Led by gains in the residential sector, the pace of construction’s recent jobs gains picked up somewhat in September as the industry added 26,000 jobs for the month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported.
The BLS employment report for September, released on Oct. 2, also shows that construction’s unemployment rate improved, to 7.1% from August’s 7.6%. But it remains more than twice as high as the year-earlier rate of 3.2%.