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

Construction labor shortage in Nevada.

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

84/100 Severe pressure #9 of 51 states 5.17 posts / 100k residents
84
Open Role Pressure Index
+37 vs national avg
#9
National rank
of 51 states
5.2
Posts per 100k residents
Population-normalized
165
Construction job posts
Tracked in Nevada
The reading

What 84/100 means for hiring in Nevada.

Nevada ranks #9 of 51 for construction hiring pressure, with an Open Role Pressure Index of 84 — above the national reading of 47. Employers posted 165 construction roles in Nevada, or 5.17 per 100,000 residents. Hiring demand is running well ahead of available applicants. Sourcing should start before roles are formally open.

The heaviest demand is concentrated in Superintendents, Mechanical / HVAC, 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 Nevada's construction hiring is concentrated.

Superintendents
31
Mechanical / HVAC
26
Electricians
16
Civil / Infrastructure
13
Project Managers
10

Construction job posts in Nevada 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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