Construction companies helped to hammer together another strong month for the U.S. job market. The Labor Department reported Friday that construction firms added 39,000 jobs in March — a remarkably ...

Construction hiring cooled in February as contractors tapped the brakes on adding staff. Industry payrolls slipped by 11,000 ...

The rate of new energy-related construction jobs last year outpaced and nearly doubled the rate of overall construction job growth, the U.S. Dept. of Energy found in its latest U.S. Energy and ...

Construction job openings in early spring fell by 38,000, which experts called a sign of slowing demand for labor. There were 248,000 job openings in construction on the last day of March, an ...

WASHINGTON — The construction industry reported 292,000 job openings on the final day of December, according to an analysis by Associated Builders and Contractors of data from the US Bureau of Labor ...

U.S. contractors had 231,000 open positions on the last day of January, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Good news for construction workers: You’re hired. Jobs in construction grew by 23,000, including 800 jobs added in residential construction, in June, the Labor Department said on Friday. Over the last ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Construction workers on a jobsite in San Francisco, Calif. on Sept. 5, 2025. (Justin Sullivan via Getty Images) This story was ...