Landscape Architects
In short: today's best AI models could do about 49% of this job's working time (projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index) if the work were set up for them, and about 78% by the end of 2028 if progress keeps its long-run pace. The people and hands-on work, about 22% of the time, stays with people.
Plan and design land areas for projects such as parks and other recreational facilities, airports, highways, hospitals, schools, land subdivisions, and commercial, industrial, and residential sites.
19,600 people do this job in the US. $79,870 a year.
A typical 40-hour week
Not yet reviewed task by task- AI could take on19 h
- A person checks AI's work0 h
- Desk work AI can't do yet12 h
- Stays with people9 h
Landscape Architects, now: of a 40-hour week, AI could take on 19 hours, 0 hours become checking its work, 12 hours are desk work it can't do yet, and 9 hours stay with people.
The largest pieces: Prepare site plans, specifications, or cost estimates for land development (about 4 h); Integrate existing land features or landscaping into designs (about 3 h); Create landscapes that minimize water consumption such as by incorporating drought-resistant grasses or indigenous plants (about 2 h).
Estimates for a typical week of this job, if progress keeps its long-run pace, counting work the best models finish four times in five. Every task is below.
of the working time. Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- 78%
- 19%
- 3%
of the work: Anthropic's measure of what people already bring to Claude at work (2025). It counts help with part of a task, so it can be higher than the share within reach.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
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What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 2.4 work days long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 0%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 5%. Today's estimate: 49%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
Measured use over time
Of the Claude.ai conversations Anthropic sampled and tied to a work task, 0.011% went to this job's tasks in May 2026, the 383rd largest of the 447 jobs that showed up at all; 1 of its 19 tasks showed up. Within each of Anthropic's methods, never across a change: 0.047% to 0.055% (released February and March 2025); 0.027% to 0.03% (August 2025 to February 2026); 0.011% to 0.011% (April to May 2026).
Each release
| Conversations | Share | Rank | Tasks seen |
|---|---|---|---|
| Released February 2025 | 0.047% | 287 of 708 | 5 of 19 |
| Released March 2025 | 0.055% | 255 of 703 | 6 of 19 |
| The week of Aug 4, 2025 (released September 2025) | 0.027% | 333 of 655 | 4 of 19 |
| The week of Nov 13, 2025 (released January 2026) | 0.025% | 357 of 672 | 4 of 19 |
| The week of Feb 5, 2026 (released March 2026) | 0.03% | 333 of 677 | 4 of 19 |
| April 2026 (released June 2026) | 0.011% | 365 of 434 | 1 of 19 |
| May 2026 (released June 2026) | 0.011% | 383 of 447 | 1 of 19 |
Measured, not estimated: Anthropic's samples of Claude.ai conversations, each tied by a model to an O*NET task, from the Anthropic Economic Index. It says where Claude's use goes, not how much of this job's working time it covers, so it is not on the same scale as the reach above. The releases differ in their sample, their classifier and the smallest share they report (the June 2026 file rounds each task to a hundredth of a percent, so a smaller task reads as none), which is why a change of method starts a new line. At least 96% of each older release's task-tied use matched this site's tasks, and all of the newest. Claude.ai only, so use through other tools and other companies' models is not in it. Every job ranked.
Robots and the physical work
Anthropic rates 10% of this job's working time as physical work. For 0% of the working time, a robot has been shown doing most of the task somewhere. 0.00 of 3.
- Not physical 90%
- No robot shown 10%
Anthropic's rating, not this site's estimate: Claude Opus 5, searching the web, rated each physical O*NET task by the kind of setting in which a robot it could cite (deployed, sold or demonstrated) does most of the task, weighted by its own estimate of each task's share of the time (What work can robots do?, September 30, 2026, data CC BY 4.0; every job ranked). A robot shown somewhere is not a robot in your building: cost, setup and safety decide that. The share within reach on this page still counts no body work. The robot behind each rated task is under the task below.
