- The middle half earn between $28.29 and $43.12 an hour.
- Texas is 45th of the 50 states and DC, in the bottom ten for this trade.
- Texas pays more than 2 of its 4 neighboring states.
- BLS counts about 90,010 construction supervisors on payrolls in Texas.
- At the state median wage, a contracting business needs to bill about $133.51 an hour on the labor rate calculator's starting numbers.
Construction Supervisor pay in Texas, 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 | $23.08 | $48,000 | $25.62 |
| 25th percentile | $28.29 | $58,830 | $30.48 |
| Median | $35.83 | $74,520 | $38.42 |
| 75th percentile | $43.12 | $89,680 | $48.78 |
| 90th percentile | $52.63 | $109,460 | $61.66 |
| Average (mean) | $36.84 | $76,630 | $41.56 |
From the bottom tenth ($23.08) to the top tenth ($52.63), the top of the scale pays about 2.3 times the bottom in Texas, close to the 2.4 times spread for construction supervisors nationwide.
Both ends trail the national figures. The bottom tenth earn $2.54 an hour less than the bottom tenth nationally, and the top tenth $9.03 less than the national top tenth.
The average, $36.84, is close to the median, so pay sits fairly evenly around the middle.
How Texas compares with other states
Over a full year, the Texas median of $74,520 is $5,400 less than the national $79,920.
In the state ranking, Texas sits 45th, between New Mexico ($36.12) and Tennessee ($35.81). The range runs from $29.44 in Arkansas to $52.68 in Washington.
Against its neighboring states, Texas is in the middle: Louisiana and New Mexico pay more, and Arkansas and Oklahoma pay less.
BLS wages are not adjusted for living costs. Lower pay often comes with lower housing costs, so the gap in take-home value can be smaller than the gap in wages.
| Neighboring state | Median hourly | Median yearly | Against Texas |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | $35.83 | $74,520 | |
| Arkansas | $29.44 | $61,230 | −$6.39 an hour |
| Louisiana | $36.23 | $75,360 | +$0.40 an hour |
| New Mexico | $36.12 | $75,130 | +$0.29 an hour |
| Oklahoma | $35.11 | $73,040 | −$0.72 an hour |
How many construction supervisors work in Texas
BLS estimates 90,010 construction supervisors on payrolls in Texas, 11.1% of the 812,210 nationwide. No other state has more.
The trade is a bigger part of the local job market than it is nationally: 6.4 of every 1,000 jobs in Texas, 1.2 times the national share.
What a contracting business in Texas should charge
A lower wage helps the price less than you might expect, because the overhead does not shrink with it. Here is a contracting business in Texas paying the state median of $35.83, on the labor rate calculator's 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 | $35.83 × 2,080 × 1.0765 | $80,228 |
| Break-even rate | ($80,228 + $90,000) ÷ 1,500 | $113.49 |
| Rate with 15% profit | $113.49 ÷ 0.85 | $133.51 |
That is $133.51 per billable hour, 3.7 times the wage, and $4.55 less than the $138.06 the same math gives at the national median wage.
Paying the 75th percentile instead, $43.12 in Texas, to hire and keep experienced people raises the rate to $146.31.
A cheaper crew saves less than it seems: at the 25th percentile wage of $28.29, the rate only drops to $120.27.
Overhead, at $60 of every billed hour, and the unbilled hours move this rate more than a raise does. A dollar more in wages adds about $1.76 to the rate.
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.