What should you be earning?

Use this page as the starting point for salary guides, survey insight and architecture pay context. For role-by-role ranges, use the detailed salary guide.

Start with the role guide closest to your position, then compare salary with responsibility, location, portfolio fit and current live architecture jobs.

Use it to sense-check salary bands before hiring. The right range still depends on seniority, project type, scarcity of skills and how quickly you need to hire.

The salary survey adds extra market context. You can review the salary survey results alongside the role guides.

Yes. We can talk through pay, hiring demand, offer positioning and next moves in architecture recruitment. You can contact Architecture Social.

Write down the responsibilities, project stages, working pattern, normal hours, benefits and support attached to the offer. Compare those details with the relevant published band. Ask which parts of the role the practice expects you to handle independently and how progression will be reviewed.

Start with the work the person will own, the experience needed and the support available. Use the relevant role and location as a reference, then agree a realistic advertised range. Explain what would distinguish someone at different points in that range before interviewing.

No. The pathway compares published benchmarks for different roles. It does not predict your next offer or an automatic pay rise. Discuss the change in responsibility, the evidence needed and the timing of a review with the practice.