May 2025 Occupational Employment and Wages — 2026-05-15

Construction and extraction occupations had employment of 6.4 million in May 2025, representing 4.1 percent of total national employment, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The largest construction and extraction occupations were construction laborers (1.1 million) and first-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers (812,210). The annual mean wage across all construction and extraction occupations was $65,360, less than the U.S. average wage of $69,770. The Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) program provides employment and wage estimates for about 830 occupations in the nation, states, and approximately 530 areas. National data are available by industry for approximately 410 industry classifications and by ownership across all industries and for the educational services and hospitals industries. This news release features construction and extraction, educational instruction and library, and healthcare practitioners and technical occupations, in addition to largest occupations and public sector occupations. National employment and wage information for all occupations is shown in table 1.