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Construction Industry Adds 8,000 Jobs in October as Rise in Hourly Wages Tops Overall Private Sector; Spending Increases 0.1 Percent in September

Fri, 11/01/2024 – 12:30 Average Construction Worker Pay Hits $36.23 an Hour, Outpacing Private Sector Total by 18.9 Percent; Outlays Rise for Infrastructure and Data Centers, But Decline for Most Private Nonresidential Categories Construction sector employment rose by 8,000 jobs in October following a small increase in spending in September as the industry hiked hourly…

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Construction Employment Increases In 227 Of 358 Metro Areas From September 2023 To Last Month But Many Firms Struggle To Fill Openings

Tue, 10/29/2024 – 12:14 Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, Texas and Anchorage, Alaska Have Highest Number and Percentage of Job Gains over 12 Months, While New York City and Bloomington, Ill. Experience Worst Year-over-Year Job Losses Construction employment rose in 227, or 63 percent, of 358 metro areas between September 2023 and September 2024, according to an analysis by…

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Construction Employment Increases In 40 States From September 2023 To September 2024, While 24 States Add Jobs From August To This Month

Texas and Alaska Top Lists of Numerical and Percentage 12-Month Gains, While New York and Oregon Lag; Texas and Ohio Post Highest Monthly Increases, While Tennessee and North Dakota Have Worst Losses Construction employment increased in 40 states in September from a year earlier, while 24 states and the District of Columbia added construction jobs between…

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Construction Sector Adds 25,000 Jobs In September As Nonresidential And Residential Job Gains Outpace Overall Rate Of Employment Increase

Average Construction Pay Hits $35.92 an Hour, Topping Private Sector Total by 18 Percent, but Low Unemployment Rate and High Level of Job Openings Show Contractors Seek to Hire Even More Workers Construction sector employment rose by 25,000 jobs in September as both nonresidential and residential contractors added workers at a faster clip than other…

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Construction Employment Grows In 245 Of 358 Metro Areas From August 2023 To August 2024 As Firms Boost Pay To Attract Scarce Workers

Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, Texas and Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina, Hawaii Have Highest Number and Percentage of Year-over-Year Job Gains, While New York City and Duluth, Minn.-Wis. Experience Worst Job Losses Construction employment rose in 245, or 68 percent, of 358 metro areas between August 2023 and August 2024, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America of…

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Construction Spending Dips 0.1 Percent In August As Residential Decline Offsets Mixed Results Among Private And Public Nonresidential Segments

Construction Spending Falls to $2.132 Trillion Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate as Construction Activity is Yet to Start on Many Federally Funded Projects and Multifamily Housing Glut Leads to Reduced Outlays Construction spending inched down by 0.1 percent from July to August as a downturn in single- and multifamily residential building outweighed selective gains in nonresidential…

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Construction Employment Increases In 39 States Between August 2023 And August 2024, While 27 States, D.C. Add Jobs From July To Last Month

Texas and Alaska Top Lists of Numerical and Percentage 12-Month Gains, While Maryland and Maine Lag; Texas and Wyoming Post Highest Monthly Increases, While California and Tennessee Have Worst Losses Construction employment increased in 39 states in August from a year earlier, while 27 states and the District of Columbia added construction jobs between July and…

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Construction Firms Add 34,000 Jobs in August With Gains in All Subsectors as Industry Unemployment Rate Hits Record August Low of 3.2 Percent

Average Construction Pay Hits $35.81 an Hour as Recently Released Survey Results Indicate Firms Would Likely Have Hired Even More Workers if they Could Find Enough Qualified People to Add to their Payrolls The construction sector added 34,000 jobs in August while the industry’s unemployment rate fell to 3.2 percent, the lowest August rate in…

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Construction Spending Slips 0.3 Percent In July With Decreases In Private Projects As New Survey Indicates Worker Shortages Are Worsening

Drop in Spending Likely Caused by the Fact 94 Percent of Construction Firms Report They are Having a Hard Time Finding People to Hire as Construction Spending Falls to an Annual Rate of $2.162 Trillion Construction spending slid 0.3 percent from June to July, pulled down by declines in private residential and nonresidential construction, according…

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New Survey Shows How Nation’s Failure To Invest In Construction Education & Training Programs Makes It Hard For Firms To Build

94 Percent of Construction Firms Report Having a Hard Time Finding Workers to Hire, Undermining Efforts to Build Infrastructure & Other Projects As Industry Calls for Better Federal Workforce Policies The nation’s failure to invest in construction workforce education and training programs is having a real, measurable impact on the country’s ability to build infrastructure…

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