Construction employment increased in 36 states and D.C. from October to November, according to analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America.
Thirteen states recorded construction employment declines and construction employment was unchanged in Kansas.
Compared with February 2020, the last month before the COVID-19 pandemic, only 18 states and D.C. have increased construction employment.
“Construction activity has picked up in recent months but still has not reached the employment levels of early last year in most of the country during what has become a very tight labor market,” stated Ken Simonson, AGC’s chief economist. “If contractors had found enough qualified workers, more states would have recovered fully by now from the pandemic-induced job losses.”
Job openings at the end of October exceeded the number of workers hired into the industry that month, Simonson added.
The full AGC report can be found here.
