• While overall employment in the State of New Hampshire increased 8.36% between 1997 and 2002, employment within the construction industry rose by 47.82%, creating 10,851 new construction jobs as well as creating 710 new construction establishments in 5 years.

• While the average worker in New Hampshire brought home $32,965 in pay in 2002, the state’s construction workers made on average $37,192, an increase of 11.37% more than the average worker in New Hampshire. 

• Construction employees in New Hampshire made $37,192 on average in 2002, compared to $35,352, the national average salary in 2002 for construction workers across the United States.

• In the five years between 1997 and 2002, the average salary for employees in New Hampshire increased by 24.09%, while the average salary for construction workers in New Hampshire increased by 24.48%. 

• Construction workers in New Hampshire saw a salary increase of 24.48% from 1997-2002, compared to the average salary increase construction workers across the United States, which increased by 14.97%. 

• The number of businesses in New Hampshire grew from 30,452 in 1997 to 31,762 in 2002, an increase of 4.30%.  Construction establishments in New Hampshire however, increased by 19.27% from 3,684 in 1997 to 4,394 in 2002.

• Of the 1,310 new businesses established between 1997 and 2002 in New Hampshire, 710 or 54.20% of those establishments were in the construction industry.

• According to Union Membership and Coverage Database, available at www.unionstats.com, in 2006, only 9.6 percent of New Hampshire’s private construction workforce belonged to a construction trade union.  That means that approximately 90 out of 100 New Hampshire’s private construction workers do not belong to a labor union.

Data are from the U.S. Bureau of the Census except where noted.

• New Hampshire is not a prevailing wage state.