Upward Mobility in Home Building Companies

The National Association of Home Builders' latest study identifies eight senior positions at home building companies that are filled by someone with experience in construction trades. Average annual compensation for each is at least $80,000.

The NAHB’s workforce development and training arm, the Home Builders Institute, posits that learning a construction trade can be the first step toward higher paying positions in construction businesses. The data show that 96 percent of builders with a full-time vice president of construction say the position is always filled by someone with experience in the construction trades, as do 89 percent of builders with the president/CEO position.

The data come from the Single-family Compensation Survey conducted in July 2017. The survey collected information from 308 single-family builders about full-time and part-time positions they have at their companies. When a company has one of the eight key positions full-time, the figure below shows how often it is filled by someone with hands-on experience in the construction trades.

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