Ken Simonson Chief Economist Associated General Contractors of America
Last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that construction employment in the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario metropolitan statistical area increased 2% to a total of 113,300 jobs from August 2021 to August 2022, Simonson says. “That trailed the increases for the U.S. during the same span, at 4.2%, and for the state, at 4.6%.”