Make Confident Construction Pay Decisions Across Projects and Locations
Strong projects start with the people who plan, build, and lead them. ERI provides current construction compensation data and intelligent tools that help teams evaluate base salaries and adjustments for specialized skills or certifications. Organizations can compete for skilled talent, account for regional pay differences, and maintain consistent compensation practices for job sites, offices, and infrastructure operations.
With ERI, you can:
- Stay competitive for skilled trades and project leaders with current construction salary data by role and location.
- Build defensible pay grades and salary ranges matching roles to relevant benchmarks based on job responsibilities, experience level, organization size, and location.
- Manage compensation costs by comparing geographic differentials and modeling compensation for projects in different labor markets.
Organizations Building Better Pay with ERI
A Better Blueprint for Construction Compensation
How Can Employers Benchmark Specialized Construction Roles?
Use ERI’s Salary Assessor to benchmark specialized construction roles by location, industry, organization size, and experience. Refine analyses for credentials and qualifications such as PMP certification, journeyman trade certifications, and U.S. Government Secret clearance, then compare relevant market percentiles to set defensible rates.
Find the Right Job Match Faster
Construction job titles can vary between contractors and projects, making direct market matches difficult. ERI’s AI Job Matching suggests relevant ERI roles, while the AI Evaluate feature explains the reasoning behind each suggestion and gives compensation teams support in comparing internal job duties with ERI role descriptions. Compensation teams review and select the final match, supporting faster and more consistent market pricing across jobs, levels, and project teams.
Compare Pay Across Project Locations
ERI’s Geographic Assessor helps teams compare geographic salary differentials and customize cost-of-labor analyses by salary level. These insights support defensible salary ranges, appropriate pay for new locations, and workforce planning for offices, job sites, and expanding markets.
Bring Structure to Every Part of Construction Pay
Turn fragmented pay practices into a clear, scalable compensation framework. ERI’s Compensation Management features help teams create pay structures, maintain pay bands, compare employee pay with market data, and plan salary increases. Build greater consistency across projects and locations while retaining the flexibility required for different roles and labor markets.
Identify and Address Pay Compression
Higher hiring rates can help fill immediate openings but may leave frontline leaders too close to subordinate pay. ERI helps teams evaluate pay equity, uncover these internal pay relationships, and compare them with current market rates. Teams can then prioritize construction compensation adjustments that recognize experience without losing control of labor costs.
Plan Compensation for Public Works Projects
Wage requirements for government-funded projects can vary by occupation and location, influencing workforce budgets. ERI provides current construction compensation data and geographic labor-cost insights that help teams evaluate pay. This gives teams a more defensible basis for planning compensation on projects.
Bring Clarity to Construction Compensation Planning
Construction and Infrastructure Compensation FAQs
What can ERI help construction and infrastructure compensation teams do? 
Construction and infrastructure compensation teams must account for specialized roles, changing project locations, skilled-labor shortages, and complex wage requirements while maintaining workforce budgets. ERI provides market data and compensation tools that help teams:
- Benchmark salaries for skilled trades, project teams, engineers, and construction leaders
- Compare pay by industry, geographic location, experience, and organization size
- Streamline workflows using ERI’s AI-powered tools
- Refine analyses using skills, shift differentials, certification, and supervisory responsibility
- Build pay grades, salary ranges, and structured compensation plans
- Develop competitive executive compensation packages
- Identify pay equity concerns and salary compression
- Upload employee data, integrate with HRIS systems, and create executive-ready reports
Can ERI benchmark construction CEO compensation?
Yes. ERI’s Executive Compensation Assessor helps compensation committees and HR leaders benchmark construction CEO salary and total compensation against relevant industry, location, organization size, and planning date inputs. Users can also review available proxy and peer company information to support executive compensation planning and reporting.
How is ERI different from a construction compensation survey or salary guide?
A traditional construction compensation survey, construction salary survey, or salary guide generally presents market findings from a defined dataset or publication period. ERI combines regularly updated market data and intelligent compensation tools in one unified platform. Teams can move from benchmarking jobs to applying results directly to pay structures, equity reviews, and compensation planning.
Can ERI support heavy civil, public works, and data center construction?
Yes. ERI helps compensation teams benchmark specialized roles commonly found in heavy civil, public works, and data center construction, including civil engineers, equipment operators, inspectors, and electrical or project management positions.
Can ERI help build pay grades and plan construction salary increases?
Yes. The ERI Assessor Platform helps construction teams create and maintain market-based pay grades and salary ranges. Our AI Pay Grade Creation tool can generate a complete pay grade structure with jobs assigned to appropriate grades, which teams can customize for their workforce and geographic markets. Teams can also model salary increases and evaluate the budget impact of construction bonus programs, supporting more efficient workforce planning.
What construction and infrastructure job titles can ERI benchmark?
ERI covers project leadership, engineering, safety, skilled trades, and heavy-construction operations. Representative job titles include:
- Construction Project Manager
- Construction Manager
- Construction Superintendent
- Construction Estimator
- Construction Foreman
- Project Engineer
- Civil Engineer
- Structural Engineer
- Construction Inspector
- Construction Safety Manager
- Surveyor
- Electrician Journeyman
- Construction Equipment Operator
- Excavator Operator
- Tower Crane Operator
These are only a sample of the construction and infrastructure jobs available. Your team can also customize internal jobs and create weighted hybrid roles when responsibilities do not align with a standard title. Contact us for a complete list of available job titles.