SALARIES ARE GROWING IN PERU’S ARCHITECTURE INDUSTRY

SALARIES ARE GROWING IN PERU’S ARCHITECTURE INDUSTRY

The world of architect in Peru is booming. According to Gestion, Peru’s leading online financial and business magazine, architecture is the second fastest growing and best paying industry after medicine.

In Gestion’s June 3, 2016 publication, it outlines, in spreadsheet format, the universities and specialties that have proven to pay the highest wages due to market shifts. Architecture has jumped to second place beating geology and engineering that are traditionally high paying industries.

Peru’s architectural renaissance is largely due to the country’s focus on commercial plazas and malls. More and more Peruvians are climbing out of poverty having disposable income to go shopping and to the movies. In the last three years two-mega malls where built in Chiclayo located at the northern region of Peru and another in Juliaca in the province of Puño. Both malls are first of their kind in the region and have created a litany of external benefits serving as anchors for the creation of jobs and housing complexes.

Gestion magazine indicated that the top architects earn up to 5,000 soles, which is double the national average of common professional architects. To put that into perspective, Peru’s minimum wage is 750 Soles equivalent to $268 US Dollars.

In a survey conducted among the highest paid architects in Peru include the senior architects of the largest firms:

• Bernardo Fort Brescia of Arquitectonica International Corporation

• Ricardo Martin de Rossi of Pragma Architects

• Jordi Puig of Puig Architects

• Ada Mejia Paima of Real Plaza

• Frederick Cooper Llosa director and founderr of ARKINKA magazine

• Oscar Borasino of Borasino Architects

• Juan Carlos Doblado of Doblado architects

• José Orrego of METROPOLIS Architects

• Sandra Barclay and Jean Pierre Crousse of Barclay & Crousse Architects

• Alfredo Benavides Fett and Cynthia Watmough Vega of Benavides y Watmough Architects

• Vivian Nathan and Verónica Pereryra of NATHANPEREYRA architects

According to our survey these top architects each earn between 9,000-10,000 Nuevos Soles per month equivalent to $2,773- $3,081 making them representative of the highest paid architects of Peru.

Peru is growing fast and the architects are shaping its future.