- The middle half earn between $34.99 and $49.13 an hour.
- Vermont ranks 17th of the 50 states and DC for median pay in this trade.
- Vermont pays more than 1 of its 3 neighboring states.
- BLS counts about 1,010 construction supervisors on payrolls in Vermont.
- At the state median wage, a contracting business needs to bill about $140.24 an hour on the labor rate calculator's starting numbers.
Construction Supervisor pay in Vermont, 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 | $29.75 | $61,870 | $25.62 |
| 25th percentile | $34.99 | $72,780 | $30.48 |
| Median | $39.66 | $82,490 | $38.42 |
| 75th percentile | $49.13 | $102,180 | $48.78 |
| 90th percentile | $59.82 | $124,420 | $61.66 |
| Average (mean) | $42.77 | $88,960 | $41.56 |
Pay is bunched up in Vermont. The top tenth earn $59.82 an hour or more, about 2 times the $29.75 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 ($29.75 against $25.62) but the ceiling is lower ($59.82 against $61.66), which squeezes pay toward the middle.
The average wage, $42.77, sits 8% above the median. A smaller group of higher earners pulls the average up, so the median is the better guide to what a typical construction supervisor makes.
How Vermont compares with other states
Over a full year the gap to the national median is small: $82,490 in Vermont against $79,920 nationally, $2,570 more.
In the state ranking, Vermont sits 17th, between Indiana ($39.68) and Nevada ($39.42). The range runs from $29.44 in Arkansas to $52.68 in Washington.
Against its neighboring states, Vermont is in the middle: Massachusetts and New York pay more, and New Hampshire pays less.
| Neighboring state | Median hourly | Median yearly | Against Vermont |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vermont | $39.66 | $82,490 | |
| Massachusetts | $47.04 | $97,850 | +$7.38 an hour |
| New Hampshire | $39.05 | $81,220 | −$0.61 an hour |
| New York | $46.01 | $95,700 | +$6.35 an hour |
How many construction supervisors work in Vermont
Vermont has one of the smaller workforces in the trade: 1,010 construction supervisors on payrolls, 0.1% of the 812,210 nationwide.
It is a smaller part of local jobs than in most of the country, at 3.3 per 1,000 jobs, 0.64 times the national share.
What a contracting business in Vermont should charge
Say you run a contracting business in Vermont and pay the state median of $39.66 an hour. Here is the labor rate calculator's math on 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 | $39.66 × 2,080 × 1.0765 | $88,803 |
| Break-even rate | ($88,803 + $90,000) ÷ 1,500 | $119.20 |
| Rate with 15% profit | $119.20 ÷ 0.85 | $140.24 |
That is $140.24 per billable hour, 3.5 times the wage, and $2.18 more than the $138.06 the same math gives at the national median wage.
Paying the 75th percentile instead, $49.13 in Vermont, to hire and keep experienced people raises the rate to $156.87.
A cheaper crew saves less than it seems: at the 25th percentile wage of $34.99, the rate only drops to $132.04.
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.