Exactly 360 of the 5,930 architecture professionals employed in Washington State, work in Lakewood. There has been a 13% growth in the number of architecture professionals in Lakewood between the years 2006 and 2010. As the employment for architecture professionals in Lakewood has increased, overall employment in Lakewood has also increased.

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In Lakewood, salaries for architecture professionals have increased. Lakewood architecture professionals made $61,910 per year, on average, in 2010. Architecture professionals in Lakewood made a yearly average salary of $59,463, four years earlier in 2006. This growth is slower than the salary trend for all careers in Lakewood.

Architecture professionals make a median salary of $60,247 per year in Lakewood. The 10% of architecture professionals in the lowest pay bracket earn less than $42,430 per year, while those in the highest pay bracket earn approximately 103% higher salaries.

On average architecture professional salaries in Lakewood are higher than salaries earned by their professional counterparts in related professions.

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

Lakewood's architecture schools offer 2 architecture degree and certificate programs.

In 2010 approximately 9 students completed architecture courses.