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What general contractors make
Median
$101,000
Lower end
$65,000
Upper end
$174,000
Job Bank's national median is $48.72 an hour, about $101,000 a year at 40 hours a week. Job Bank files general contractors under construction managers, which includes salaried site superintendents and project managers. The lower and upper ends ($31.25 and $83.76 an hour) are the bottom and top of the range for everyone in the group. These are wages: what a self-employed contractor keeps is the company's profit, which can be a loss in a bad year.