Estimators and Project Managers get lumped together often enough; both are office-and-field hybrid roles, both sit between the field and the client, and both are considered “core” hires on any build. But the numbers in our 2026 Construction Compensation Report tell two different stories about pay and hiring difficulty. Project Managers earn more and take…
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Every hiring manager has felt it: a search that should take a week and a half stretches into a month, and nobody can quite explain why. In Q2 2026, the data gave us a clear example. A New York associate attorney search took 30 days to close, the single longest search of any role, in any…
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A controller in San Francisco and a controller in a mid-sized Midwest market can have nearly identical job descriptions and wildly different paychecks. That’s not an accident of one company overpaying; it’s a pattern. In 2026, controller placements in San Francisco are averaging $234,000, and Boston placements are averaging $225,500, against a national controller average…
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Every role in construction has gotten more expensive to hire for over the past few years. But no title has pulled away from the pack quite like Vice President of Construction. Across our 2026 Construction Compensation Report, the average role-wide salary sits at $117,459. VPs of Construction are averaging $212,000, nearly double that baseline, and…
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Associate attorney searches were the priciest and slowest-moving of any role we placed in Q2 2026, and the market data explains why. If you’re building comp bands for an associate attorney hire this year, a single national number won’t cut it. Market matters, and the spread between metros is wide enough to blow a budget…
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Ask five different accountants what a promotion is worth and you’ll get five different answers. The truth is more concrete than most people think. Across the accounting and finance function in 2026, there’s a clear, dollar-and-cents ladder connecting a first accounting job to the controller’s office — and the jumps between rungs aren’t even. Some…
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Ten point eight billion dollars. That’s the price tag the Home Builders Institute put on the skilled labor shortage in its Fall 2025 Construction Labor Market Report, a single-year estimate of what scarce trade labor is costing the residential building industry. It’s the kind of headline number that’s easy to skim past. But for a…
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If you hired a paralegal this year, you weren’t alone, and you probably weren’t fast enough to beat the market either. Paralegals were the single most-placed role across our Q2 2026 legal search activity, and the compensation data behind those placements gives hiring managers a real benchmark to plan against, not just a guess pulled…
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If you’ve ever wondered why your CFO search seems to drag on long after your controller or FP&A hires wrapped up, the data backs up the frustration. Across the accounting and finance function, the average open role takes 10.2 days to fill. A CFO search takes 34.1 days, more than three times longer, and in…
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Of every hire on a residential or commercial build, few carry as much weight as the superintendent. They’re the person keeping trades, timelines, and safety on track, the difference between a project that closes on schedule and one that doesn’t. So it’s no surprise that superintendent pay has climbed hard over the past two years,…
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