- The middle half earn between $34.45 and $50.98 an hour.
- Missouri ranks 13th of the 50 states and DC for median pay in this trade.
- Missouri pays more than 7 of its 8 neighboring states.
- BLS counts about 13,330 construction supervisors on payrolls in Missouri.
- At the state median wage, a contracting business needs to bill about $144.49 an hour on the labor rate calculator's starting numbers.
Construction Supervisor pay in Missouri, bottom to top
BLS calls this group first-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers: the foremen and crew leads who run the work on site.
| Pay level | Hourly | Yearly | National hourly |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $27.52 | $57,240 | $25.62 |
| 25th percentile | $34.45 | $71,650 | $30.48 |
| Median | $42.08 | $87,520 | $38.42 |
| 75th percentile | $50.98 | $106,040 | $48.78 |
| 90th percentile | $57.83 | $120,280 | $61.66 |
| Average (mean) | $42.55 | $88,490 | $41.56 |
Pay is bunched up in Missouri. The top tenth earn $57.83 an hour or more, about 2.1 times the $27.52 at the bottom tenth. Nationally that gap is 2.4 times, so the step from the bottom of the scale to the top is shorter here than in most places.
The floor is higher than nationally ($27.52 against $25.62) but the ceiling is lower ($57.83 against $61.66), which squeezes pay toward the middle.
The average, $42.55, is close to the median, so pay sits fairly evenly around the middle.
How Missouri compares with other states
Over a full year, the Missouri median of $87,520 is $7,600 more than the national $79,920.
In the state ranking, Missouri sits 13th, between Connecticut ($44.36) and the District of Columbia ($41.60). The range runs from $29.44 in Arkansas to $52.68 in Washington.
Against its neighboring states, Missouri is in the middle: Illinois pays more, and Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Tennessee pay less.
These are wages as paid, not adjusted for what it costs to live in Missouri. Rent, home prices and taxes decide how far a higher wage goes.
| Neighboring state | Median hourly | Median yearly | Against Missouri |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | $42.08 | $87,520 | |
| Arkansas | $29.44 | $61,230 | −$12.64 an hour |
| Illinois | $50.84 | $105,750 | +$8.76 an hour |
| Iowa | $37.75 | $78,510 | −$4.33 an hour |
| Kansas | $36.91 | $76,780 | −$5.17 an hour |
| Kentucky | $35.33 | $73,490 | −$6.75 an hour |
| Nebraska | $36.33 | $75,570 | −$5.75 an hour |
| Oklahoma | $35.11 | $73,040 | −$6.97 an hour |
| Tennessee | $35.81 | $74,470 | −$6.27 an hour |
How many construction supervisors work in Missouri
About 13,330 construction supervisors work on payrolls in Missouri, 1.6% of the 812,210 nationwide, the 25th largest count among the states.
That is 4.5 of every 1,000 jobs in Missouri, close to the trade's share of jobs nationally.
What a contracting business in Missouri should charge
Higher wages in Missouri go straight into the price. Take a contracting business in Missouri paying the state median of $42.08 and run it through the labor rate calculator with its starting numbers (40-hour weeks, 10 paid days off, 2 unbilled hours a day, 7.65% payroll taxes, $90,000 a year of overhead and 15% profit).
| Step | Math | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Paid hours | 40 × 52 | 2,080 |
| Hours at work | 2,080 − 10 days × 8 | 2,000 |
| Billable hours | 2,000 × 6 ÷ 8 | 1,500 |
| Labor cost | $42.08 × 2,080 × 1.0765 | $94,222 |
| Break-even rate | ($94,222 + $90,000) ÷ 1,500 | $122.81 |
| Rate with 15% profit | $122.81 ÷ 0.85 | $144.49 |
That is $144.49 per billable hour, 3.4 times the wage, and $6.43 more than the $138.06 the same math gives at the national median wage.
Paying the 75th percentile instead, $50.98 in Missouri, to hire and keep experienced people raises the rate to $160.12.
At this wage the pay itself is the biggest part of the price, so every raise shows up in the rate: a dollar more an hour adds about $1.76 per billed hour.
Run it with your own numbers in the labor rate calculator. It is free and shows every step.
Where these numbers come from
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.
The figures are the BLS state estimates for SOC 47-1011, first-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers, across all industries, read straight from the May 2025 state data file. They cover wage and salary workers, not the self-employed. Where BLS did not publish a figure, this page leaves it out.
All states in one table: construction supervisor salary by state.