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Construction Managers

SOC 11-9021 · 2024-2034

Plan, direct, or coordinate, usually through subordinate supervisory personnel, activities concerned with the construction and maintenance of structures, facilities, and systems. Participate in the conceptual development of a construction project and oversee its organization, scheduling, budgeting, and implementation. Includes managers in specialized construction fields, such as carpentry or plumbing.

How the U.S. Department of Labor describes this work. Published in English only.

What California expects of this job

Typical pay in California
$135,394per year
Projected openings
47,800
Projected change
+10.9%
Usually needs
Bachelor's degree

Bright Outlook — a U.S. Department of Labor designation
Rapid Growth

The Department's own designation, made from its national projections. It is not this project's assessment and it is not California's: every other figure on this page comes from California's projection, which can point the other way and for some occupations does.

Skills this work uses most

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, rates how important each of these is to this work, and they are listed in that order, most important first. The ratings themselves are not shown, because the data carries the number without the scale it was measured on. The names are as published, in English.

  1. Judgment and Decision Making
  2. Management of Personnel Resources
  3. Critical Thinking
  4. Complex Problem Solving
  5. Time Management
  6. Active Listening

Pay by region

RegionTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openings
San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties)$169,1413,220
Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties)$156,7224,140
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties)$154,7983,000
San Rafael MD (Marin County)$142,585420
El Centro MSA (Imperial County)$136,454100
Napa MSA (Napa County)$135,843240
Vallejo MSA (Solano County)$134,325570
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County)$131,8628,660
Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County)$131,0251,190
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County)$130,7605,700
Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County)$130,3766,350
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties)$129,4464,020
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County)$128,642800
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County)$128,560430
San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County)$126,768390
Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County)$125,260770
Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties)$124,822150
Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties)$122,989150
Merced MSA (Merced County)$122,429150
Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County)$122,429490
Hanford-Corcoran MSA (Kings County)$121,53270
Salinas MSA (Monterey County)$120,269270
Chico MSA (Butte County)$119,424140
Redding MSA (Shasta County)$117,499140
North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties)$116,154290
Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties)$112,4571,260
Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County)$111,785950
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties)$109,4225,740
Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County)$108,862270
North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties)$108,302250
Visalia MSA (Tulare County)$105,663300

What the pay actually ranges across

The lowest-paid tenth earn under
$83,477
A quarter earn under
$104,504
Half earn under
$135,394
Three quarters earn under
$170,890
The highest-paid tenth earn over
$215,526

A median is one point. These are the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2026 figures for California, and they say how far apart the people doing this job actually are. Read them as the spread across everyone already in the work — not as a starting wage and not as a promise about where anyone lands.

Similar work

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, names these as occupations involving work similar to this one — its own reading of the job, not a grouping by code. They keep O*NET's order, and only those California publishes a projection for are shown.

OccupationTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openingsProjected change
Civil Engineers$125,92938,210+8.2%
First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers$100,32668,670+8%
Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians$85,8276,450+4.1%
Construction and Building Inspectors$104,03414,650+2.1%
Architects, Except Landscape and Naval$111,5789,910+7.5%
Project Management Specialists$122,93889,550+6.8%

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