Top Austin-area architecture firms report $414 million in local design revenue in 2026 ranking

March 14, 2026

The 2026 Austin-area architecture ranking highlights local revenue and employment produced by firms that operate in the region. The top 56 firms that replied to the Austin Business Journal survey reported a combined total exceeding $414 million in design revenue for their Austin offices.

Those 56 firms reported employing 483 licensed architects in the region and providing 1,722 jobs to area workers. The broader online version of the list includes 102 architecture firms, although not every firm supplied local financial details for the ranking.

Firms that did not provide local revenue details still appear on the public online list. Those entries are ordered after the locally ranked firms and are arranged by companywide headcounts, rather than Austin-office revenue.

Combined across the 102 firms featured online, employment exceeds 171,527 people in the United States and globally. For firms that did not answer the survey, the ranking team estimated companywide employment using archival records, filings with the U.S. Department of Labor and other firm-level resources.

The ranking uses a tiered approach based on architecture revenue reported for the Austin office. When two or more firms report identical revenue, the number of licensed architects on staff in the Austin area breaks the tie.

To be included, firms must maintain offices within one of these Central Texas counties: Travis, Williamson, Hays, Bastrop, Caldwell and Burnet. That geographic requirement narrows the list to practices with a direct presence in the Austin region.

The Austin Business Journal said the 2026 compilation reflects changes in how it collects and presents data, working more closely with its network of sister publications under American City Business Journals. That initiative expanded local records and identified thousands of new business entries across the ACBJ footprint during the past year.

The information in the ranking comes from ABJ research and questionnaires provided by the individual firms, material that ABJ was not able to independently verify in every case. Readers should view the numbers as survey-based snapshots of firm-reported and estimated activity in the Austin architecture sector.