target or the CIA.
If you don't mind this then by all means . . .
Sounds like if you have a child, working on groundbreaking stuff might not be your top priority. Monster and headhunters will get you in a different caliber of place but probably more money will follow.
I'm curious what a "use to be quite famous" firm is.

I did it, posted on Monster.com. Got a call from recruiter, but a development company, seems not very interesting. I will waite for the big fish come up someday.
I don't like to reveal the name of the firm. But I'm sure you know the name of of "the once famous firm" who specialised in hotel. It's a high profile architecture firm for sure, not in house for other big coorperate.