The tasks
Sorted by . 19 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prepare site plans, specifications, or cost estimates for land development.Done daily by most who do it. | 22% | 1.3 work days3.3 h to 4.2 work days | 44%Half by Dec 2026 | |
| Prepare graphic representations or drawings of proposed plans or designs.Done daily by most who do it. | 10% | 6.7 h1.7 h to 3.1 work days | 48%Half by now | |
| Integrate existing land features or landscaping into designs.Done daily by most who do it. | 10% | 5 h1.7 h to 2.1 work days | 73%Half by now | |
| Create landscapes that minimize water consumption such as by incorporating drought-resistant grasses or indigenous plants.Done daily by most who do it. | 8% | 6.7 h2.5 h to 2.1 work days | 76%Half by now | |
| Prepare conceptual drawings, graphics, or other visual representations of land areas to show predicted growth or development of land areas over time.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 8% | 6.7 h2.5 h to 2.5 work days | 69%Half by now | |
| Collaborate with architects or related professionals on whole building design to maximize the aesthetic features of structures or surrounding land and to improve energy efficiency.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 7% | 3.3 h1.3 h to 1.7 work days | Stays with people | |
| Collaborate with estimators to cost projects, create project plans, or coordinate bids from landscaping contractors.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 7% | 3.3 h50 min to 1.3 work days | Stays with people | |
| Analyze data on conditions such as site location, drainage, or structure location for environmental reports or landscaping plans.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 6% | 4.2 h1.7 h to 1.6 work days | 88%Half by now | |
| Develop marketing materials, proposals, or presentations to generate new work opportunities.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 4% | 6.7 h1.7 h to 3.3 work days | 46%Half by Dec 2026 | |
| Confer with clients, engineering personnel, or architects on landscape projects.Done daily by most who do it. | 4% | 50 min25 min to 2.1 h | Stays with people | |
| Develop planting plans to help clients garden productively or to achieve particular aesthetic effects.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 4% | 5 h1.7 h to 1.6 work days | 83%Half by now | |
| Inspect proposed sites to identify structural elements of land areas or other important site information, such as soil condition, existing landscaping, or the proximity of water management facilities.Done more than monthly by most who do it. Robots: no robot shown. Anthropic's rating. | 2% | 3.3 h1.3 h to 1 work day | Stays with people |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
Jobs that share skills with this one
From O*NET's related occupations. Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Architects, Except Landscape and Naval35% now, 90% by 2028
- Environmental Restoration Planners19% now, 71% by 2028
- Architectural and Civil Drafters73% now, 89% by 2028
- Civil Engineers30% now, 74% by 2028
- Sustainability Specialists61% now, 89% by 2028
- First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers29% now, 30% by 2028
Where this job works
The industry groups that employ the most of it (BLS, May 2025).
Where the most of these jobs are
The metro areas with the most people in it (BLS, May 2025).
Questions about this job
- How much of the work of Landscape Architects is within reach of AI now?
- An estimated 49% of the working time is within reach of AI models now and 78% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five (75% to 78% across the three paces the site shows). Within reach means a model could finish work that long at that reliability. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
- Which tasks of Landscape Architects come within reach first?
- Weighted by the time each takes, the tasks with the most within reach now (projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index) are: Prepare site plans, specifications, or cost estimates for land development (44% of the task's time now, 100% by the end of 2028); Integrate existing land features or landscaping into designs (73% of the task's time now, 100% by the end of 2028); and Create landscapes that minimize water consumption such as by incorporating drought-resistant grasses or indigenous plants (76% of the task's time now, 100% by the end of 2028).
- Which tasks of Landscape Architects stay with people?
- Tasks that are people work or body work are not counted as within reach at any date. The largest: Collaborate with architects or related professionals on whole building design to maximize the aesthetic features of structures or surrounding land and to improve energy efficiency; Collaborate with estimators to cost projects, create project plans, or coordinate bids from landscaping contractors; and Confer with clients, engineering personnel, or architects on landscape projects. Together such tasks are about 22% of the working time.
- Do people already use AI for the work of Landscape Architects?
- In the Claude.ai conversations Anthropic sampled for May 2026 and tied to a work task, 0.011% went to this job's tasks, the 383rd largest share of the 447 jobs that showed up; 1 of its 19 tasks appeared. Anthropic's labor market measure puts the share of the job's tasks seen in real Claude use at work at 0%. These are measures of use, not of how much of the work AI could finish, and they cover Claude only.
- Can robots do the physical work of Landscape Architects?
- Anthropic's robot exposure rating (September 2026) finds 10% of the working time is physical work, and that a robot has been shown doing most of the task, somewhere, for 0% of the working time. Its index is 0.00 of 3. A robot shown somewhere is not one in every workplace; this site's own estimates still count no physical work as within reach.
- How is this estimated?
- From the 19 tasks O*NET lists for the occupation, each with an estimated length checked against GDPval and a share of the working time, each classed as desk, people or body work, and METR's measurements of how long a task the best AI models can finish, carried forward to the date from the latest, Claude Mythos Preview (early) in April 2026. Data checked November 10, 2026.
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