Construction Managers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Construction Managers offer sit among all 348,330 workers doing this job? The survey top-codes at $239,200+ and withholds unreliable cells, shown as n/p in the table.

Employment and concentration

May 2024 employment stood at 348,330, or 0.23% of the U.S. total. Texas leads the state table with 51,960 jobs; the top three states sum to 33.3% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: Alaska posts a location quotient of 2.21, so a worker there is far more likely to meet a colleague in this field than the national pattern suggests.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $83,480 at the 25th percentile, $106,980 at the middle, $139,330 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $111,830, a ratio of 2.7 to 1. Where a specific job offer lands on that range says more about the role's level than the occupation's headline median does.

Pay by state

Sorted by employment, the table below puts Texas first at 51,960 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, Massachusetts would lead at $147,750. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Construction Managers stands number 105 by employment and number 89 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Management Occupations, the group median wage is $106,980 across 38 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 0% more than its group median, and it supplies 3.2% of the group's 10,966,830 jobs. In 19 of the 50 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $106,980, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX is the largest metro employer with 15,240 jobs, 4.4% of the national total. Employment rank and pay rank are different lists: the second table re-sorts metros with at least 500 jobs in this occupation by mean pay, the floor keeping a handful of workers from posing as a market.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $74,000 a year, against $161,620 in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. That is the metro effect in one line: identical job title, materially different pay, decided mostly by which labor market the job sits in.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

Budget arithmetic on the median: $8,915 a month before tax, $4,115 biweekly, $2,057 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($83,480) to the 75th ($139,330) is worth $55,850 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. To turn any of these gross figures into spendable money, run them through the paycheck calculator; to weigh an offer against your current role, use the salary calculator; to test a raise against prices, the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $117,678 would sit between the median ($106,980) and the 75th percentile ($139,330), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $83,480, is $23,500 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Management Occupations

The occupations BLS groups with this one, by size: Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers, Administrative Services Managers, Food Service Managers, Industrial Production Managers, Human Resources Managers, Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.