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50+ Construction Workforce Retention and Turnover Statistics for 2026
Construction’s retention game has flipped. Quit rates hit a nine-year low in mid-2025, and February 2026 posted the lowest hiring rate the BLS has tracked since 2000. People aren’t leaving the industry, but they aren’t entering it either. The immigration pipeline that absorbed two decades of demographic pressure has narrowed sharply, and the pipeline of…
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AI Construction Statistics for 2026
Construction AI adoption is growing fast, despite 79% of the industry not yet moving past early testing. Where companies have implemented AI, results depend almost entirely on the quality of data underneath it. With a workforce that needs half a million new workers this year alone and an aging population that compounds the pressure, AI…
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How Contractors Use Revenue Per Person Per Month to Benchmark Staffing Efficiency
The construction labor narrative is dominated by the shortage, with 92% of firms reporting difficulty hiring. Sit in a portfolio review with your CFO and director of operations, though, and a different problem surfaces. Some projects feel busy and look fully staffed but still deliver lower margins than expected. The team is working hard, but…
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How Team Size and Project Duration Change by Build Type and What That Means for Staffing
Skilled trades wages on data center construction sites now run roughly 32% above non-data-center construction work, with specialty roles routinely clearing $250,000. The same crafts on a healthcare project earn meaningfully less. The same crafts on an education project earn even less than that. The labor market has decided the build types aren’t interchangeable for…
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Getting Started with AI for General Contractors
If someone on your leadership team just came back from a conference asking why you’re not using AI yet, take a breath. 79% of the construction industry hasn’t moved past early experimentation, and the contractors who are getting real value from AI didn’t start by buying tools. They started by cleaning up their data. That’s…
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Construction AI Implementation Challenges and Success Rates
The entire tech world is buzzing about AI, and construction is no exception. The hype is everywhere, but the results are lagging behind. 95% of enterprise AI pilots see no measurable return (MIT). That’s a cross-industry number, but construction faces similar hurdles and a few of its own. 45% of firms don’t have a formal…
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Rookie Ratio and How to Balance Experience on Construction Project Teams
Most contractors track headcount and utilization across their projects. Few track the balance of experienced and newer team members. Rookie ratio, the proportion of seasoned people to newer ones on any given project, fills that gap. It’s not a formal industry metric, and that’s part of the problem. A project can be fully staffed by…
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How Contractors Use Revenue Per Person Per Month to Benchmark Staffing Efficiency
Revenue per person per month divides a project’s total revenue by the number of salaried team members assigned to it. It connects two numbers most contractors already have, revenue and headcount, in a way that makes staffing efficiency visible at the project level. The industry tracks utilization rate and labor cost as a percentage of…
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The art and science of construction labor forecasting
You’re at an industry conference, catching up with someone you haven’t seen in years. They’ve just landed three major projects. Good news, right? Except they look exhausted. “We bid these jobs assuming we had the people,” they tell you. “Now we’re scrambling. I have no idea if we can actually deliver.” You win work, but…
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How AI helps contractors build stronger construction project teams
“Team dynamics are really important to us,” says Jamie Miller, Director of Engineering Development at Sellen Construction. “We don’t just throw people on a project without thinking about how they’ll work with each other. We look for strengths that complement each other.” Miller is describing what good team building looks like. The problem is that…
