About our dashboard
The California Construction Employment Dashboard allows users to interact with the latest publicly available data and learn about changing trends in employment, wages, worker characteristics, apprenticeship program participation, and more.
Create a free account to gain access and receive updates as new data and analysis are released.
Create a free account to gain access and receive updates as new data and analysis are released.
Identify key challenges
for ramping up California construction
employment to alleviate the housing crisis
and rebuild after disasters.
Interact with visualizations
of data on employment, earnings,
apprenticeships, and productivity.
Explore data
at the local level and for sub-sectors
and occupations within the broader
construction industry.
Stay on top of changing trends
as new data is released from the Census
Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau
of Economic Analysis, and California
Economic Development Department.
California Construction Employment Dashboard
Interact with visualizations of data on construction employment, wages, worker characteristics and more. Sign up for free instant access to the dashboard and to receive notifications when new data and analysis are released.
Worker misclassification cheats workers, burdens taxpayers, and exacerbates “race to the bottom” conditions
A 2023 study by the Century Foundation found that 13.9 percent of construction workers in California are misclassified as independent contractors.
California investments in construction should promote self-sufficiency and healthy communities, not worker poverty.
Many California construction workers need a raise, recent analyses show. Although official statistics indicate that construction workers earn more per hour on average than other workers, the industry is split into two tiers, one with higher quality jobs a