Construction Managers

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We rate jobs using four factors. These are:

- Chance of being automated
- Job growth
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- Volume of available positions

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Risk & user votes

Calculated automation risk

11% (Minimal Risk)

Minimal Risk (0-20%): This occupation appears difficult to replace end-to-end with current or near-future automation, including AI software and robotics. Roles in this range usually depend on human judgement, creativity, care, leadership, specialist expertise, or adapting to messy real-world situations. AI and machines may still change parts of the work, but the occupation is likely to remain a distinct human role.

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Human strengths important in this job

These are human abilities and work contexts that are important in this occupation. They may help explain why parts of the role are harder to replace end-to-end, but they are not the only inputs into the automation score.

Coordinating others’ work

Very important
Why this matters
Bringing people together, assigning tasks, and keeping a group aligned so work gets done.
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Decision-making and problem solving

Very important
Why this matters
Analyze information, weigh tradeoffs, and choose the best solution—especially when situations are ambiguous, high-stakes, or have real-world consequences.
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Communicating with people outside the organization

Very important
Why this matters
Represents the organization to customers, the public, or government—handling questions, concerns, and relationship-building through conversations, writing, calls, or email.
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Assisting and caring for others

Quite important
Why this matters
Provide hands-on help, emotional support, or personal care to people—work that depends on empathy, trust, and responding to individual needs in the moment.
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Negotiation

Quite important
Why this matters
Bringing people together to reconcile differences, trade off priorities, and reach agreements—work that depends on trust, persuasion, and reading the situation.
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Thinking creatively

Quite important
Why this matters
Coming up with original ideas and designs—creating new concepts, products, systems, or artistic work. This kind of open-ended invention and taste-based judgment is harder to automate end-to-end than routine, rule-based tasks.
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Social perceptiveness

Quite important
Why this matters
Noticing others’ emotions and reactions in the moment and adjusting what you say or do based on why they’re responding that way.
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Coaching and developing others

Quite important
Why this matters
Helps people learn and improve through coaching, mentoring, and feedback. This relies on trust, motivation, and adapting guidance to each person—work that’s hard to replace end-to-end with automation.
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Developing objectives and strategies

Quite important
Why this matters
Sets long-term goals and chooses strategies and actions to reach them, weighing tradeoffs and adapting plans as conditions change.
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Active learning

Quite important
Why this matters
Keeps learning from new information and applying it to make better decisions now and in the future, especially when situations change.
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Operations analysis

Quite important
Why this matters
Figure out what people need and what a product must do, then translate those requirements into a workable design.
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What users think

Based on 332 votes

24% chance of full automation within the next two decades

Our visitors have voted there's a low chance this occupation will be automated. This assessment is further supported by the calculated automation risk level, which estimates 11% chance of automation.

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What is the likelihood that Construction Managers will be replaced by robots or artificial intelligence within the next 20 years?

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Pay & outlook

Wages

Very high paid relative to other professions

In 2024, the median annual wage for Construction Managers was $106,980 ($51 per hour).

The median annual wage for Construction Managers was 116.1% higher than the national median annual wage, which stood at $49,500.

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Wages over time

* Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Growth

Very fast growth relative to other professions

The number of 'Construction Managers' job openings is expected to rise 8.7% by 2034

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Total employment, and estimated job openings

* Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the period between 2023 and 2033
Updated projections are due 09-2025.

Volume

Significantly greater range of job opportunities compared to other professions

As of 2024 there were 348,330 people employed as 'Construction Managers' within the United States.

This represents around 0.23% of the employed workforce across the country

Put another way, around 1 in 442 people are employed as 'Construction Managers'.

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What people are saying (13)

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Matthew Morrison (Low)
20 Apr 2026 15:36
Too complex of a job, it needs social interaction
ianto (Low)
22 Jul 2025 06:03
its really hard for robots to build and will take alot of programming and percisant survalece for falling objects
Nicolas Saez (No chance)
24 May 2024 00:38
This job requires a lot of habilities that will be difficult to copy by a robot.
Cesar (Moderate)
08 Oct 2022 01:05
I believe that automation should be implemented with construction machines. Additionally, software and A.I create more advantages for companies by reducing the time needed to make a forecast in Excel.

However, to input data, select the most important data, and analyze them, human capital is required to do that work.
Tanvir Ahmed (Low)
11 Aug 2020 20:04
Project Manager specially in construction field is somehow creative as well as not as usual monotonous job. You have to face different issues each and every day in the project and all those issues are new in nature.
Jim C.
09 Oct 2025 04:41
Construction is going to change. Pre-fab and 3D manufactured homes galore. Incomes are going down across the board with AI (way more fired than hired) so it stands to reason that homes will be need to become smaller or cheaply put together (consolidating roles). Population collapse also won't help construction demand.
AC (Low)
01 Dec 2022 00:37
Existing systems make automation complicated
Matt (No chance)
14 Mar 2021 02:14
Daily problems that robots can't comprehend
chirs (No chance)
01 Oct 2020 19:40
The decisions you have to make not only for the safety of your workers but the safety of the public is far too complex to be handled by a AI
GT
16 Nov 2021 22:49
If in the site you don't have human workers, but only robots. You don't need the construction manager.
Kyaw Thura Swe (Highly likely)
08 Jun 2019 09:44
Professional management is very important in our life, everything needs management. Management skill make me to improve the professional life.
Barry Eck
19 Feb 2024 14:31
In 20 years 🤖 will change entire construction and ALL industries and our lives; We will not be using the means and methods currently being used to almost everything.
Robots don’t get tired, need breaks for mental health days/ holidays.
In many trends the US is last to except change with the Freedom of Choice.
The change(s) start on the Left coast then move to East coast and then fill into the less technological advanced sectors. Bear in the bounties may be transparent.
Does China now lead the world in AI?
Matthew
20 Apr 2026 15:40
What about specifically Construction Management?
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Job description

Plan, direct, or coordinate, usually through subordinate supervisory personnel, activities concerned with the construction and maintenance of structures, facilities, and systems. Participate in the conceptual development of a construction project and oversee its organization, scheduling, budgeting, and implementation. Includes managers in specialized construction fields, such as carpentry or plumbing.

O*NET-SOC code: 11-9021.00