Construction job openings rise to end 2025

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Construction job openings continued to bounce back in December, with 292,000 unfilled positions for which employers were actively hiring, according to a Thursday release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The industry counted 8,000 more […]

Repricing Risk: How Inflation and Tariffs Are Reshaping Construction Insurance

For contractors, higher costs show up as tighter margins and delayed starts. For underwriters, they show up as a new exposure curve that’s harder to predict and more expensive to insure. What once was a straightforward pricing exercise based on historical loss data and replacement cost has become a constant recalibration of volatility, supply-chain uncertainty […]

All But Five States Had Construction Unemployment Rates Below 8% in December 2025

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5—The national December 2025 not seasonally adjusted construction unemployment rate was 5.0%, a 0.2% decrease from December 2024, according to a state-by-state analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data released by Associated Builders and Contractors. The analysis found that 60% of states (30) had lower estimated construction unemployment rates over the same period, 17 had […]