Seasonally adjusted construction employment increased from June 2018 to June 2019 in 42 states, declined in eight states and remained unchanged in the District of Columbia, an AGC analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data released on Friday showed.
There were 369,000 job openings in construction at the end of May, not seasonally adjusted, a jump of 90,000 (32%) from May 2018, and the highest total for May since the series began in December 2000, BLS reported on July 9 in its latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) release.
July 18, 2019
Seasonally adjusted construction employment rose from May 2018 to May 2019 in 39 states and the District of Columbia, declined in 10 states and remained unchanged in Kansas, an AGC analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data released today showed.
June 24, 2019
Contractors' bid prices dipped in May, while materials and service input costs were flat for the month, based on the latest producer price indexes (PPIs).
June 18, 2019
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June 11, 2019
Construction spending totaled $1.299 trillion at a seasonally adjusted annual rate in April, equal to the upwardly revised March rate but down 1.2% from April 2018, the Census Bureau reported this week. The year-to-date total for January-April combined was 0.2% higher than in the same months of 2018.
June 05, 2019
The "value of new construction starts in April fell 15% [at] a seasonally adjusted annual rate, pulling back following the 16% hike that was reported in March," Dodge Data & Analytics reported on Wednesday.
May 24, 2019
Seasonally adjusted construction employment rose from April 2018 to April 2019 in 43 states and declined in seven states and the District of Columbia, an AGC analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data released on Friday showed.
May 22, 2019
Contractors appear to be closing the gap between rising input costs and bid prices, based on the latest Producer Price indexes (PPIs). The PPI for new nonresidential building construction—a measure of the price that contractors say they would charge to build a fixed set of buildings—increased 1.4% in April from March and 5.6% year-over-year (y/y) from April 2018, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported on Thursday.
May 13, 2019
Nonfarm payroll employment in April increased by 263,000, seasonally adjusted, from March and by 2,620,000 (1.8%) year-over-year (y/y) from April 2018, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported.
May 06, 2019
