Central Ohio gained 6,100 construction jobs over the past year, more than any other U.S. city except Dallas and New York

Columbus is third amongst major U.S. metro areas for new construction jobs created in the last year, trailing only New York City and Dallas with 6,100 jobs between May 2022 and May 2023.

There are 54,700 construction workers in Columbus today according to the AGC, up from 48,600 last year.

But mass retirements and resignations from the Baby Boomer generation have left the U.S. in a nationwide construction worker shortage. Ohio has about 100,000 skilled trade workers within its 137 different trade unions. To keep up with the increased demand for work, the trades council is doubling, even tripling their recruitment efforts, as Intel isn’t the only major construction project in the state that they need to supply.

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