Of the 460 architecture professionals employed in Alaska, 360 work in Anchorage. There has been a 38% decline in the number of architecture professionals in Anchorage between the years 2006 and 2010. As the employment for architecture professionals in Anchorage has decreased, overall employment in Anchorage has increased.

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Salaries for architecture professionals in Anchorage have increased. In 2010 Anchorage architecture professionals earned an average yearly salary of $70,783. Four years earlier in 2006, the average salary for architecture professionals in Anchorage was $62,477 per year. This growth is slower than the salary trend for all careers in Anchorage.

Architecture professionals in Anchorage make a median yearly salary of $66,953. The 10% of architecture professionals in the lowest pay bracket earn less than $45,040 per year, while those in the highest pay bracket earn approximately 133% higher salaries.

On average architecture professionals in Anchorage earn salaries that are higher than the salaries earned by other professionals in Anchorage.

Many of Anchorage's architecture professionals are graduates of the only accredited architecture school in the city.

Anchorage's architecture school offers one architecture degree and certificate program.

In 2010 approximately 18 students completed architecture courses.