TODAY'S SIGNAL
U.S. construction added 22,000 jobs in August. A new AGC/NCCER survey of 1,830 industry respondents found that worker shortages delayed projects for 42% of respondents. Among firms that had worked on data centers in the past year, 58% said those projects increased competition for skilled workers and 49% reported added wage pressure.
This is national voluntary-survey evidence, not a Texas labor-cost estimate, and AGC is an industry association with a policy interest. For Texas contractors, it is a prompt to test labor assumptions by project type—not evidence that local wages, subcontractor availability or schedules have changed.
The decision implication is to price crew, subcontractor and schedule exposure by project type rather than infer Texas conditions from the general construction cycle or this survey alone.
The honest limit
This is national voluntary-survey evidence, not a Texas labor-cost estimate, and AGC is an industry association with a policy interest.
Texas-specific craft vacancy, wage and subcontractor-availability evidence. Whether Sept. 2–3 TxDOT apparent low bids become executed awards and backlog. Whether ERCOT’s Oct. 6 SB6 workshop changes timing or operating obligations for large-load projects.
Pilot boundary: Public prototype review copy only. It is not professional advice or an approved service offering.
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