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Home » Contractor Personnel Shortages Cause Huge Sellers’ Market for Top People
Contractors have more work than they have people to do the work. This has led to a desperate struggle by contractors to find and retain qualified managers, ratcheting up the pressure on salaries to unprecedented levels.
Contractors anticipate giving average salary increases of 3.97% in 2006, according to a survey by PAS Inc., a Saline, Mich.-based construction compensation consulting firm. “But we generally see actual increases go up at least a half percent by the end of the year,” says Jeffrey M. Robinson, president of PAS.