WORKFORCE INTELLIGENCE LAB · Construction Labor Shortage Index · Updated 2026-06-05

Construction labor shortage in Georgia.

How tight is construction hiring in Georgia? AlphaHire normalizes open construction roles against the state's population to measure demand against the available workforce — not raw job-post volume.

60/100 Elevated pressure #21 of 51 states 4.08 posts / 100k residents
60
Open Role Pressure Index
+13 vs national avg
#21
National rank
of 51 states
4.1
Posts per 100k residents
Population-normalized
450
Construction job posts
Tracked in Georgia
The reading

What 60/100 means for hiring in Georgia.

Georgia ranks #21 of 51 for construction hiring pressure, with an Open Role Pressure Index of 60 — above the national reading of 47. Employers posted 450 construction roles in Georgia, or 4.08 per 100,000 residents. Demand is building faster than supply in several role families. Compensation and time-to-fill are trending the wrong way.

The heaviest demand is concentrated in Mechanical / HVAC, Superintendents, Electricians. Because this index normalizes by population, it surfaces where the open-role burden is heaviest relative to the people available to fill it — a different and more operationally useful signal than which states simply post the most jobs.

Demand by role family

Where Georgia's construction hiring is concentrated.

Mechanical / HVAC
73
Superintendents
56
Electricians
43
Civil / Infrastructure
39
Data Center Construction
34

Construction job posts in Georgia by role family, from AlphaHire's job-posting dataset. Counts are directional and refreshed continuously.

Methodology

How the index is built.

The Construction Labor Shortage Index is a directional workforce-intelligence product from the AlphaHire Workforce Intelligence Lab. U.S. construction job postings are deduplicated, classified by construction relevance, assigned to a state, and normalized against the latest U.S. Census resident-population estimates:

open_roles_per_100k = construction_job_posts / state_population × 100,000

Every state's value is percentile-ranked into a 0–100 Hiring Competition Index and classified by severity: Critical (85–100), Severe (75–84), Elevated (60–74), Tightening (45–59), Manageable (below 45). Built on a 3,743,416-row job-posting dataset; 12,452 U.S. construction roles classified.

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Adjacent states by pressure.

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