{"id":25344,"date":"2023-04-11T05:21:09","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T09:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.construction.com\/?p=25344"},"modified":"2025-10-11T09:35:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T13:35:50","slug":"employment-in-construction-sector-falls-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.construction.com\/total-construction-starts\/employment-in-construction-sector-falls-in-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Employment in Construction Sector Falls in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Employment in Construction Sector Falls in March<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The latest jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the labor market may be cooling. Total nonfarm employment rose by 236,000 (seasonally adjusted) in March, the smallest monthly gain since a decline of 268,000 in December\u00a0<a>2020<\/a>. The construction industry lost\u00a09,000 jobs in March after posting successive monthly gains since February 2022, as employment in both nonresidential and residential construction declined by 1,800 and 7,000 jobs respectively. However, on a year-over-year basis construction employment grew by 2.5%, or an increase of 196,000 jobs.<\/p>\n<p>The nation\u2019s unemployment rate edged down to 3.5% in March, from 3.6% a month earlier, thanks to an uptick in the labor force participation rate. The construction unemployment rate also declined in March but remained elevated at 5.6%, highlighting continued labor shortages and the impact of the banking sector turmoil.<\/p>\n<p>At this point it\u2019s too early to say if the drop in construction employment is due to the issues facing the broader economy. However, with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.construction.com\/total-construction-starts\/dodge-momentum-index-drops-in-march\/\">planning queue slowing<\/a>, Dodge Construction Network starts will feel the strain as the year progresses, likely leading to weakness in construction employment.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25347\" src=\"https:\/\/www.construction.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-04-11-091136.png\" alt=\"Screenshot 2023 04 11 091136\" width=\"600\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.construction.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-04-11-091136.png 600w, https:\/\/www.construction.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-04-11-091136-300x187.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employment in Construction Sector Falls in March The latest jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the labor market may be cooling. Total nonfarm employment rose by 236,000 (seasonally adjusted) in March, the smallest monthly gain since a decline of 268,000 in December\u00a02020. The construction industry lost\u00a09,000 jobs in March after posting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":25373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-total-construction-starts"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Employment in Construction Sector Falls in March | Dodge Construction Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Construction sector employment falls sharply in March. 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