Summary
AIA Contract Documents provides no specific guidelines or recommendations on architect compensation, fees, salaries, or wages. Instead, examples of compensation methods are included in documents like B101-2017, B102-2017, B103-2017, and B104-2017, covering standard agreements between Owners and Architects, including complex and abbreviated project scopes.
AIA Contract Documents does not publish any guidelines regarding architects’ compensation and makes no recommendations about how architects or architectural firms are compensated. Samples of some of the methods that may be used to calculate compensation are provided in the instructions for the following documents:
B101™–2017, Standard Form of Agreement Between Owner and Architect;
B102™–2017, Standard Form of Agreement Between Owner and Architect without a Predefined Scope of Architect’s Services;
B103™–2017, Standard Form of Agreement Between Owner and Architect for a Complex Project; and
B104™–2017, Standard Abbreviated Form of Agreement Between Owner and Architect