Construction & Real Estate: jobs, conferences and layoffs

Builders, developers, brokerages and property managers. Construction & Real Estate has about 5,734 verified open jobs on NextChapter right now, with a typical posted salary of $115,000 a year. About 28% of openings are entry or early-career level. Payroll employment in the closest BLS sector is up 1.5% over the past year (October 2026). 72 layoff notices were filed in the last 12 months. 135 conferences are tagged to it, 95 with dates announced.

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Construction & Real Estate market snapshot

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Verified open jobs
about 5,734

Source: NextChapter job data, jobs verified live in the last 7 days.

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Typical posted salary
$115,000 a year (middle half $84,000 to $160,000)

Source: NextChapter job data: salary ranges employers posted, midpoint of each range, 1,281 of the newest 5,000 verified open jobs.

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Entry or early-career level
28% of openings

Source: NextChapter job data: level read from the full posting, newest 5,000 verified open jobs.

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Ask for AI skills
3% of openings

Source: NextChapter job data: AI-skill tagger on the posting text, newest 5,000 verified open jobs.

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Remote
4% of openings

Source: NextChapter job data, newest 5,000 verified open jobs.

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Employment, year over year
+1.5% in construction, the closest BLS sector

Source: BLS Current Employment Statistics, seasonally adjusted payroll employment, October 2026.

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Job openings rate
3.4% of jobs, against 2.4% a year earlier (construction, the closest BLS sector)

Source: BLS Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, seasonally adjusted, September 2026.

Layoffs and discharges rate
1.6% of employment, against 2.3% a year earlier (construction, the closest BLS sector)

Source: BLS Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, seasonally adjusted, September 2026.

Hires rate
4.3% of employment, against 4.1% a year earlier (construction, the closest BLS sector)

Source: BLS Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, seasonally adjusted, September 2026.

Layoff notices, Construction & Real Estate
72 notices naming 2,935 workers

Source: State WARN filings collected by NextChapter, last 12 months.

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States with the most notices
CA (29), NY (8), MD (6)

Source: State WARN filings collected by NextChapter, last 12 months.

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Most recent notice
Nov 3, 2026

Source: State WARN filings collected by NextChapter.

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Conferences in the catalog for Construction & Real Estate
135, 95 with dates announced

Source: NextChapter conference catalog, checked against each event’s own site.

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Next conference
Trimble Dimensions, Nov 9, 2026

Source: NextChapter conference catalog.

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Median published ticket price
$750

Source: NextChapter conference catalog, lowest published price, 30 conferences with a price.

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Open calls for speakers
15 conferences

Source: NextChapter conference catalog.

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Skills most often named in openings

  1. 1. excel9%
  2. 2. logistics4%
  3. 3. project management4%
  4. 4. budgeting4%
  5. 5. yardi3%
  6. 6. procurement3%
  7. 7. onboarding3%
  8. 8. audit3%

States with the most openings

  1. 1. CA14%
  2. 2. TX13%
  3. 3. NY7%
  4. 4. FL7%
  5. 5. IL5%

What Construction & Real Estate pays

Advertised pay on live postings that state it, annual in US dollars.

  • Real estate: median $102,500, middle half $77,500 to $138,000 (1,136 postings).

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Construction & Real Estate outlook: Building

Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers, not from our own postings. It describes the industry nationally, not any one employer.

  • Employment up 1.5% over the year in construction
  • Job openings rate 3.4%, up 1.0 points from a year ago
  • Layoffs rate 1.6%, down 0.7 points from a year ago

Where Construction & Real Estate ranks

Where Construction & Real Estate placed in our monthly rankings, month by month. Each month stays online at its own address.

November 2026

Open Construction & Real Estate jobs

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Construction & Real Estate conferences

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Showing 60 of 135 conferences, 95 with dates announced.

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Construction & Real Estate layoffs by state

Layoff notices filed in the last 12 months.

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