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Construction Sector Adds 22,000 Employees In August, While Spending Increases In July Despite Downturn In Major Infrastructure Categories
Fri, 09/01/2023 – 12:23 Construction Employment Reaches 7,993,000 amid Strong Demand for Project, Firms Boost Pay to $34.40 an Hour as They Try to Attract a Limited Pool of Qualified Workers with Sector’s Unemployment at 3.9% The construction industry added 22,000 jobs in August, while total construction spending rose 0.7 percent in July, despite a…
Read MoreFlorida builders face down Idalia
As residents and businesses boarded up structures, contractors tied down materials and prepared for flood mitigation. Hurricane Idalia began to whip across Florida’s Gulf Coast Wednesday morning. The National Hurricane Center said the eye of the storm reached Category 4 status with 130 mph winds when it made landfall in Taylor County, the Orlando Sentinel reported.…
Read MoreConstruction Employment Increases In 226 Of 358 Metro Areas Between July 2022 And July 2023 But Firms Still Have 378,000 Open Positions
Wed, 08/30/2023 – 10:23 Dallas-Plano-Irving, Texas, Yuba City, Calif., and Corvallis, Ore. Lead the Nation in Employment Increases; Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, Fla. and Kankakee, Ill. Have the Largest Number and Percent of Job Losses Construction employment increased in 226 of 358 metro areas between July 2022 and July 2023, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of…
Read MoreConstruction Employment Increases in 45 States and D.C. From July 2022 to July 2023, While 27 States and D.C. Add Employees in Latest Month
Fri, 08/18/2023 – 12:37 Texas and Arkansas Top Lists of Year-over-Year Gains, While Colorado, North Dakota Record the Worst Losses; Texas and Nebraska Lead in Monthly Job Increases, While Washington and Maine Experience Largest Declines Construction employment increased in 45 states and the District of Columbia in July from a year earlier, while 27 states added…
Read MoreBid Prices Fall 1.4 Percent as Construction Materials and Services Prices Increase 0.2 Percent in July
Fri, 08/11/2023 – 12:22 Construction Material Prices Remain Mostly Flat in the Month of July; Buy America Rules Remain an Ongoing Challenge for Firms as They Try to Find Materials that Comply The price of materials and services used in nonresidential construction inched up 0.2 percent from June to July, while a government index that…
Read MoreMassive New Department of Labor Davis-Bacon Rule Misses the Mark to Modernize Regulations
Tue, 08/08/2023 – 11:03 Department of Labor Issues Final Rule on the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts Which Covers Labor Standards That Apply to Federal and Federally Assisted Construction Projects Today’s announcement makes some improvements but critically misses an opportunity to improve the wage determination process and further burdens overregulated construction contractors building and upgrading the…
Read MoreConstruction Firms Add 19,000 Jobs In July As Sector’s Unemployment Level Hits 3.9 Percent And Average Sector Pay Increases To $34.24 Per Hour
Fri, 08/04/2023 – 11:43 Construction Employment Reaches 7,791,000 in July as Data Shows Firms Can’t Find Enough Workers to Replace Retiring Workers, Association Officials Call for New Investments in Construction Education The construction industry added 19,000 jobs in July even as the sector’s unemployment rate increased, according to an analysis of new government data the Associated General…
Read MoreConstruction Employment Increases In 221 Of 358 Metro Areas From June 2022 To June 2023 As Firms Struggle To Find Qualified Workers
Wed, 08/02/2023 – 16:56 Dallas-Plano-Irving, Texas and Corvallis, Ore. Experience Largest Number and Percentage of Gains; St. Louis, Mo.-Ill. and Monroe, Mich. Have Most Extensive Construction Job Losses During the Past Year Construction employment increased in 221, or 62 percent, of 358 metro areas between June 2022 and June 2023, according to an analysis by the Associated General…
Read MoreConstruction Spending Grows 0.5 Percent In June To An Annual Rate Of $1.94 Trillion As Demand For Residential & Nonresidential Construction Rises
Solid Gains in Commercial, Manufacturing and Office Construction Offset Declines in Power and Highway and Street Construction Between May and June as Association Officials Call on Feds to Clarify Project Regs Total construction spending increased by 0.5 percent in June driven by increases in most residential and nonresidential construction segments, according to an analysis of…
Read MoreConstruction Employment Increases In 45 States From June 2022 To June 2023, While 33 States Add Construction Employees From May To June
Texas and Arkansas Top List of Yearly Gains, While Missouri, North Dakota, and Vermont Have Worst Losses; Texas and South Dakota Lead in Monthly Job Increases, While Virginia and Iowa Experience Largest Declines Construction employment increased in 45 states in June from a year earlier, while 33 states added construction jobs from May to June, according…
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