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Construction Labor Supply

1.8M contractor-license records across ten states — a supply-side census of the licensed contractor base.

Q2 2026DirectionalWorkforce Planning

Workforce Intelligence Lab · Sources: BLS OEWS · BLS QCEW

At a glance

ConfidenceDirectional

Executive Brief

Decision-ready summary for leadership review — directional bands only, no raw data exports.

1.8M contractor-license records across ten states — a supply-side census of the licensed contractor base.

Directional workforce intelligence for institutional planning — banded operational reads without exposing raw-data exports or proprietary model details.

Key Findings

What matters for the executive decision this publication supports.

01

8M contractor-license records across ten states

02

a supply-side census of the licensed contractor base

Full Report

Complete structured analysis with charts, rankings, and methodology confidence.

Situation Summary

1.8M contractor-license records across ten states — a supply-side census of the licensed contractor base.

Key Findings

  1. 8M contractor-license records across ten states
  1. a supply-side census of the licensed contractor base

Implications

Directional workforce intelligence for institutional planning — banded operational reads without exposing raw-data exports or proprietary model details.

Analysis

1.8M contractor-license records across ten states — a supply-side census of the licensed contractor base. This publication is approved for public distribution through the Workforce Intelligence Lab.

Interactive Visualizations

Charts, indicators, and comparative views — institutional evidence without raw record access.

Geographic comparison

Geographic comparison

1.8M contractor-license records across ten states — a supply-side census of the licensed contractor base. Institutional visualization — no raw-data exports.

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Methodology Summary

Source families, framework version, and confidence framing — not proprietary formulas or scoring weights.

Institutional workforce intelligence methodology with documented confidence tier, source-family transparency, and quarterly refresh cadence — not proprietary formulas or internal scoring logic.

Source families
BLS OEWS · BLS QCEW
Update cadence
Quarterly
Confidence
Directional

Methodology registry →

Executive Presentation

Slide-style summary for board and leadership review.

Slide 1

Situation Summary

1.8M contractor-license records across ten states — a supply-side census of the licensed contractor base.

Slide 2

Key Findings

1. 8M contractor-license records across ten states 2. a supply-side census of the licensed contractor base

Slide 3

Implications

Directional workforce intelligence for institutional planning — banded operational reads without exposing raw-data exports or proprietary model details.