U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Associated Builders and Contractors

Construction job openings increased by 92,000 year-over-year in September.

Job openings in the construction industry reached 298,000 in September, according to the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey recently released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The figure represented a 36,000 increase in openings since August and 92,000 boost since September 2025.

“Nearly 200,000 construction workers quit their jobs in September,” Anirban Basu, chief economist at Associated Builders and Contractors, said in a statement . “That’s the most in any month since the first half of 2023 and a strong indication that the industry’s labor supply is once again tightening.”

Total separations, which include quits, layoffs, discharges and other separations, increased by 77,000 month-over-month, spurred by an increase of 46,000 in the quits category. On a yearly basis, quits are up 71,000.…