Occupation / job
Construction Managers
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
The $114,990 midpoint is $5,414 a month above the $50,020 typical American job, which puts Construction Managers near the ceiling of published federal wage data. Everything at this level is gated, and the gate is usually years long.
380,360 people work as Construction Managers — large enough that the occupation is always hiring somewhere and always losing people somewhere else. Constant demand is security; it is rarely leverage.
These posts suit people who can hold responsibility for an operation and its people at the same time, in organisations small enough that both land on one desk.
No verified preparation time is on file for Construction Managers. The wage survey behind every figure on this page asks employers what they pay, not what they required, so the honest answer here is that we do not know.
Who should not do this
$63,090 separates the bottom quarter of Construction Managers at $88,550 from the top quarter at $151,640. At a 1.7x ratio the midpoint is a weak guide to your own first year — find out which end you would be entering at.
The bottom quarter of this field earns $88,550 — $42.57 an hour, $38,530 above the $50,020 national midpoint. When even the worst-paid quarter of Construction Managers is this far ahead, the barrier to entry is doing the work of keeping it there.
Avoid it if you need the authority to match the accountability; in operations of this size it rarely does.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 380,360 is a headcount of the employed, which is a numerator without a denominator — everyone who qualified and never got hired is missing from it, and we will not estimate them to complete a percentage.
What the spread tells you
A ratio of 1.7x — $88,550 to $151,640 — is wide enough that specialising inside Construction Managers pays measurably. $114,990 is the middle of a range you can move within.
Put in money rather than ratios: $88,550 at the 25th percentile, $114,990 at the midpoint, $151,640 at the 75th. $63,090 separates the quarter of Construction Managers at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
The 75th percentile is $151,640. Reaching it from the $114,990 midpoint is $36,650 a year; reaching it from the $88,550 that the bottom quarter of Construction Managers earn is $63,090.
$36,650 separates $114,990 from the $151,640 top quarter, while only $26,440 separates it from $88,550. The range leans upward, which means the middle of Construction Managers has more room above it than a symmetric reading of the median would suggest.
Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $42.57 at the bottom quarter, $55.28 at the midpoint, $72.90 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.
What these figures are, and what they are not
This is payroll data: it comes from employers, about people they employ. Anyone doing the work of Construction Managers for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $114,990 describes them.
The hourly number on this page is $114,990 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Construction Managers, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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