First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers

First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers pays $79,920 at the midpoint, 60% above the $50,020 national figure. Premiums that size are rationed by something; find out what before the salary does your thinking for you.

812,210 people are employed as First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers, which puts it among the largest occupations in the United States. At this scale you are never short of a vacancy and never scarce, and the second fact is why the first one is cheap.

Supervising trades suits people who can run a programme, a crew and an inspection at once, and who came up through the tools rather than around them.

No verified preparation time is on file for First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers. 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.

A quarter earn below $63,400 and a quarter above $101,460: a 1.6x ratio, $38,060 between the ends. That is an ordinary working spread, which also means experience and location explain most of it and there is no shortcut through the middle.

The bottom quarter of First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers earns $63,400 or more — $13,380 clear of the $50,020 national midpoint. Three quarters of the field is well paid and the last quarter is still paid better than most of the country.

Avoid it if you could not carry responsibility for other people’s safety on a site you do not fully control.

There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 812,210 people employed as First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers; it did not count the people who trained for it and are doing something else, and a rate built without that denominator would be a number we made up.

1.6x between $63,400 and $101,460 is the ordinary shape of an occupation where experience and region both matter and neither dominates. $79,920 is a fair expectation by mid-career, not on day one.

In cash terms the middle half of First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers runs $63,400 to $101,460 — $38,060 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $79,920.

Between $63,400 and $101,460 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $79,920. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $21,540; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $38,060.

From $79,920 it is $16,520 down to the bottom quarter and $21,540 up to the top. The upper half of the range is the longer one, which is the ordinary shape for work where experience compounds.

Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $30.48 at the bottom quarter, $38.42 at the midpoint, $48.77 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.