First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Read the ladder vertically: each row is the wage of the First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers worker at that point in the distribution, so $100,200 at the 75th percentile means three quarters of the occupation earns less. Figures BLS cannot publish appear as n/p, and its top code prints as $239,200+.

Employment and concentration

With 806,080 jobs nationally, First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers make up 0.52% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: Texas alone holds 89,960 of those jobs, the top three states hold 29.0%, and the deepest concentration sits in Wyoming (location quotient 2.41, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $62,400 at the 25th percentile, $78,690 at the middle, $100,200 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $75,400, a ratio of 2.5 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

New Jersey posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $103,850, and Texas the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers stands number 45 by employment and number 217 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Construction and Extraction Occupations, the group median wage is $54,660 across 60 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 44% more than its group median, and it supplies 12.7% of the group's 6,361,730 jobs. In 23 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $78,690, 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

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 31,520 jobs, 3.9% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 393 metros BLS publishes for this occupation: where the jobs are, then where the money is, with the pay ranking restricted to metros employing at least 500 people in this occupation to keep small samples out of the lead.

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, $38,350 a year, against $128,030 in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. The lowest-paying large metro and the highest are both real markets for this occupation; the difference between them is the geography premium, or penalty, in cash terms.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median annual wage of $78,690 works out to $6,558 a month before taxes, $3,027 per biweekly paycheck, and $1,513 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($62,400) to the 75th ($100,200) is worth $37,800 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Run the median through the paycheck calculator for a take-home estimate in your state, compare an offer against your current pay with the salary calculator, and check whether a raise actually beats prices with the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $86,559 would sit between the median ($78,690) and the 75th percentile ($100,200), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $62,400, is $16,290 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Construction and Extraction Occupations

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