# US states by construction payroll employment, August 2026

All 48 values come from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2026-08, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `payroll_employment_construction`
- Unit: jobs
- Definition: Number of jobs on construction payrolls in the month, seasonally adjusted, from the Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The supersector covers construction of buildings, heavy and civil engineering construction, and specialty trade contractors.
- Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Employment Statistics, State and Area: all employees, construction, statewide, seasonally adjusted (SMS, state, 000002000000001) (https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/sm/sm.data.62.Construction.Current)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/bureau-of-labor-statistics
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Current Employment Statistics, State and Area: all employees, construction, statewide, seasonally adjusted (SMS, state, 000002000000001). https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/sm/sm.data.62.Construction.Current. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/construction-jobs/us-states

| Rank | Place | jobs |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Texas | 924,900 |
| 2 | California | 886,200 |
| 3 | Florida | 656,700 |
| 4 | New York | 381,100 |
| 5 | North Carolina | 297,300 |
| 6 | Ohio | 278,200 |
| 7 | Pennsylvania | 261,200 |
| 8 | Illinois | 254,100 |
| 9 | Georgia | 232,800 |
| 10 | Arizona | 228,200 |
| 11 | Virginia | 227,300 |
| 12 | Washington | 216,000 |
| 13 | Michigan | 199,200 |
| 14 | Colorado | 186,400 |
| 15 | Indiana | 181,300 |
| 16 | Massachusetts | 167,900 |
| 17 | Tennessee | 166,200 |
| 18 | Maryland | 163,000 |
| 19 | New Jersey | 162,300 |
| 20 | Missouri | 160,500 |
| 21 | Wisconsin | 157,500 |
| 22 | Louisiana | 152,900 |
| 23 | Minnesota | 148,600 |
| 24 | Utah | 146,000 |
| 25 | South Carolina | 128,900 |
| 26 | Nevada | 116,800 |
| 27 | Oregon | 113,700 |
| 28 | Alabama | 113,600 |
| 29 | Kentucky | 93,800 |
| 30 | Oklahoma | 93,500 |
| 31 | Iowa | 87,700 |
| 32 | Kansas | 77,800 |
| 33 | Idaho | 77,100 |
| 34 | Nebraska | 68,600 |
| 35 | Arkansas | 67,700 |
| 36 | Connecticut | 66,500 |
| 37 | New Mexico | 57,600 |
| 38 | Mississippi | 55,900 |
| 39 | Montana | 37,200 |
| 40 | Maine | 35,200 |
| 41 | West Virginia | 34,600 |
| 42 | New Hampshire | 31,300 |
| 43 | North Dakota | 31,200 |
| 44 | South Dakota | 30,500 |
| 45 | Wyoming | 24,000 |
| 46 | Rhode Island | 22,000 |
| 47 | Alaska | 18,500 |
| 48 | Vermont | 16,500 |