City of Buffalo / Pub Wks, Pks & St - Blding Administrative / Principal Architect
Job-title file
Lead staff and operations — set priorities, allocate resources, and oversee program delivery.
1 employees hold this title in Pub Wks, Pks & St - Blding Administrative. Median total compensation for the role is $103,501, above the department median of $78,735.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY area, the median wage for Architects, Except Landscape and Naval — about 330 people — is $95,130. Pub Wks, Pks & St - Blding Administrative pays a median base salary of $86,530 for this role, 9% below that figure — about the 36th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Architects, Except Landscape and Naval across every employer in the Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Pub Wks, Pks & St - Blding Administrative’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Architects, Except Landscape and Naval — about 106,770 people — is $99,280. Pub Wks, Pks & St - Blding Administrative’s median base salary is 13% below that national figure, about the 35th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY range relative to the national one.
Median total compensation for this role at Pub Wks, Pks & St - Blding Administrative is $103,501, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.
Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 2 jurisdictions. See Principal Architect across all of City of Buffalo →
Median total compensation for comparable Principal Architectroles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.
Record list
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Principal Architect/Pub Wks, Pks & St - Blding Administrative
Source-specific fields
Colin Mcdermid holds the role of Principal Architect at Pub Wks, Pks & St - Blding Administrative within General Government Support. In 2026, their total compensation was $103,501.