The results of a survey of some 350 construction companies signals good news for employees, with wages set to go up by an average of just over 4% before the end of this year.
The survey was conducted by the consulting firm PAS Incorporated and predicts that wage growth so far this year may even see a greater increase towards the end of the year jump.
Based in Saline, Michigan, PAS is nationally known for its compilation of wage, salary, and benefit data. In its annual staff salary survey, the firm notes that while a 4% wage increase is nothing to sneeze at, it is still lower than the 4.6% recorded last year.
The PAS survey comes on the heels of a separate report issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics last month showing that construction wages this spring were up by 4.5% from where they were in early 2024.
That survey, according to a narrative put together by the National Association of Home Builders, gave evidence of a “continued deceleration in the year-over-year wage growth, which peaked at 9.3% in June of 2024.”
Wage growth, in fact, was on a steady upward slope for nearly all of 2021 to 2024, spurred in part, at least early on, by an easing of labor shortages caused by the pandemic economy.
In yet another survey compiled by the site Construction Coverage, it is noted that recent wage growth has been the greatest in parts of New England, the Plains states, and along the West coast.
Wage growth decline was most apparent in most the Midwest, as well as the Deep South and Texas.
June 30, 2025
By Garry Boulard
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