While metropolitan Chicago shed thousands of construction jobs in May, it was a different story in Indianapolis, where year-over-year job growth outpaced nearly every metro market in the nation, according to new data from Arlington, Va.-based Associated General Contractors of America (AGC).
The Indianapolis-Carmel market added 8,000 construction jobs in May, on top of the 6,100 jobs it added in April, AGC reports. Builders also are seeing improvement across the state, which ranked eighth in construction job growth in May.