BIM Coordinator Salary 2026,
What BIM Coordinators Actually Earn

How much do bim coordinators make in 2026?

BIM coordinators are counted in the BLS architectural and civil drafters series: OEWS May 2025 gives the SOC 17-3011 national median as $66,150 a year ($31.80 an hour), with the bottom 10% near $46,260 and the top 10% at $99,710. That series is a drafting code, and building information modelling coordination has grown into something meaningfully different from drafting, so coordinators typically sit at and above its midpoint rather than within the drafting body of the distribution. The job is fundamentally about preventing construction problems before they reach the field: federating architectural, structural and mechanical, electrical and plumbing models, running clash detection, chairing coordination meetings where trades resolve conflicts, managing model standards and level of development, producing coordinated fabrication and installation drawings, and increasingly linking the model to programme and quantities. That places the coordinator between design and construction, which is why the role is valued by contractors and specialty trades as well as designers. Pay rises with the technical difficulty of what is coordinated — healthcare, laboratory and data centre projects with dense services sit above commercial fit-out — and with the shift from operating the software to running the coordination process. BIM managers who own standards, staffing and execution planning across projects sit at the top of the band. Employment is projected to grow 4.1% through 2034 with roughly 10,000 openings a year. → Full bim coordinator career guide, career path, credentials & placement →

Note: $66,150 blends every experience level and every setting in this occupation. For pay by level alone, see Pay by Level below.

Published (BLS): BLS OEWS May 2025, SOC 17-3011, United States national estimate. Public, methodologically rigorous, but sampled on a rolling 3-year basis and published ~10 months after collection — so it reflects wages that are already 1–2 years old by the time you read them.

Level and certification medians: distributed across the published BLS percentile range for this SOC code (P10 through P90) according to the credential tiers this occupation actually hires at. They are modeled reference points, not separately surveyed wages.

State and metro figures: modeled — the BLS national median multiplied by the GlobalCybers state wage index, and for metros by the published metro index for that state. They are estimates of local pay, not BLS state or metropolitan-area observations, and are labelled as modeled in the tables below.

No verified placement sample:GlobalCybers does not yet publish a placement median for this role, so no "verified" figure appears anywhere on this page.

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