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Online Landscape Designer Schools
(Study from home, on your own schedule.)
Campus Schools for Landscape Designers
California
Vermont
Info by State for Landscape Designers
Online Landscape Designer Schools
(Study from home, on your own schedule.)
Campus Schools for Landscape Designers
California
Vermont
Info by State for Landscape Designers
Landscape Designer Schools, Salaries, and Job Data
Job Numbers and Growth
Landscape designers hold about 28,000 positions nationally. As an occupation, this career is ranked very low for unemployment rate. About 2% of employees could not obtain a job in 2008.
Area Job Conditions
Jobs in this career are most numerous in York (Pennsylvania), San Luis Obispo (California), and Seattle (Washington), and least common in Fort Worth (Texas), Detroit (Michigan), and Las Vegas (Nevada).
Salaries vary the US, with the highest being found in Dallas (Texas), San Luis Obispo (California), and Riverside (California). The lowest salaries for this job are in Peoria (Illinois), Little Rock (Arkansas), and Tucson (Arizona).
Training and Education
Getting a bachelor's degree will improve one'schance of landing a job in this field. Landscape designers with at least a bachelor's degree are 88% of the total. Approximately 10% of workers started college, but did not pursue a bachelor's degree. High school was sufficient education for 2% of people in this field. Recommended schools are shown in the column to the right; request information from them to help you decide which if any could help you with this career.
Part-Time Work and Self-Employment
Approximately, 6% of landscape designers work part-time. In this field, about 19% work for themselves.
Landscape Designers: An Introductory Video
Landscape Designers Around the Country
In the list below, each metro area is rated for the relative popularity of landscape designers compared to other locations (that is, jobs per population). Single or double up or down arrows indicate the relative popularity in that location. Within each state listing, metro areas are sorted by the actual number of jobs for landscape designers.
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
Nevada
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Virginia
Washington
Wisconsin
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