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What contractors and construction managers make
Median
$114,990
Bottom tenth
$69,690
Top tenth
$189,440
The national median is $114,990 a year, the bottom tenth earn $69,690 or less and the top tenth $189,440 or more, in the 2025 survey. The federal wage survey counts this as construction managers, which means salaried people running projects for a company. A self-employed contractor running their own jobs is mostly outside that figure and takes whatever the business makes, which can be far more or far less.