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Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in the construction of highways (including elevated), streets, roads, airport runways, public sidewalks, or bridges. The work performed may include new work, reconstruction, rehabilitation, and repairs. It has no schema of its own: companies here are mapped on the Construction schema, and what it does not cover is recorded as gaps.

Baseline
Construction v2
Inherited from
Construction
Companies mapped
0 of 0
Primitives
22 in 5 parts
Last updated
Nov 2, 2026

The numbers for this industry

United States · 2023 · NAICS 237310
Establishments
9,256
Employees
314,940
Annual payroll
$31B
Payroll per employee
$98.6K
Establishments by number of employees
  • 1-43,354
  • 5-91,485
  • 10-191,366
  • 1000+16
  • 20-491,605
  • 50-99742
  • 100-249512
  • 250-499135
  • 500-99941

Source: US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023 (national file), employees as of mid-March 2023, payroll for the year; published 2025-06-26. Coded on NAICS 2017. Withheld cells read as not published.

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