The Construction Jobs Plan

So our first headline, like we said, is actually from construction management, as you might think it would be, because that's part of the CIOB.

And the headline is, Construction Professionals Want More Than High Salaries, Survey Finds.

And this, like I said, it's part of a, or the information is from a survey by CAOB into salary and market trends within construction.

And what they've found, top level, is that people seem to be getting paid more at a certain level within construction, but they don't just want salary.

Salary isn't just their main or sole focus, should I say.

There's a whole range.

host of other things that they look for when they're looking for new roles or potential roles or new companies that they can they can work with um so what is your uh how have you found this what what have you found interesting if anything is there anything that sticks out for you

Yeah, there's a few bits.

I guess caveats first for anyone listening to this that hasn't yet had time to dive into the report.

So as Pete rightly points out, the respondents to this are people at management level.

So we need to be careful that this isn't average salaries in the sector have increased uniformly or kind of construction's performance relative to other parts of the economy is one thing to caveat.

Yeah.

Also, the CIOB are very honest, actually.

They run this every couple of years.

I think it's two years since the last one.

And one of the things that they're clear on is this isn't the same data set.

They're not asking the same people and the same respondents time and again.

And actually, the...

the sort of profile information of respondents skew slightly more senior in this version than in previous ones.

So there is a pretty steep jump in average earnings and so on, and the number of people earning above certain benchmarks.

So I don't think it's as straightforward as to say more senior respondents equals higher salary.

I do think there is something about the uniform trend.

But yeah, worth flagging those two things just before I throw a load of numbers at our dear listeners.

So yeah, the average respondent salary on that was almost 78,000.

Now that was 70,000 two years ago.