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Construction employment on Long Island decreased for the second straight month in July, after rising every month since August 2022.
Nassau and Suffolk counties lost 2,300 construction jobs from July 2022 to July 2023, a 3 percent year-over-year drop, falling from 84,300 to 82,000, according to a report from the Associated General Contractors of America.
Regionally, the number of construction jobs in New York City was up 9 percent, gaining 13,400 jobs from July 2022 to July 2023, rising from 144,100 to 157,500, the second largest jobs increase in the country.
Construction employment in the Orange/Rockland/Westchester area dropped by 1 percent, losing 300 jobs from July 2022 to July 2023, falling from 46,500 to 46,200.
Between July 2022 and July 2023, construction employment rose in 226 out of 358 metro areas, according to the AGCA report.
Association officials said demand for many types of construction remained strong in most parts of the country, but firms still have hundreds of thousands of unfilled construction positions.
“Demand for construction projects remains strong nationwide and most metros have continued to add construction jobs in the past year,” Ken Simonson, the association’s chief economist, said in an AGCA statement. “But there were 378,000 unfilled job openings in construction at the end of July, which suggests that even more markets would have posted year-over-year employment increases if there were enough qualified workers to fill the openings.”
Metro areas adding the most construction jobs over the last year include the Dallas area, which gained 18,100 jobs for a 12 percent rise; the Portland, Ore. area, adding 9,700 for an 12 percent gain; and the Atlanta area, which added 6,600 jobs for a 4 percent gain.
The metro areas seeing the largest drops in construction employment from July 2022 to July 2023 include the Miami area, which lost 4,100 jobs for an 8 percent drop; the St. Louis area, losing 2,100 jobs for a 3 percent decrease; and the Los Angeles area, which dropped 2,100 jobs for a 1 percent decline.
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David Winzelberg
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