This survey was conducted in July 2015 and was completed by 576 respondents from all market regions of North America. We have segmented the results against each of the 12 North American market regions. We also segmented the results between contractors and owners.
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Survey Results
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Of those 576, 22.7% were contractors and 77.3% were owners. Some 14.6% indicated they worked in capital construction only, some 44.6% indicated they worked in both capital and maintenance and 37.2 % indicated they worked in maintenance only.
Industrial Info is sending a second distribution in the next weeks and will update the results in late 2015 or early 2016. The survey includes participants from 12 market segments: Power, Oil/Gas Processing like LNG, Production, Terminals, Pipelines, Refining, Chemicals, Food/Beverage, Pharmaceutical and Manufacturing.
The highlights of the survey were:
- With all 12 market regions aggregate, contractors indicated that 76% of their workforce were travelers while owners indicated some 56%.
- In the New England area, respondents indicated the greatest populations of travelers. Some 38% of respondents indicated that 20% or more of the crew mix are travelers. In descending order of market region: Rocky Mountains, where 34% indicated crews of 20% or more travelers; the Northeast, also with 34%; and the Midwest, with 31%.
- In Canada, the Western Provinces indicated that some 41% of respondents indicated 20% or more travelers.
- The respondents indicated that the regions with the greatest anticipated wage increases were in the U.S. Southwest and Midwest regions, with some 6% over the next year.
- Over 50% of the respondents from Atlantic Canada and Ontario indicated that they anticipated wage increases of some 2% or more over the next year.
- In the Chemicals and Manufacturing, followed by Oil/Gas/Refining construction, markets respondents indicated the highest expected wage increases. In Chemicals, 13% of respondents indicated wage rate increases of some 6% to 10% or more over the next year. Pulp/Paper and Pharmaceutical markets had the least wage rate increases.
- Respondents from across all market regions (35%) indicated that the best crew mix is 70% journeymen and 30% apprentice, while 31% indicated an optimum crew mix of 80%/20%.
- 35% of all respondents indicated that "poor supervision" could lead to a loss of productivity of some 11-20%, which was the highest
- When asked about the timeline of a project and delays from on-site workforce density, the majority of respondents indicated that it leads to moderate-to-extreme delays from over a week and up to a month or more.
- Among contractors from across North America, some 60% indicated that they see the most labor shortages in capital construction. Among owners, some 60% indicated shortages in scheduled turnarounds/outages.
In addition to the "Labor and Productivity Survey," Industrial Info offers the commercial subscription-based "Labor Supply/Demand Analysis and Forecast" that also tracks wages and per diems for some 14 crafts in over 135 Metropolitan Areas across North America. Please contact Tony Salemme at tsalemme@industrialinfo.com for more information on this market intelligence.
Best Regards,
Tony Salemme
VP of Sales - Craft Labor Group
Phone: 209-547-9878
Email: tsalemme@industrialinfo.com
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