Construction Compensation Intelligence.
Role- and market-level compensation benchmarking — base, bonus, total comp, and year-over-year movement — paired with the hiring-competition and scarcity context that determines what it actually takes to close a hire.
Where construction leadership compensation sits.
A directional read across the leadership roles AlphaHire recruits. Compensation is accelerating fastest where supply is thinnest — data center, electrical, and mission-critical markets.
Composite of AlphaHire active-search data, contractor backlog tracking, regional compensation observations, and public construction-spend indicators. Directional by design — calibrated weekly, not a live feed.
Role + market benchmarks.
Each report covers ranges, base-vs-bonus, YoY movement, hiring competition, relocation difficulty, candidate expectations, and time-to-fill.
Electrical Estimator
Base, bonus, and total compensation for electrical estimators across California’s institutional, public-sector, and mission-critical electrical contractors.
View compensation reportData Center Project Manager
Mission-critical PM compensation during Central Ohio’s hyperscale construction boom — base, bonus, per-diem, and the imported-talent premium.
View compensation reportSuperintendent
Field-leadership compensation across DFW data center, industrial, and commercial construction — base, vehicle/per-diem, and bonus.
View compensation reportMechanical Project Manager
Mechanical PM compensation across Phoenix semiconductor, data center, and healthcare construction — base, bonus, and the process-piping premium.
View compensation reportLooking for a market + role not listed? Request a custom compensation briefing → Related: market salary guides · Electrical Compensation Index.
Compensation is what you pay. Competitiveness is whether it closes.
Benchmarks show where compensation sits. The Offer Competitiveness Matrix™ shows whether a specific offer will actually convert the candidate — base anchoring, certainty vs upside, packaging, speed, and counteroffer exposure.
How candidates read the offer
Base anchoring and certainty-vs-upside psychology decide closes more than headline total comp.
Where finalists drop
Pinpoints the structural gaps causing late-stage fallout — and the fix that recovers the close.
Structure, not spend
Most acceptance risk is recovered by repackaging the offer — not by raising the number.
Compensation is one input. See the rest of the market.
Regional Dashboards
See the full labor-market terminal for the markets behind these compensation numbers.
Open dashboardsLabor Scarcity Index
Compensation velocity is a core input to AlphaHire’s proprietary scarcity framework.
View the indexMarket Signals
Contractor expansion and project awards are what move compensation next.
Read the feedBenchmark your roles against the live market.
Request an executive briefing — or engage AlphaHire to execute the search against these conditions.
An executive briefing translates this intelligence into decisions — expansion feasibility, compensation exposure, hiring risk, and workforce planning.
When the decision is made, AlphaHire executes the search — identifying and engaging the passive operators these conditions are hiding.