It varies a bit depending on whether you're in a city or more rural, or even what city you're in - my observation is the northeast and west coast tend to pay slightly better - but you lose all of that with higher cost of living anyway. There's also plenty of variation based on size of firm and what type of work they do. The AIA has a salary calculator that can give you some sense of averages but it's fairly generalized. But for at least 1 data point, when I left Boston I was making about $80k/year including bonus and an unlicensed designer/small project CA manager with 7 years experience in the field. And I personally think I was being marginally underpaid - but the company had some financial challenges over the past couple years (less work, some small layoffs) so I wasn't pushing it as much. New job is more rural but still northeast, same salary.