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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…