2010 ARTBA Guide Benchmarks Salaries for 137 Occupational Titles
If you are in the transportation design and construction business and want to benchmark your firm’s annual salaries and hourly wages against your local, state and national competition, then a new product from ARTBA has just what you need.
The ARTBA U.S. Highway, Street & Bridge Construction Salary & Hourly Wage Guides utilize new(May 2010) U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) national survey data for 137 occupational titles that may be found in transportation design and construction market firms. The BLS project collected wage and salary information from all U.S. business sectors and includes data and estimates for 350,000 employees working at construction firms that classified their primary business as “highway, streets and bridges.”
Detailed guides are now available at www.artba.org/salaryguide for the nine U.S. Census regions, all 50 individual states and more than 600 metropolitan and local areas.
In the guides, for each occupation, you will find the average and median annual salary and hourly wage paid, as well as break-points for both at the 10th, 25th, 75th and 90th percentiles, where available. The break points mean that percentages of all workers in the occupational sample earn the amount listed or less. For example, if the 10th percentile for “clerical worker” lists $30,000, that means 10 percent of the clerical workers in the overall sample earned $30,000 or less annually; 90 percent earned more.
Each state guide is divided into three sections:
- The first provides a weighted-average picture of how all highway, street and bridge construction firms collectively in the United States are compensating their employees. This allows you to see how your firm’s compensation structure compares within the industry as a whole.
- The second shows what competing firms pay talent in a specific state or local area. These data are not highway, street and bridge construction firm-specific. They reflect what all business sectors within the state or local area are paying for individual occupations. In today’s employment marketplace, your competition for talent aren’t just the other transportation construction firms in the area… it is all other firms and public agencies in the area as well—regardless of the industry.
- The third section provides the detailed occupational definitions developed by the U.S. Department of Labor for each position documented. Individual transportation construction firms used these descriptions to complete their survey. Some occupational titles may not reflect the nomenclature usually used within our industry. For example, a “flagger” who controls traffic is identified as a “crossing guard.” The definition, however, makes clear that a “crossing guard” could include a construction worker directing traffic.
Each state guide is available for $150 for ARTBA members, $200 for non-members.
The regional guides provide the job descriptions and all business sectors state data only, for multiple states. Each regional guide retails for $200 for ARTBA members, $250 for non-members.
The local guides provide the job descriptions and all business sectors data only, for businesses in the specific metropolitan area or county. Each local guide retails for $100 for ARTBA members and $150 for non-members.
The guides can be purchased at the website listed above or by contacting Peter Embrey at 202.289.4434 or .
The 2010 salary and hourly wage guides were developed by an ARTBA economics research team led by Alison Premo Black, the association’s vice president of policy and senior economist. Ms. Black, an economics doctoral candidate at The George Washington University in the Nation’s Capital, holds an M.A. in International Economics and Latin American Studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.