Compensation
Senior PM base compensation trend
$178K Senior PM base · national
+25% 20222023202420252026
Directional index from AlphaHire compensation intelligence — market positioning bands, not spot wages.
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Construction Workforce Intelligence
AlphaHire tracks labor availability, compensation pressure, hiring demand, project activity, and workforce capacity across construction markets throughout the United States.
The Shift
The labor market has changed.
For decades, construction companies could assume labor would be available when projects were awarded. That assumption no longer holds.
Today, many contractors are competing for the same electricians, project managers, estimators, superintendents, and field leaders. In some markets, workforce capacity has become the primary constraint on growth.
Where the shortage is most acute Talent Scarcity Index · Q2 2026
Ashburn, VAData centers
93
Phoenix, AZSemiconductor + data centers
90
Columbus, OHData centers
89
Dallas, TXData centers + industrial
88
Austin, TXSemiconductor
86
Talent Scarcity Index — a 0–100 composite of demand, supply, compensation velocity, and counteroffer activity. Directional.
The Intelligence Framework
Monitoring the Labor Shortages
Five leading indicators combine to reveal where labor shortages, compensation pressure, and workforce constraints are most likely to impact construction projects.
01
Labor Availability
How many qualified workers are actually available?
02
Hiring Demand
Which markets and roles are seeing the highest hiring activity?
03
Compensation Pressure
Where are wages rising fastest?
04
Project Activity
What projects are increasing workforce demand?
05
Workforce Capacity
Can local labor supply support future growth?
The Three Questions
Why Skilled Labor Is Getting Harder to Find
Construction growth depends on three things: projects, power, and people. The challenge is that all three are becoming harder to secure.
01
What Is Being Built?
Data centers, manufacturing facilities, infrastructure projects, power generation, and major commercial developments — the demand that sets the workforce in motion.
Open the Data Center Pipeline →02
Can It Be Powered?
Power infrastructure, grid expansion, substations, transmission, and interconnection capacity — the constraint that decides what actually gets energized.
Open the Power Grid Pipeline →03
Can It Be Staffed?
Labor availability, workforce shortages, compensation pressure, and hiring competition — increasingly the binding constraint on whether the work can be delivered at all.
Open the Skilled Labor Pipeline → Why It Matters
Everybody is fighting over the same people.
By the time labor shortages become obvious, projects are already competing for the same people, compensation has already moved, and critical roles are already harder to fill.
Signal-to-awareness lag
Government labor reports
30–90+ days behind
AlphaHire signals
as conditions emerge
AlphaHire tracks labor availability, hiring competition, compensation pressure, and project activity to help organizations understand where workforce capacity is becoming constrained.
Intelligence Areas
The forces shaping construction labor.
Each system tracks a different force reshaping construction labor — what's being built, what can power it, and who can staff it.
Flagship · Live
Data Center Pipeline™
Where hyperscale and AI-infrastructure construction is concentrating electrical, mechanical, and mission-critical demand — and which markets are absorbing capacity fastest.
Open the system →Live
Power Grid Pipeline™
Grid expansion, substations, transmission, and interconnection activity — the power buildout that determines what can actually be energized and when.
Open the system →Live
Skilled Labor Pipeline™
Labor availability, workforce shortages, compensation pressure, and hiring competition across the trades and leadership roles construction runs on.
Open the system → Workforce Intelligence Briefing
See where skilled labor is becoming harder to find.
What the data is showing
A live read on the markets we track — compensation movement, regional labor pressure, and senior-PM supply against demand.
Labor pressure
Construction labor pressure index
Composite pressure index (0–100) from workforce scarcity scores across tracked U.S. markets.
Supply / demand
Senior PM availability gap
2.9x Demand-to-supply ratio
Open senior PM roles 100%
Available, qualified PMs 35%
Relative availability gap — directional read from open-role pressure and qualified-candidate fill rates.
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