Nonresidential Construction Employment Declines by 9,000 Despite Impressive January Jobs Report
The construction industry lost 5,000 jobs on net in January, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Overall, the industry has recovered slightly more than one million (91%) of the jobs lost during earlier stages of the pandemic.
Nonresidential construction employment declined by 9,000 positions on net, with all of those losses and more emerging from the heavy and civil engineering subsector, which lost 9,500 jobs. Nonresidential building and nonresidential specialty trade contractors registered minimal job growth, adding 400 and 100 jobs, respectively.