Nonresidential Construction Employment Expands Despite the Pandemic

The construction industry added 26,000 jobs in September, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data released today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. During the last five months, the industry has added 689,000 jobs, recovering approximately 64% of the jobs lost since the start of the pandemic.

Nonresidential construction employment added 4,000 jobs on net in September alone. Two subsegments, nonresidential building and nonresidential specialty trade, experienced employment gains, adding 5,300 and 2,100 jobs, respectively. Heavy and civil engineering partially offset those gains, however, losing 3,400 jobs on net.

The construction unemployment rate was 7.1% in September, up 3.9 percentage points from the same time last year.

Nonresidential construction employment expanded in September as some projects that had been postponed or interrupted came back to life, however, even in May and June nonresidential construction added more than 228,000 and 76,000 jobs on net, respectively.

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